Hardwood Flooring 101: Methods of Installation
There are a million different types of woods, colors, stains and grades to chose from when you are installing a new hardwood floor. Okay, maybe not a million, but sometimes the amount of choices when it comes to hardwood flooring can be overwhelming. One way to get around this (luxury) problem is to work backwards. […]
Prefinished vs. Site-finished Hardwood Flooring – Part 1
A client in the showroom asked me today, “Should I get prefinished flooring or the kind you sand and finish on site?” Excellent question. I hear it almost every day. It’s hard though to get a straight answer to such a simple question. Part of the problem lies in vested interest of those giving the […]
Those Cracks in Your Floor
Mid-January in the Rocky Mountains means a lot of things – great skiing, hot fires, and cold dry weather. It also means that your floors are probably starting to shrink and there are now gaps between the boards. The other day, relative humidity here was at 14%. That’s pretty dry, but I don’t need to look online to […]
Bamboozled?
Industry colleague, foodie-extraordinaire, & all-around good guy Mark Casper passed along this interesting article on bamboo flooring. This well-written article in SLATE entitled Bamboo and You, Are hardwood floors a crime against the Earth? was authored by Brendan I. Koerner. It echos a lot of what I’ve been saying for a while now. Bamboo is a great eco-friendly crop; a wonder crop […]