LEED - Green Building Applicability
Horner’s Long Life™ product is an excellent candidate to be submitted for a LEED Innovation & Design Process Credit, as it embodies the credit’s stated goal to recognize new technologies for their innovative building features and sustainable building techniques not currently addressed by existing LEED Credits.

Horner’s Long Life™ Flooring is more ecologically sound as it minimizes wood waste when a floor has reached maximum wear depth. This is accomplished by shifting the tongue and groove assembly down, resulting in a higher proportion of flooring thickness being dedicated to wear depth. Less lumber is consumed for 25/32" product, regardless of wear depth, than is consumed for 33/32" product.

Availbility
With ever-increasing sawmill focus being placed upon 4/4" rough-cut lumber, readily obtaining 5/4" lumber in a timely manner to produce 33/32" flooring has become tenuous at best.

Structural Stability
Horner’s Long Life™ 25/32" product has the same structural strength and dimensional stability required of regular 25/32" flooring – only the tongue and groove profile has changed.

Application
Long Life™ Flooring can be used over any Horner system utilizing at least one single layer of 15/32" plywood or 7/16" OSB or other manufacturer approved subfloor.

LONGER WEAR LIFE.
ECOLOGICALLY SOUND.
Horner Flooring Company has long been an ecological leader within the sports flooring industry. It was one of the first manufacturing mills to advocate the benefits of 25/32" flooring over the previously-used industry popular of 33/32" flooring. Now it’s the first to offer an extended wear life 25/32" product with the introduction of its Long Life™ Flooring product.

Horner’s Long Life™ Flooring offers the ecological, cost savings and availability benefits of standard 25/32" product but with the extended wear life of 33/32" flooring. Long Life™ Flooring will be offered in maple with other products available upon request.

LongLife™ BENEFITS

• Extended Wear Life
• Ecologically Responsible
• Increased Availability
• Cost Savings
• Ease of Application

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