Video: Day 1 on Site at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House

Mar 4, 2024

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Here's a look at Day 1 of our project in Grosse Pointe, Mich., where we are staying for three weeks to work on restoring the wood flooring at the beautiful Edsel & Eleanor Ford House:

Video: Applying Finish to the Wood Floors and Wrapping Up at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House

March 12, 2024

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

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

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How We Did This Floor: Edge-Grain in the Portland International Airport

Photo credits clockwise from top left: Rift-and-quartered select red oak from Allegheny Mountain Hardwood Flooring and installed by Ron Doran, hickory/pecan by Robert Welp, white oak by Aaron Hall, cherry refinished by Alex Ramirez, maple by Adrian Molitor, ash by Chris Hodges. Center: Walnut by Jamie Espinoza.

Domestic Species for Wood Flooring 101: What Pros Should Know

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Trick of the Trade: Keeping Track of Your Finish Made Easier

Tricks of the Trade

Trick of the Trade: Getting Those Glued Wood Vents to Pop Right Out

Here’s an easy solution from wood floor pro Lorie Davidson 'for the times when some moron has glued a wood vent into a floor with water-based finish.'

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How We Did This Floor: Edge-Grain in the Portland International Airport

Approximately 57,000 square feet of the Portland International Airport now has local edge-grain white oak wood flooring with an oil finish—a massive undertaking, even for a company like Pure Floors Inc. This is how they did it.

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Domestic Species for Wood Flooring 101: What Pros Should Know

Lifelong wood flooring pro Bob Goldstein discusses helpful advice for installing, sanding and finishing the most common domestic wood flooring species.

Photo credits clockwise from top left: Rift-and-quartered select red oak from Allegheny Mountain Hardwood Flooring and installed by Ron Doran, hickory/pecan by Robert Welp, white oak by Aaron Hall, cherry refinished by Alex Ramirez, maple by Adrian Molitor, ash by Chris Hodges. Center: Walnut by Jamie Espinoza.

Tricks of the Trade

Trick of the Trade: Keeping Track of Your Finish Made Easier

Aussie wood floor pro Troy Stanfield at Plankd Flooring in Mt. Barker, Australia, has a couple handy tips for helping keep track of wood floor finish.

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Your Customer Asks for a White Floor. How Do You Do It?

We asked our readers on the WFB Facebook and Instagram pages how they create white wood floors. Here are some of their responses.

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Wood Floor Rescue

Wood Floor Rescue: A Heart Attack of a Heart Pine Job

Lorie Davidson bid this heart pine job off of real estate photos. When he actually arrived at the farmhouse and saw its original floors, circa 1873, “I had to go back out to the truck and say the Lord’s Prayer," he says.

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A Formidable Challenge: Introducing Waterborne Coatings

The early 1980’s were an interesting time in the wood floor finish business. Oil-modified urethane (OMU) was king. While there were a few other types of finishes being used, almost every contractor used OMU. However, that was going to change very quickly.

Stephen Gunneson of Branford, Conn.-based Gunneson Flooring Company shared these two artifacts from the early days of water-based coatings: a vintage gallon of Basic Coatings Street Shoe water-based finish found at a customer’s home, and a casette tape of a seminar on “Water Based Floors” from 1995.

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Wood Floor Rescue: A Remarkable Reveal in Connecticut

Stephen Gunneson of Gunneson Flooring Company says sanding this wood flooring at a Connecticut home "was like uncovering a treasure."

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Veneer Floors: A Common Phenomenon in Historic Wide Plank

Wood floor restoration expert Michael Purser of Rosebud Company discusses the high-end veneer flooring that was commonplace in expensive homes in the early 20th century.

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Video: Applying Finish to the Wood Floors and Wrapping Up at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House

Wood Floor Business author/blogger and wood flooring restoration expert Michael Purser of The Rosebud Company gives us a look into his project at Edsel & Eleanor Ford House—here we see finish application and the "after" footage.

Video: Buffing on Color and the First 'After' Shots at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House

Michael Purser of The Rosebud Company is back in Michigan working on restoring the wood flooring in the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House—here we see progress on the gallery and the stunning "after" footage of the herringbone white oak.

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Video: Stripping the Finish off the Wood Floors at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House

How do we go about stripping the old finish off the beautiful wood flooring when we do historic restorations? Here's a look at the work we're doing on the Ford estate.

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