Wall of Shame: ‘God-Awful' Skirt Boards

Jan 30, 2017

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Pushing My Abilities to the Extreme: The Bulkhead During our ‘Craft and Code Masterclass’

February 9, 2024

Recognizing Retail Excellence: Enter the 2024 WFB Outstanding Retailer Awards

Recognizing Retail Excellence: Enter the 2024 WFB Outstanding Retailer Awards

When installing wood flooring below grade, moisture is always a concern, so thorough moisture testing should be a priority. (Photo courtesy of Tim McCool)

Wood Floor Q&A: Precautions for Installing Below Grade?

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

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.

Basic Math for Wood Flooring Pros—You Can Do It

Pushing My Abilities to the Extreme: The Bulkhead During our ‘Craft and Code Masterclass’

One of the most challenging projects at our "Craft and Code" timber flooring school wasn't going onto a floor at all, and it was something that was pushing my own abilities.

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Recognizing Retail Excellence: Enter the 2024 WFB Outstanding Retailer Awards

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Recognizing Retail Excellence: Enter the 2024 WFB Outstanding Retailer Awards

Wood Floor Q&A: Precautions for Installing Below Grade?

Tim Colgan, technical director at Milton, Ga.-based Välinge North America Inc., discusses wood floor installation below grade.

When installing wood flooring below grade, moisture is always a concern, so thorough moisture testing should be a priority. (Photo courtesy of Tim McCool)

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Sports Flooring

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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