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Questions About Installing Oak Hardwood Flooring
Posted on February 19, 2012 by Chris in Questions About Hardwood FlooringDonald asks… Is it necessary to use felt paper on top of Advantek OSB subfloor before installing hardwood flooring? We are preparing to install new pre-finished oak hardwood in our new sunroom to save money. We have the 3/4″ thick AdvanTec tounge and groove subfloors on brand new construction. Is it necessary to use felt [...]
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Questions About Refinishing Old Wood Floors
Posted on February 18, 2012 by Chris in Questions About Hardwood FlooringNancy asks… What finish is better for refinishing old wood floors: oil-based or water-based? We pulled up the carpet in our 60-year old house and found wood floors in marginal shape. We’ll need a baseboard installed and have our floors refinished. One company recommended oil-based finish and the other recommended water-based finish. The original finish [...]
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Questions About Oak Flooring Unfinished
Posted on February 17, 2012 by Chris in Questions About Hardwood FlooringSharon asks… what type of sander should i use on new unfinished wood flooring before finishing? Im installing new unfinished white oak flooring. I don’t know if I need to use a drum sander, orbital sander etc before finishing floor. Chris answers: There are sanders you can use that are far easier to use then [...]
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Questions About Wood Floor Sanding Equipment
Posted on February 16, 2012 by Chris in Questions About Hardwood FlooringCharles asks… Wood floor will not dry.? Has anyone ever heard of this? Last Saturday I stained our wood floor (oak) in our dining room. I have finished wood floors before and have the equipment to sand the floor down and do the job properly. For some reason, (and I know we have had rain [...]
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Questions About Replace Damaged Wood Flooring
Posted on February 15, 2012 by Chris in Questions About Hardwood FlooringNancy asks… What kind of wood floor should I put in my home? Due to our recent rainy season in so. california, ( homes here are not built to withstand the elements I guess). my home had lots of water damage,i.e., wet walls, buckled floors and molding coming off the walls and saturated. Water came [...]
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Questions About Hardwood Flooring San Francisco
Posted on February 14, 2012 by Chris in Questions About Hardwood FlooringDonald asks… how much does maid service cost in San Francisco? How much do maid services usually cost in San Francisco? We have a 3br/1ba apartment with hardwood floors and I’d like to get a rough idea before I have any people come out for an estimate. Chris answers: Im not really sure but maybe [...]
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Questions About Installing Oak Flooring To Solid Floor
Posted on February 13, 2012 by Chris in Questions About Hardwood FlooringKen asks… My recently fitted Solid Oak floor is rising in places and creaking. Is this normal and will it go away? It is a 18mm solid oak glued floating floor above 12mm plywood and a waterproof / thermal membrane covering a concrete floor. We left at least 12mm gap all round and “climatised” the [...]
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Questions About Sanding Oak Flooring
Posted on February 12, 2012 by Chris in Questions About Hardwood FlooringRobert asks… Sanded Oak hardwood floors and the stain took differently around the edges of the room (much darker), why? Where you would use the edger sander the stain took differently (darker) so now we have a very distinct border around each room. Is there a way to fix this? If we try to re-sand [...]
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Questions About Wood Floor Sanding And Refinishing
Posted on February 11, 2012 by Chris in Questions About Hardwood FlooringSandy asks… In sanding and refinishing your wood floors better left to experts or can you do it yourself? Just want to know how big of a project it is. Is My typo Chris answers: As you can see from the answers above, there’s actually two different types of floor sanders -disk and drum. And [...]
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Questions About Oak Flooring Stain Colors
Posted on February 10, 2012 by Chris in Questions About Hardwood FlooringSusan asks… what color wood stain on a wood floor goes good with dark cherry oak stain on the trim? Chris answers: Lighter a bit so the space will look bigger, similar enough not to fight each other. If you use jell stain you can have the same color as the trim and keep removing [...]
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