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Blast From The Past: Wood Floor Tools and Machines from Yesteryear

Get an appreciation for what hardwood flooring pros were using "back in the day."

May 19, 2021

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Wood Floor Rescue: Rhyme and Reason for Tassie Oak

Over decades, this home and its wood flooring had become a hodge-podge. Wood flooring pros Clint and Lisa Fudge tackled the renovation to make everything seamless.

May 19, 2021

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Tricks of the Trade

Wood Floor Trick of the Trade: Scrapers With a Twist

Wood floor pro David Green came up with a simple but clever way to make scrapers work for tricky situations when space is tight.

March 18, 2021

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Wood Floor Mystery #8: Is This Floor Fungus Among Us? Part 2

Wood flooring pro Stephen Diggins reveals what the mysterious black substance in the back of this consumer's closet that appears to be mold really is.

March 8, 2021

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Wood Floor Mystery #8: Is This Floor Fungus Among Us? Part 1

Wood floor pro Stephen Diggins' latest wood floor mystery involves photos of a floor that appear to show black mold growing on the floor. But is that what it is?

March 1, 2021

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Sponsored: New Technology That Makes It Easier to Sand Prefinished Floors

The new abrasives available from Norton make sanding prefinished wood flooring, especially aluminum-oxide-coated floors, much easier and faster.

February 22, 2021

Norton Abrasives BlazeX and Blaze Plus allow you to eliminate extra steps and save time.

Motors 101 & What Wood Flooring Pros Should Know, Part 2

Part 2 of this super useful article about the essentials on motors for wood flooring pros, this time focusing on edgers and buffers. All from lifelong wood flooring expert Bob Goldstein.

January 19, 2021

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Restoring Grandeur for Mighty Mo's Wood Floor at Fox Theatre

Wood flooring pro Michael Purser, who specializes in restoring historic floors, got to tackle a small but mighty project at Atlanta's Fox Theatre.

January 19, 2021

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Wood Floor Rescue: A Wood Floor Reveal ... Like a Boss

You never know what you might find when you're going to refinish an old wood floor, and this job by Bob Alberding held a lovely surprise.

January 19, 2021

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Wood Floor Rescue: Kiwi Native Woods Uncovered

This fantastic transformation that uncovered the true beauty of many native New Zealand woods was so much work—but so worth it.

November 19, 2020

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Motors 101 & What Wood Flooring Pros Should Know, Part 1

The essentials info on motors that all wood flooring pros should know—from a lifelong wood flooring expert.

November 19, 2020

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Tricks to Get the Most Life Out of Your Abrasives

Wood flooring pro Leroy Brookens shares his tricks for getting all the use possible out of his wood floor sanding abrasives.

September 21, 2020

Always cut abrasives from the back.

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Up For The Challenge: See the Winning Floors of the 2022 WFB Design Awards

Scroll through the stunning floors that took home the Best Residential, Best Commercial, Best Stairs, Best Gym, Readers’ Choice and Next Gen Design Awards.

Background image: Mike Reissig. Sanding photos: Top row left to right: Jacob Durham, Josh Rollins, Jose Hernandez. Second row left to right: Staci Martinez, R.J. Cunningham, Stephen Young. Third row left to right: Joe Smith, Eduardo Hernandez de la Cruz, Luis Perez. Bottom row left to right: Jim Kramer, Fino Oficio, Michael Tipon.

Wood Floor Sanding 101, Part 2

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What’s Your Best Tip For Working With Stairs?

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Technology and Art Collide: Creating the ‘Unity’ Mandala in Wood

Me: Left, circa 1991 in my days as a rocker, and, right, at a wood flooring school in 2019.

When Things Don’t Go As Planned: From Rock Band to Wood Flooring

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Podcasts

All Things Wood Floor, created by Wood Floor Business magazine, talks to interesting wood flooring pros to share knowledge, stories and tips on everything to do with wood flooring, from installation, sanding and finishing to business management.