Techniques

Tricks of the Trade

Trick of the Trade: An Easy Way to Remove Baseboards for Reuse

David Green of Nicholasville, Ky.-based Town & Country Hardwood Floors has a simple technique to remove and reuse baseboards when they are installed with 18-gauge finish nails.

July 18, 2023

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How Do You Control Dust on Your Wood Flooring Jobs?

Readers of Wood Floor Business share which tools and techniques they use to contain dust when installing and sanding on their wood flooring job sites.

June 6, 2023

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What’s the Most Challenging Thing You’ve Done on a Wood Flooring Job?

Wood floor pros share some of the projects or situations on a job site that stretched their skills.

March 23, 2023

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Tools + Equipment

Routers 101: What a Wood Floor Pro Should Know

Wood flooring pro Matt Garcia explains the router bits and accessories that are useful for wood flooring work.

March 23, 2023

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From Start to Finish: How We Did This Gym Floor

There’s a lot that goes into creating a modern gym floor, but it’s still very much an art. Beth Stalker of Stalker Sports Floors explains, step-by-step, what goes into creating one of their gym floors.

January 18, 2023

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How I Did This Floor: Bending Wood Flooring

Wood flooring pro James Harbour explains the steps for how to 'bend' wood flooring.

November 22, 2022

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Tips for Successfully Installing Metal Inlays in Wood Floors

Wood floor pro Adam Bissey explains how he sells and installs metal inlays in wood flooring.

November 21, 2022

Three examples of ways we have installed metal: left, brass outlining a starburst; middle, aluminum bordering chevron; and right, on a curve in our showroom entry.

How I Did This Floor: French Knots and Feature Strips

Wood flooring pro Josh Hansman walks through his steps to build and install French knots and feature strips.

October 5, 2022

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Tricks of the Trade

Trick of the Trade: Easy Vacuuming for Battery-Powered Chop Saws

Casey Ditworth at Woodshed Flooring Inc. in Pearl City, Ill., explains an easy tip for using a vacuum with a battery-powered chop saw.

September 16, 2022

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Plan Your Floor: Figuring Out Starting Lines For Installation

Floor pros know there are some rules you never break. Let’s look at one: Never start your installation off a wall!

July 27, 2022

Many times a “vantage line” that’s aesthetically pleasing is the best option when dealing with walls that aren’t square.

Tricks of the Trade

Trick of the Trade: Taking the Hassle Out of Floor Outlets

Matt Garcia from Craftsman Hardwood Flooring has an easy way to cut out outlets in a wood floor.

May 19, 2022

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Wood Floor Q&A: Does Veneer Thickness Equal Durability?

To a consumer, flooring durability is about how well their floor’s appearance holds up, but what does thickness veneer have to do with the quality of an engineered wood floor?

February 9, 2022

Thickness of a veneer doesn’t necessarily translate to dent-resistance; this dent was on a 3-mm sawn-face lamella.

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Top-Nail 5/16-Inch Strip: How We Did (and Still Do) These Floors

Lifelong Vancouver-area wood floor pro Ron Teljeur explains how 5/16-inch top-nail wood flooring was used historically and is still used today.

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Making Flooring Dreams Come True: The Winners of the 2023 Outstanding Retailer Awards

The hand-crafted parquet steals the show in this basement hangout.

Yes, That’s Wood Flooring—Not Tile—in This Unique Bar Room

The contractor on this job applied the second coat of waterborne finish without abrading; the first coat had become too inert after sitting more than 72 hours.

The Top Reasons Why Finishes Fail (to Perform)

Márcio and Fabio Goncalves of Port Chester, N.Y.-based Creation Hardwood Flooring Specialists drove home the 'Most Unusual Work Vehicle' title for their 1929 Ford Model A truck.

Rolling with Opportunity: See the Winners of the 2023 WFB Truck and Van Contest

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