Hardwood floors can be installed anywhere in a house and can be prepared from several species of wood such as elm, ash, oak, amendoim, cypress, teak, cherry, walnut, palissandre, hickory and maple. The hardness, stability, color, and alterations in the color varies with the type of wood. Chestnut, Douglas fir, and North American Cherry offer [...]

Hardwoods floor styles come in strips, charts, parquet, squares, micro and beveled edges. The state of the art and technology of today almost limitless options stains, finishes, styles and designs of wooden floors makes one of the most practical and versatile floor coverings available. The types and darkness level of a wood floor you choose [...]

With all the different types, styles and colors of flooring available today it can be a monumental task in choosing the right flooring for your home. Hardwood floors, laminate, vinyl, linoleum, bamboo, antique, prefinished, which one is right for you? Oak, maple, cherry and birch are popular types of flooring hardwood, but there are many [...]

Time Required: Varies Here’s How: 1. Sweep wood floors frequently with a soft, fine bristle broom. 2. Vacuum-clean once or twice a week to remove dirt and sand. Use a soft brush attachment to minimize scratching. 3. Because water is one of a wood floors worst enemies, get rid of water right away! Remove wet [...]

Installation Process 1 – Subfloor Preparation Sweep subfloor clean. Prior to beginning genuine installation, provide suitable layout of flooring by administering shorts and long lengths every bit over the areas to be floored (planks had better be placed at right angles to floor joists) and set up the desired pattern by distributing the face widths. [...]

Shredding hardwood floors which have been glued straight to concrete can be very messy and labour-intensive task. But there are some factors will be important in ascertaining how hard the task will be, include: o How good it was firstly installed. DIY installations will be the easiest to remove, whether it is not enough or [...]

(ARA) – The results are in: When asked what they want materials in their kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms and entry, the owners say that the wood is the way to go. Realtors agree – a national survey by real estate agents conducted by the National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA), revealed that 90 percent believe houses [...]