Does anyone know if there are any problems using square-end flooring vs end-matched? I have never installed the square-end before.

Maybe I'm too lazy to biscuit join every board and I've been told that I should.

We don't and haven't and we've never seen any adverse effects as long as we stick to proper nail scedule concerning the ends.

I want to hear what others have to say here on this one as well.

I think it matters most with presanded and prefinished floors. The end matching will help align the butts and keep them flush with each other. I think the same could be said for unfinished flooring as well. If it had absolutely no advantage, my question would be, why do it at all? I know on wide plank floors I've done and on some fir floors, the mill did not end match. You'd think the side matching would help hold the butts flush and I suppose it does to some degree but maybe not as well as an endmatched floor. What I know is most commercially available milled hardwood is endmatched. The customed milled floors seem to usually skip that, I'll guess because of cost?

Thank you for the info.

What I have found out so far, is that the matched ends keep the ends from warping.

Thanks again...