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An Essential Wood Flooring Installation Practice: ‘Trust But Verify’
Before you start installing that wood flooring, it's imperative to do a few simple checks that can avoid big trouble later.
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The Installer's Dilemma: Beware What's in Those Instructions
Wood flooring expert Roy Reichow explains what to do in a dilemma when flooring crews discover there's an issue with the wood flooring.
December 10, 2018
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Techniques
How Many Times Have You Seen This Vent Shortcut?
Wood flooring pro Roy Reichow discusses a common but unfortunate shortcut he sees with vents on some wood flooring installations.
August 7, 2018
Techniques
The Custom Pinwheel Parquet Installation, Part 3
Hidey-ho, partners—Keith Long here with Thunderheart Flooring, based out of Greeley, Colo. The last few weeks, we’ve been looking into the finer points of how to design and produce a custom pinwheel parquet (read about how this job came about and Part 1 and Part 2 of installation).
July 27, 2017
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The Custom Pinwheel Parquet Installation, Part 2
Hello all, Keith Long here with Thunderheart Flooring, based out of Greeley, Colorado. We’ve been going through the production work to fabricate the pinwheel parquet squares (read about how this job came about and how we started creating the parquet). Let’s get these parts put together:
July 20, 2017
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The Custom Pinwheel Parquet Installation, Part 1
Hello all, Keith Long here with Thunderheart Flooring, based out of Greeley, Colo., to carry on with the production of the pinwheel parquet squares installed in Moberly, Mo.
July 13, 2017
Techniques
An Undercut Leads to Plank Replacement
As installers, many times we take the easiest way to complete our installation process. And sometimes a simple process goes bad and causes plank(s) replacement. Here’s a typical example. When we look at the photo of this job from the top view, you can clearly see the split on the long side of the vent. When you look closely at the side view, you can see the flooring has been undercut with a table saw. Typically this undercut will run 1-inch-plus depending on the flooring thickness. When the flooring goes through climatic changes, especially in low RH conditions, the wood will contract. With the wood being undercut, the stress from contraction was enough to cause this wood to split within the table saw cut.
May 24, 2017
Techniques
From Carpet to Diagonal Hardwood Flooring, Part 5
Hello all, Keith Long here with Thunderheart Flooring to wrap up the installation of flush-mount vents and the double-picture-frame border on the project we’ve been working on (see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4).
May 19, 2017
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From Carpet to Diagonal Hardwood Flooring, Part 4
Greetings and salutations, Keith Long here with Thunderheart Flooring in Greeley, Colo., to continue with the project where we have been converting a living room from carpet to hardwood flooring, laid on the diagonal with a double-picture-frame border (see Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3).
May 12, 2017
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From Carpet to Diagonal Hardwood Flooring, Part 3
Hello, Keith Long here with Thunderheart Flooring to continue with the project we have been going through (see Part 1 and Part 2).
May 1, 2017
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From Carpet to Diagonal Hardwood Flooring, Part 2
Hello all, Keith Long here with Thunderheart Flooring to continue with the flooring project we started last time where we were ripping out carpeting before installing hardwood on the diagonal.
April 21, 2017
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From Carpet to Diagonal Hardwood Flooring, Part 1
Hidey-ho, fellow wood flooring craftsmen. Keith Long here with Thunderheart Flooring in Greeley, Colo. Spring has sprung here over the course of the last week—the elms and cottonwoods are budding, and the apple, plum, and cherry trees have blossomed.
April 10, 2017
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How-To: A Herringbone Floor, Part 4 (Installation, Sanding, Staining & Finishing)
Good day, Keith Long here with Thunderheart Flooring to wrap up the herringbone project done in Kansas City with Kimminau Wood Floors [see Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3].
March 10, 2017
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How-To: A Herringbone Floor, Part 3 (Starting Installation)
Hello, Keith Long here with Thunderheart Flooring to go through the third of four parts of the herringbone project recently completed in Kansas City in conjunction with Kimminau Wood Floors [also see Part 1 and Part 2].
March 3, 2017
Techniques
How-To: A Herringbone Floor, Part 1 (Planning Layout)
Greetings and salutations, Keith Long here with Thunderheart Flooring to go through a 4-inch select white oak project recently completed in Kansas City, Mo., in conjunction with Kimminau Wood Floors.
February 17, 2017
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