Stephen Diggins works for Wood Pro Inc. in their Salem, N.H., branch as manager and training director. He has many years of installation, sanding, finishing, gymnasium design and technical consulting experience, which he uses to assist his flooring customers on a regular basis. With almost 30 years in the flooring industry, he has been a freelance columnist for magazine, newsprint and online medias and has conducted product seminars ranging from wood flooring to luxury vinyl tile.
- Friday, April, 24, 2020 Wood Floor Mystery #5: The Uniform Gaps I received this text: “What causes this?” If you’re a Billy Crystal fan and you remember the movie “City Slickers,”, then you could understand why my mind swiftly answered, “Scoop...
- Wednesday, April, 15, 2020 Pandemic Update: It Feels Like Seinfeld as We Get Used to the 'Nothing' After several weeks of fairly brisk sales in the Northeast (as was happening during my last post), the COVID-19 virus has begun to wreak economic havoc in addition to its blight upon humanity.
- Monday, March, 30, 2020 March 30, 2020 Wood Flooring Industry Update: COVID-19 in New England As of this morning New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont posted an estimated more than 250 COVID-19 cases, Connecticut 1,200, Massachusetts 2,500 and New York likely breaching 40,000. Just hours after...
- Wednesday, March, 25, 2020 COVID-19 State of the Hardwood Flooring Trade: New England Prior to the lockdowns and closures caused by COVID-19, I was traveling from Boston to Florida, and by the time my plane landed I heard about businesses going “curbside” and civilians under...
- Thursday, March, 19, 2020 This Unidentified Flooring Oddity Turned Out to Be ‘Resonance’ I recently got pulled into a wood floor sanding mystery in a desert area of New Mexico. In a region known for oddities from outer space, we had our own UFO: Unidentified Flooring Oddity. Things for...
- Monday, October, 21, 2019 Thousands of Feet of Mahogany ... and So Much Water Continuing our blog on the wood flooring projects at historic amusement park Canobie Lake Park (see Part 1, “Historic Wood Floor vs. Lake: Why the Buckling After Almost 100 Years?”) … Today,
- Friday, September, 27, 2019 Historic Wood Floor vs. Lake: Why the Buckling After Almost 100 Years? From 1969 until today it has been our family’s tradition to close the school year and start the summer with a trip to Canobie Lake Park, a circa-1902 amusement park in Salem, N.H. The park is...
- Wednesday, June, 05, 2019 Wood Floor Mystery #4: How Did This Floor Get Like This? Here we go again! Strap on your knee pads and let’s dive right in. Russel Lunt from New Hampshire Wood Flooring LLC stopped in with some flooring samples torn out of a repair job. Examine what I...
- Tuesday, April, 30, 2019 A Gloriously Beautiful Hardwood Floor Disaster: The Sunken Gardens A few years back, I inspected a yellow birch prefinished hardwood floor complaint in a $1.4 million residence in an upscale development in Concord, Mass. The photos I received showed the flooring...
- Monday, March, 18, 2019 Wood Floor Mystery #3: The Tale of the Half-Cupped Floors, Part 3 (The Answer!) I never intended to have a three-part blog in the examination of the odd-ball flooring situation “The Tale of the Half-Cupped Floors” (see Part 1 and Part 2), it just played out that way.
