Installation

Reclaimed Jarrah Parquet Saves ‘Dated’ New Zealand Apartment

To renovate a “dated” apartment in central Wellington, New Zealand, James Henry Ltd. turned to a species native to Western Australia: jarrah.

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These Wave-Textured Floors Are Designed To Massage Your Feet

One of Austrian floor manufacturer Mafi’s slogans is “Walk on art,” and with its 3D “wave”-textured Fresco Sabbia collection, it wants to give you a foot massage in the process.

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Tricks of the Trade

Trick of the Trade: Getting Full-Length Headers Into Existing Floors

Wood floor pro Joshua Crossman has a helpful and simple technique for installing full-length header boards in doorways.

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Basic Math for Wood Flooring Pros—You Can Do It

I hated math in school—little did I know then that using formulas, especially geometry, would become an integral part of my career. Here are some ways basic math is extremely important as a wood floor pro.

Even if your jobs aren’t as complicated as this one at a Floridian beach home, you need to be proficient at basic math to install wood floors.

Understand ‘Normal’ and ‘Abnormal’ Gaps in Wood Flooring

Wood floor expert Howard Brickman explains the straightforward facts about wood floor gaps—when they're OK and when they aren't.

Relatively small gaps can appear more objectionable when the floor is stained dark and the lighter color of the wood appears in the gaps.

Extraordinary Floors

Wood Floor of the Year 2014: Taking Center Stage

The final night of the NWFA Expo in Nashville had lots of excitement, from a concert by Grammy-winning country music songstress Pam Tillis to, of course, the announcement of the 2014 NWFA Wood Floor of the Year winners.

Wood Flooring Surrounds Luxury Sports Car ‘Portal’

As major corporations continue to flood the Dallas area and populate it with high-end office buildings, the team at Dallas-based Woodwright has been on the ground floor of providing their wood floors.

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Extraordinary Floors

Wood Floor of the Week: Freshening Up a Wood Floor Masterpiece

The wood used in this one-of-a-kind end grain medallion and log round floor waited 100 years under the Suwannee River for its chance in the limelight.

Wood floor pro Matt Marwick had the chance to refinish his 2011 award-winning floor recently when the home came under new ownership.

How We Flatten Wood and Concrete Subfloors

Wood floor pro Angelo DeSanto takes subfloor prep seriously; here he shows some actual jobs and how they handled making sure the subfloors were ready for the wood flooring.

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Our Nine Days at Workcamp Parquet 2023 at Bishop’s Palace in Györ, Hungary

Portuguese wood floor pro João Dias, better known by his business name Fino Oficio, shares thoughts and photos from the 2023 Workcamp Parquet project in Hungary.

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Sports Flooring

Readers Share Favorite Gym Flooring Projects From Summer 2023

WFB asked followers on Facebook to share some of their favorite gym flooring projects from over the summer.

Shawn Lawrence submitted this piece as a favorite gym flooring project completed over the summer of 2023.

Exquisite Parquet for a Floridian ‘Italian Castle’

On many large-scale wood flooring jobs, it’s about how quickly the project can be done for the client, says Luis Ramos of Absolute Hardwood Flooring. This Italian-inspired waterfront mansion was different.

This elaborate white oak parquet in the dining room of a waterfront mansion was just one wood floor in a project that took three years to complete.

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