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Avi Hadad

Avi Hadad

Avi Hadad is the owner-operator of Avi's Hardwood Floors in the San Francisco Bay area. Since 2002, his team has built a reputation for craftsmanship that goes beyond the norm. Their projects run the gamut from restoring Victorian-era floors to creating intricate, custom-designed inlays. Avi believes that techniques, materials, and equipment are continually evolving. That's why he keeps going back to school for advanced certification. And he instructs new generations of craftspeople at the NWFA. When he’s not working or teaching, Avi spends his free time with his wife and two children who, for some reason, don’t find wood flooring as endlessly fascinating as he does.

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How to Install, Sand & Finish Engineered Floors, Part 5
Picking up where we left off on that custom engineered job after the customer had told me he didn’t like the wenge stringing we had installed on the diamond inlays ...
October 17, 2016
10 17 Wenge Diamond
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How to Install, Sand & Finish Engineered Floors, Part 4
When I execute floor jobs, I don’t just jump into things without planning them out. I enjoy thinking and analyzing, contemplating and predicting until I come up with the most efficient plan to execute what my client wants done. In this case [see Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 on this complicated job], my client kept changing the plan as we were going along. Not once or twice, but more than I could count by this point.
September 12, 2016
9 12 16 Diamond Inlays Tools
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How to Install, Sand & Finish Engineered Floors, Part 3
Back to that custom engineered job we've been discussing (see Part 1 and Part 2)...
August 23, 2016
8 23 16 Inlay Routed Pieces
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How to Install, Sand & Finish Engineered Floors, Part 2
Back to that complicated engineered job from last time…
July 18, 2016
7 18 16 Tk
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How to Install, Sand & Finish Engineered Floors, Part 1: Subfloor Prep
Most people would refer to the house we are working on as “high-end.” Why? I don’t know. It’s just big and expensive. Nothing is solid, square, flat or parallel. Oh, and the entire house has cheap laminate floors and carpets.
June 14, 2016
6 24 26 Removing Leveling Compound
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Fixing a Bad Insurance Refinish Job
Hardwood flooring pro Avi Hadad discusses how they managed to repair a terrible sanding job by a previous wood flooring contractor.
April 8, 2016
4 8 16 Flat Wood Floor Floor View
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How This Simple Refinish Ended Up With A Custom Medallion Upgrade
Wood flooring professional Avi Hadad discusses how a recent job went from a straight refinish to an upsell with a large custom medallion.
March 3, 2016
Because of the medallion size, the template came in four pieces.
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Sanding & Finishing Wood Floors: Is It All the Same?
Wood flooring contractor Avi Hadad discusses all the variables that go into sanding and finishing different wood species.
January 26, 2016
A bad Brazilian cherry refinish job that had been done by another company.
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Under Pressure: A High-Rise Wenge Refinish & Repair, Part 2
Wood flooring contractor Avi Hadad explains how he managed to do complicated repairs and a total resand on an engineered wenge wood floor.
January 5, 2016
An area where we had to use the plunge router to remove existing wenge before gluing on new veneers.
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Under Pressure: A High-Rise Wenge Refinish & Repair
Wood flooring contractor Avi Hadad talks about how he went about bidding a complicated job that included refinishing and repairing an engineered wenge floor.
November 23, 2015
This is an area of the project that needed to be filled in/repaired before I could begin the sanding.
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