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Robbins Continuous Strip® XL, already the best-selling
maple product in the industry, not only improves on the natural
advantages of maple flooring. It’s also improving with
age.
The Continuous Strip XL family is growing with new members
designed to meet a wider range of customer needs. No matter
what the specific application, all members of the Continuous
Strip XL family offer significant advantages over conventional
maple strip flooring:
- Straighter.
For Continuous Strip XL, Robbins uses the industry’s
most stringent grading standards to select maple that we
finger-joint and precision mill into straighter units of
a uniform seven-foot length.
- Stronger. Its
uniform length means 75% fewer end joints, giving Continuous
Strip XL a surface strength nearly three times that of commodity
random length maple when measured in a system context.
- Goes down faster.
Pre-sanded, pre-sealed and pre-finished Continuous Strip
XL makes maple floor installation less time-consuming —
even more so when using the XLerator,™ Robbins’s
patented automated XL installation device.
- Last 10 years longer.
Continuous Strip XL installs with less surface sanding on
the jobsite. So your floor begins its life with more wear
surface than conventional random-length maple. And due to
Robbins’s precision milling process, Continuous Strip
XL has greater sanding wear life — adding up to 10
years to the life of your floor.
- Looks better.
Our grading standards exceed MFMA industry standards, which
gives Continuous Strip XL a more uniform, beautiful surface
appearance.
Many of our customers tell us that Continuous
Strip XL was the single biggest reason they chose Robbins
products over competing maple floors. They recognized the
improved longevity, beauty and strength that XL would bring
their facility — features that are the hallmark of every
XL floor.
Compared to random length, XL Maple goes down faster, is straighter,
stronger and exceeds the minimum requirements of industry
grade rules. The patented finger-joint and milling requires
less sanding at the jobsite and can increase the life expectancy
of the floor by 10 or more years.
The traditional look of strip maple captured in a revolutionary
new .450" low profile designed to maximize the use of
the raw material. Robbins’s XL450 offers the same wear
life as standard commodity random length maple but uses 33%
less raw material to manufacture and produces 67% less waste
going to landfill. Robbins’s XL450 is selected and graded
to provide a highly desirable, natural appearance. (Subfloor
modifications are required for XL450 use — consult your
Robbins Authorized Dealer for details.)
The plus is Robbins’s patented Precision Lineal Uniform
Spacing. Available as a specified option on all Continuous
Strip Maple, XLplus is the only maple floor that automatically
"precision spaces" the individual boards to counteract
the forces of expansion-contraction in the floor. You get
a truly monolithic maple surface that virtually eliminates
the need for spacer-cracks or expansion rows in the floor.
XLplus adds dimensional stability to the floor and eliminates
the need to specify "edge-grain" maple strip.
Continuous Strip XL is now available as Smartwood™ certified
by the Forest Stewardship Council and the United States Green
Building Council as the product of sustainably harvested forests.
Robbins provides a leadership role in developing new and unique
manufacturing processes designed to eliminate waste and provide
good stewardship of the resources we use.
Robbins Continuous Strip XL Maple is graded
by Robbins to exceed minimum standards established by the
Maple Flooring Manufacturing Association for finger-jointed
maple flooring. Contact Robbins for grading rules and more
information.
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