Making flooring

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Looked at the forestry handbook. Fantastic help that. Really appreciate your input. The advice they offer pg 3 chap 13 "Install wood at the moisture content levels that the wood will experience in service." So leaving it in the room where it will be in service appears to be the correct way to go.

The moisture and oven method on pg 2 of chap 13 appears more like advised in the forum:"To prevent drying or uptake of moisture, weigh each specimen
immediately. If the specimen cannot be weighed immediately,
place it in a plastic bag or tightly wrapped in
metal foil to protect it from moisture change until it can be
weighed. After weighing, place the specimen in an oven
heated to 101 to 105 °C (214 to 221 °F), and keep it there
until no appreciable weight change occurs in 4-h weighing
intervals. A lumber section 25 mm (1 in.) along the grain
will reach a constant weight in 12 to 48 h. Smaller specimens
will take less time. The constant or oven-dry mass
and the (original) mass of the specimen when cut are used
to determine the percentage of moisture content (MC) using
the formula (13–1)"

This forestry publication looks like a very useful resource, thanks again