Check Out These Useful Wood Flooring Q&As

May 7, 2025

Q As

These questions cover everything from shake to sanding—find out how YOU would have answered them, and see what our wood flooring experts had to say:

How Do You Know if a Wood Floor Can Be Sanded Again?

What Caused This Sheen Difference?

When are Existing Subfloors Acceptable?

What Really Causes Wood Floor Shake?

What Are These Strange Raised Areas in this Wood Floor?

Which Self-Leveler Should I Use Underneath Moisture-Resistant Adhesive?

Can I Use a Laminate Stapler for Engineered Flooring?

Wood Flooring Q&A: Is That Moisture Reading Correct?

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Animator’s Studio is Transformed With a Herringbone Pencil Floor

Justin Boone used LED light inlays to frame the flooring designs.

Transformative Flooring Design Illuminates Home

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Introducing the Winners of the 2025 WFB Design Awards

See that daylight between the end of the board and the straightedge? That’s called snipe, and it comes from the milling not being set up correctly.

What We’ve Learned by Milling the Flooring We Install

Animator’s Studio is Transformed With a Herringbone Pencil Floor

Saulnier Floors devised the idea to arrange approximately 12,000 Dixon Ticonderoga No. 2 pencils in a herringbone style.

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Transformative Flooring Design Illuminates Home

Justin Boone of Middleburg, Fla.-based Boone Flooring was originally hired to refinish some worn-out parquet throughout this house, but as he discussed possible flooring designs with the homeowner, the two got excited about the idea of doing a complete transformation.

Justin Boone used LED light inlays to frame the flooring designs.

Introducing the Winners of the 2025 WFB Design Awards

Each winner of the 2025 WFB Design Awards exhibits dedication and passion for wood flooring craftsmanship. These award-winning projects showcase the achievements of wood flooring pros and their unique visions that transform flooring into works of art.

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What We’ve Learned by Milling the Flooring We Install

From my perspective as a wood flooring contractor who also mills his own flooring, here are some factors I think more wood flooring installers should pay attention to.

See that daylight between the end of the board and the straightedge? That’s called snipe, and it comes from the milling not being set up correctly.

Tell Us About the Most Difficult Wood Floor Job You Ever Did

We asked wood floor pros to share their most challenging jobs. Here are our favorite responses shared by our readers on the WFB Facebook and Instagram pages.

How We Did This Floor: Edge-Grain in the Portland International Airport

Approximately 57,000 square feet of the Portland International Airport now has local edge-grain white oak wood flooring with an oil finish—a massive undertaking, even for a company like Pure Floors Inc. This is how they did it.

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Tricks of the Trade

Trick of the Trade: Clever Contraption for Scribing to Rock Walls

Daniel Caffo of Daniel Caffo Hardwood Flooring Inc. in Woodlyn, Pa., built a clever jig for scribing wood flooring to stone walls.

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Beautiful, Durable and Bug-Resistant: Historic Dade County Pine Flooring

Dade County pine was harvested to near extinction due to its beauty, durability and resistance to decay and bugs; today it is a coveted material in restoration projects.

Trick of the Trade for Doing a Wood Floor Board Replacement

Lifelong wood floor pro Ron Teljeur, owner at Aldergrove, B.C.-based Acorn Wood Floors Ltd., demonstrates an easy tip that helps protect existing flooring when doing a board replacement.

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What Is the Top Thing You Do to Prevent Moisture Issues?

Wood floor pros share their best practices for preventing problems with moisture on their wood flooring installations.

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Domestic Species for Wood Flooring 101: What Pros Should Know

Lifelong wood flooring pro Bob Goldstein discusses helpful advice for installing, sanding and finishing the most common domestic wood flooring species.

Photo credits clockwise from top left: Rift-and-quartered select red oak from Allegheny Mountain Hardwood Flooring and installed by Ron Doran, hickory/pecan by Robert Welp, white oak by Aaron Hall, cherry refinished by Alex Ramirez, maple by Adrian Molitor, ash by Chris Hodges. Center: Walnut by Jamie Espinoza.

Herringbone Reinvented: Panelizing for Stress-Free Floors

Herringbone floors are stunning and elegant, but installing them piece by piece can be slow, tedious and prone to frustrating misalignments. Fortunately, there’s a better way: panelizing.

I’ve found that panelizing sections of herringbone with face tape makes installation faster and less error-prone.

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