Restoration

Wood Floor Rescue: Bringing Centuries-Old Beautiful Fir Back to Life

“It’s so Downton Abbey,” says Danny Stenhouse, owner of York, U.K.-based Sandhouse Floor Sanding & York Parquet Ltd., of this job site, Brockfield Hall, where he brought the wood flooring back to life.

September 16, 2022

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Wood Floor of the Week: 130-Year-Old Floor Saved By 150-Year-Old Beams

See how Design Wood Floors restored this historic parquet floor in Boston's Ames Mansion.

August 3, 2022

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Wood Floor Rescue: Uncovering Gems In Rural North Dakota

In rural North Dakota, wood floor pro Ed Lausche of Northern Hardwood Floors in Nome, N.D., uncovers “some pretty good gems” when he’s hired to sand existing wood floors.

July 21, 2022

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Matching New to Old in a Historic Family Farmhouse

March 17, 2022

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Wood Floor Rescue: Big Reveal in a Hoboken Basement

Brendan Gillespie of Gillespie Hardwood Floors got to transform a secret bowling alley that had been covered many decades ago.

December 3, 2021

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Basketball Court Floor Gets a Second Shot with the Pros

“No need to send a perfectly good wood floor to the landfill."

November 10, 2021

Wood Floor Rescue: Repairing a Hideous Repair

Wood floor pro Micah Hestad came to the rescue for this customer after another contractor created a mind-boggling repair after a wall was removed.

March 18, 2021

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Keeping Mo Mighty: a Tiny Restoration Job For a Giant Legend

Wood flooring restoration expert Michael Purser details a special job he did: working on the yellow pine platform for the Mighty Mo organ at Atlanta's Fox Theatre.

February 16, 2021

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How I Did This Floor: Recreating History After a Fire

Wood flooring pro Jason Vivash explains his detailed process for recreating every piece of this historic wood floor after the original floor couldn't be salvaged.

September 20, 2019

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Wood Flooring Wall of Shame: The Most Astonishing Repair We've Ever Seen

This repair in a gym floor proves that common sense is not always common when it comes to wood flooring.

July 19, 2018

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Tackling the Refinishing of Revolutionary War-Era Historic Maple Floors

Wood flooring pro Howard Brickman describes the refinishing process for the wood flooring in historic Faneiul Hall in Boston.

June 12, 2018

Trick of the Trade: Making Wood Flooring Lace-Ins So Much Easier

Wood flooring pro David Merrill demonstrates how he uses his demolition hammer to make it so much easier to remove boards when doing lace-in jobs.

January 26, 2018

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State of the Industry 2023

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What Lies Beneath: How I Prevent Moisture Problems Before the Sale

From left to right: An offset flush trim pattern bit, round over bit, top-bearing groove bit, pattern trim bit with top bearing and flush trim bit.

Routers 101: What a Wood Floor Pro Should Know

Walking into a job after another contractor gets kicked out is one of many situations that wood flooring pros like us must handle carefully.

How I Handle These Common but Difficult Customer Scenarios

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The Next Generation: Black Wood Floor Pros Look to the Future of the Industry

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