Readers Respond: What’s Your ‘Change My Mind’ Wood Flooring Opinion?

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WFB asked followers on Facebook and Instagram to share what opinion they’d put on this popular “Change My Mind” meme. Here’s what they said:

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Installing laminate over old hardwood floors is a crime. 🤷‍♂️

Nathan Kelly

Quality unfinished engineered is superior to solid.

Clint Fudge

Balsa wood is hardwood...Change my mind.

Doug LeClair

Left to right.

Aaron Ediger

Laminate should be illegal.

Michael Gwin

Financially, wood flooring is always the best choice for the long-term. Change my mind.

Alex Franklin

That LVP or any other prefinished or plastic floor is better than tile or HARDWOOD? Let’s go.

Ed Johnson

Manufactured hardwoods look better than sand-and-finish floors.

Tony Horsman

There needs to be a larger push from our industry against the LVP products.

Karla Contreras

Life is too short to live on plastic flooring.

Dave Marzalek

Make yourself great again—go to flooring school.

Robbie Allen's Custom Hardwood Flooring

LVP is one the worst products ever introduced into the ecosystem…

Angus Hardwood Flooring

Working for a contractor and an interior designer. CHANGE MY MIND.

Nicholas C Maxson

A good dust mop doesn’t exist.

Bee Ha

Absco Gloss is the absolute best coating out there.

Chris Traver

Never stain walnut. Change my mind.

Bob Alberding

Solid is better than engineered flooring.

Glenn Harris

Moisture cure is the most durable finish. Change my mind.

Jesse Grey

Aged white oak looks better than new white oak.

Scott R. Dunbar

Post-it notes everywhere from the customer makes for a higher quality job.

Patrick J. Russell

Staples are garbage, cleats are king.

Robert Francis Welp

Wood is the greenest, most sustainable and versatile resource!

robjohnson9663

Water’s better than oil…

oliverflooring

Hardwood: Often imitated never duplicated.

cedar_valley_wood_floors

Putting in LVP because we have dogs is a good idea.

reddys_hardwood_flooring

230-volt equipment is better than 115-volt equipment.

ridegreen23

Real wood floors are the best floors!

darin_dupree

Flooring/design shops are clueless!

vancouverhardwoodrestoration

Quality work is more important than speed.

vancouverhardwoodrestoration

There is nothing luxury about vinyl plank.

rinkerhardwoodflooring

Scraping toe kicks is unprofessional.

tonyrod231

Customers never know the best color for their floor.

kulfloors

Solid wood is better than engineered.

jameststudio

A hard-wax oil that has a second part (isocyanates) is not a hard-wax oil, it's a polyurethane! A true hard-wax oil has no second part and will outperform any polyurethane! Isocyanates mixed into oil is defined as polyurethane. It’s basic chemical knowledge. Don’t be fooled by false marketing.

ewfreeland0815

Real hardwood expands and contracts and gaps are ok.

pioneerhardwood

Staples are better than cleats.

pioneerhardwood

LVP and other plastic floors do not add value to your home.

teal_toys

Nail-down is outdated.

summitcustomhardwood

If you install all types of flooring, you are a master of none.

summitcustomhardwood

LVP is garbage.

derek_pallmann_usa

Screen and re-coats are not hardwood refinishing.

dmufford

Glue down is far superior than nail down.

roni_woodcare

The wall should be built with wood.

texasparquet

T-bar and waterborne finishes is wrong. Bucket-dunking-roller method is best.

jim_sours

Wood floor pros can install floating laminate, LVT and LVP but they shouldn’t…

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