Wood Floor Supplier Coordinates Discount, Free Installation for Family Experiencing Childhood Cancer

The Walsh's children on the family's new hardwood floor.
The Walsh's children on the family's new hardwood floor.

The Walsh's children on the family's new hardwood floor.The Walsh's children on the family's new hardwood floor.Wide Plank Floor Supply, a division of City Floor Supply (King of Prussia, Pa.), provided a reduced cost for a custom wide plank hardwood floor and helped coordinate a free installation for a family going through childhood cancer.

In late 2017, Kevin and Rebecca Walsh of Phoenixville, Pa., were looking to replace the carpet in their home with a hardwood floor in an effort to help preserve the health of their 3-year-old son Kieran’s lungs. In November 2016, Kieran was diagnosed with Wilms tumor, a form of childhood kidney cancer, which spread to his lungs.

Wide Plank Floor Supply flooring expert Fred Beach learned of Kieran’s story while helping the family select their hardwood flooring, and reached out to representatives from Bona Kemi, the Carpenters Joiners Apprentice Program of Philadelphia and DoveLin Enterprises in an effort to help the family with the cost of the hardwood flooring.

Wide Plank Floor Supply provided a discounted rate for the hardwood and students in the Carpenters Joiners Apprentice Program donated their labor to install, sand and finish the floor in the Walsh home. Bona Kemi donated low-VOC R851 adhesive and Craft Oil 2K penetrating oil to the project and Frank Dove of DoveLin Enterprises of West Berlin, N.J., assisted in coating the floors on the final day of the three-day installation.

“To be involved with something like this that helps somebody—that’s what it’s all about,” stated Beach, whose 21-year-old granddaughter was also diagnosed with Wilms tumor as a child.

The Walsh family chose a 9-inch engineered white oak live-sawn floor for their home.

Kieran’s latest scans show that he is now cancer-free. Video of the installation, and more about Kieran’s story, can be viewed here.

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