Is Your House Hardwood Ready?
Congratulations- you’ve made the decision to put hardwood floors in your home! Wood flooring is a beautiful and durable building material that not only increases the value of a home, but can be customized to your lifestyle and design...
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Wood Flooring Glossary
Wood flooring has its own language. Some of the terms have to do with the appearance of the flooring, and those often are obvious. Some refer to technical aspects and are good to know when a contractor talks about...
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How to Clean Wood Floors | Dos and Don’ts
Wood floors are durable and can last more than a hundred years when maintained properly. But not all cleaning really is cleaning when it comes to wood. Myths and misinformation are plentiful. Not all cleaning products are right for...
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How Wood Floors Affect Home Value
Making upgrades to raise the value in your house often is a two-part thought process: now (while living in it) and someday (when selling it). The first part is difficult to measure. How much is feeling good in your...
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Custom Wood Floor Design
Wood floors make the room. Any room. Every room. Maybe that’s biased. Biased but true, for these reasons (and more): + Wood floors add to the home’s market value (Google it) + Wood floors often make the first impression...
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How Wood Cut Affects Floor Performance
We talked recently about wood cuts: quarter, rift, plain and live. We also talked about the forest-to-floor process. We even got in the dirt of the forest with a recent tree anatomy guide and how that anatomy relates to...
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Types of Solid Wood Flooring Cuts
The cut of wood from a tree, the angle of how boards are cut when harvested, affects the wood flooring that will be made from that wood. It affects the costs of production and the final appearance of the...
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5 Steps of Wood | Forest to Floor
It’s so easy to buy products without knowing where they came from and the path they took before they landed at our door step. Without really knowing where, knowing something deeper than a label that only says, “Made in...
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The Anatomy of Wood Flooring
We’ve all hiked in the woods or seen a fallen tree in a park and looked at its rings. One common bit of knowledge passed on to us since we were kids was that if we count that tree’s...
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Advantages of Natural Oil Wood Floor Finishes
We understand there are many wood flooring and finish options to consider: engineered or solid wood, prefinished or site-finished flooring, penetrating oil or surface-build finish. All have their best uses. Each flooring project needs to consider the specifics of...
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