Trick of the Trade for Doing a Wood Floor Board Replacement

Nov 27, 2024

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Here's an easy tip I use to help protect existing flooring when I'm doing a glue-down board replacement:

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The Crazy Thing That Chandelier

The Crazy Thing That Happened After the Chandelier Dented This Floor

February 27, 2025

Expert Tips for Prepping Wood Floors and Applying LED-Cured Oils

Expert Tips for Prepping Wood Floors and Applying LED-Cured Oils

How Manual Labor Saved

How Manual Labor Saved an Art Movement (or ‘The Revenge of the Skinny, Vulgar Floor Scrapers’)

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Video: Angelo DeSanto on the Show Floor at TISE 2025

Odd Stuff on Odd Jobs: Hack Work and a Saggy Subfloor

The Crazy Thing That Happened After the Chandelier Dented This Floor

"Honestly, on this job I never thought about this situation happening in a million years," says wood floor pro Josh Hansman about this repair of a wood floor with dents from a massive chandelier.

The Crazy Thing That Chandelier

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Expert Tips for Prepping Wood Floors and Applying LED-Cured Oils

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Expert Tips for Prepping Wood Floors and Applying LED-Cured Oils

How Manual Labor Saved an Art Movement (or ‘The Revenge of the Skinny, Vulgar Floor Scrapers’)

“The Floor Scrapers” by Gustave Caillebotte was singled out and deemed “vulgar and crude,” as it violated the unwritten law of popular art by showing the urban working class just going about their business—but it also ended up saving Impressionism.

How Manual Labor Saved

Video: Angelo DeSanto on the Show Floor at TISE 2025

Wood floor pro and Wood Floor Business author/blogger Angelo DeSanto of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.-based wood floor contracting company Dande West takes viewers on a walk through the show floor at TISE 2025, the biggest flooring show in North America.

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Odd Stuff on Odd Jobs: Hack Work and a Saggy Subfloor

Often we run into jobs that have additions and home improvements that may have not been thought out nor factored in for future additions. On this job, the builder had to make structural fixes, and we had to remove a layer of thinset and self-leveler.

My Solution for a Nightmare Particleboard Subfloor Situation

I walked inside to get a look at what was accomplished in my absence, and as my roving eye of Sauron set itself on the subfloor, I beheld a terrible sight: There was only particleboard in every room.

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Moving Toward Rewards: The Little Lady I Met in Vegas

In 2024, after years of deliberating, I allowed myself to make a purchase that feels like a reward for years of hard work and toil on wood flooring job sites.

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'Meeting of the Minds:' Pushing the Boundaries of What’s Possible in Wood Flooring

In October, I attended the “Meeting of the Minds,” a gathering of hardwood flooring professionals hosted by Daniel Antes at Distinctive Hardwood Floors. We all came together with one goal in mind: exchange knowledge, ideas and techniques.

How Wood Flooring Pros Can Manage Their Tempers and Control Frustration

Wood flooring contractors know that when you are working with the general public all day every day, you can encounter some difficult personalities. Here are 10 points elaborating on how contractors can manage their tempers.

How Pros Manage Frustration

Another Form of Contractor Currency: The Trade Out

Whether you call it bartering or a trade out, it’s an economic system that’s been around for centuries and can serve a useful purpose when applied properly. In my situation, I got a crash course in it because I was dirt poor when I started my business.

When I started out in the wood flooring business, I was dirt poor, but I managed to live for three years at Lizzie T without writing one check for rent by bartering refinish work.

How I Avoid Getting Rolled Up Like Sushi in Court

In the far-fetched case a client is unhappy with me or tries to take me to court, I would hope and pray I don’t get matched against an attorney who is half of what my Uncle John was—his superpower was charisma, and Uncle John rarely lost.

How I Avoid Sushi

Wood Floor Mystery #17: What Caused This Weird Discoloration in the Floor? Part 2: The Answer!

It was the dog ... in the billiards room ... with the ... find out the complete answer to the mystery of the huge black discolorations in this wood floor.

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Wood Floor Mystery #17: What Caused This Weird Discoloration in the Floor?

When the wood floor pros arrived and removed the carpeting, they found the oak strip flooring in this condition—with these big dark stains. What’s going on here? What jumps out at you?

Wood Floor Mystery 17

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