Category Archives: Hardwood

Acclimating Your New Flooring: Why it’s Essential to Wait

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A word of caution, never let your contractors install your new floor as soon as the cartons arrive at your home. Any new floor, whether it’s hardwood, engineered wood, or laminate, needs to sit in your house for at least 48 hours in the room it will be installed in order to acclimate or to become accustomed to a new climate or conditions.

For example, if you live in the Southwest where it’s very dry, and decided to take a vacation exploring the rain forest in Brazil where’s it’s intensely humid, it might take you a few days to get used to, or get acclimated to, your new environment. Read More Acclimating Your New Flooring: Why it’s Essential to Wait

Top 7 Frequently Asked Questions About Hardwood Flooring

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There are a lot of questions when redoing your floors. Let us help you out with a few of them…

1. Which is better? Prefinished or Unfinished?

Both flooring options have their pros and cons.

The pros to prefinished are pretty obvious, the flooring doesn’t need to be finished! You don’t have to worry about the dust, the polyurethane, the extra time it takes to finish the floor and let it dry, or the smell. The cons are that, while there are a lot of great colors and styles available, if you can’t find the exact color you’re looking for, you’re not getting that color.


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Engineered Hardwood vs. Solid Hardwood

Author Frank Heacox 1 Comment on Engineered Hardwood vs. Solid Hardwood Categories Engineering, Hardwood, Material

When you’re looking for a new wood floor, do you really know what you’re looking at? Many people choose something aesthetically pleasing; but what are you actually choosing for your home?

Many times there is a negative connotation about engineered hardwood flooring, people think that it’s a lesser product because it’s not solid; well, I’m here to set the record straight!


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The Strength And Durability Of Your Hardwood Flooring Installation

Author Frank Heacox Leave a comment Categories Flooring, Hardwood, Installation, Unfinished

The durability of your hardwood floors is not just in the quality of the wood used; it’s in the installation as well. You could purchase the best wood in the world, it won’t mean anything if it’s not installed correctly. The last thing you want to see in your new floor is moving, cracking, and lifting! When your new floors are installed, there are a few basic steps that need to be taken to ensure quality and durability…

Step One: Remove the old flooring:

Old flooring is, often times, NOT something you can just lay the new floor over and pretend it’s not there. Think about it, the base of anything literally lays the foundation for any project. You wouldn’t start a row of paver stones when you know the ground is not smooth, right? Your wall will eventually just topple over. The same way with flooring; if your old flooring or subfloor (most of the time plywood) isn’t smooth, your new floor won’t be either.

Because of this, we rip up the old flooring and either sand down the subfloor to make it smooth, or replace it all together.

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Hardwood buffing

Author Frank Heacox Leave a comment Categories Buffing, Flooring, Hardwood

If you want to provide your hardwood flooring with a renewed look, it can be achieved through hardwood buffing. When recoating wood floors, it has been recognized as an affordable option to revive dull looking or worn out hardwood flooring. Nevertheless, the procedure is not for all floors. Hardwood flooring that has been prominently scarred or scratched on the top layer could not be recoated anymore. In case like that you should consider wood floor refinish. If you are planning on recoating wood floors in your home, it is better to check this article.


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Hardwood floor maintenance

Author Frank Heacox Leave a comment Categories Flooring, Hardwood, Maintenance

Wood floor maintenance is very important to sustain a brilliant surface as well as extend the life of the hardwood floor. Cleaning wood floors is only a part of the regular maintenance requirements.

Wood floors need to be protected in areas of moderate to heavy traffic by using a good quality mat or rug. The floor also needs to be protected from the weight of furniture whether they are stationary or being moved about the floor. Floor protectors or a mat should be placed under any part of furniture in contact with the wood floor. This prevents scratches, indentations, et cetera.


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Seasonal Changes of Cape Cod Hardwood Floors

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For the last few years hardwood flooring has became a new trend for home kitchens. Every second design magazin would have tons of pictures of kitchens with hardwood floors. In this article I will describe pros and cons as well as some key factors you need to consider.

Summer’s just around the corner in Cape Cod, and you know what that means – lazy days at West Dennis beach or any other favorite, followed by something to eat at Longfellow Restaurant over in Yarmouth. The warmer temperatures generally bring out the best in people and, as it happens, the worst general humidity – for Cape Cod’s Hardwood Floors. Much like hardwood floors anywhere else, they are susceptible to humidity throughout the year. But what kind of changes can you expect? Below we look at possible seasonal changes to your Cape Cod hardwood floor, and how to prevent any potential damage.


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Oil-based vs water-based finish

Author Frank Heacox Leave a comment Categories Flooring, Hardwood, Refinish

“What’s the difference between oil-based and water-based finish” is one the most common question among homeowners that plan to install or refinish hardwood floors. These two finishes have major differences and should be discussed in detail. We will do side-by-side comparisons here to get better idea about the two.

Let’s start from a look:

 

  • Oil-based materials have a warm, yellowish color. Once applied, they make hardwood stand out more and make the entire room look warmer. Oil-based finishes tend to darken with time, so we always recommend moving furniture once in a while. In general, you can see some differences a couple years after application. Once applied, any color stain will saturate and deepen a color. If white stain is applied, a dull yellowish color is the result.
  • Water-based material has a white to transparent color. The final result looks a bit dull but more constant throughout the entire floor. If your hardwood has a lot of shades due to knots or material character, water-based material would cover some of them for you. If used with any stain, final result is more dull. It is recommended that water-based stain be used only with light or white stains. Latex (water-based material) also has better UV protection, but still can be affected by strong direct light – it tends to fade with time.

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Wood Sanding and Finishing

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Hardwood Refinish

By hardwood refinishing we understand sanding of old hardwood and applying new coats of finish on it. Hardwood can be finished with polyurethane, paint or latex. The main point of hardwood finishing is to add protection layer to it. Wood itself is pretty exposed to water or dirt damages. Water damage can leave huge black stains on the wood. Those stains are hard to remove. It’s almost impossible to determine if water did go deep enough or it’s just a top surface damage. That is why not all the wood refinishers can guarantee water damage stain removal by sanding. The most confident way to remove water-damage stains is to replace wood boards (if possible) with new ones. In other hand dirt damage is easier to remove since it doesn’t penetrate in to the hardwood.

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