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Simple answers on floors, maintenance, materials, and long-term care.
Helpful flooring articles for Portland homeowners.
Prefinished Hardwood Vs Engineered | How Do They Differ?
When you are looking for hardwood floors, you’ll encounter several different builds and types. Sometimes, the manufacturers and retailers don’t properly explain the differences between the kinds of hardwood. Prefinished hardwood flooring, engineered hardwood flooring,...
Are Green and Sustainable Wood Floors the Same Thing?
If you have been in the market for hardwood flooring or just paying attention to recent trends, you’ve likely seen the terms “green” and “sustainable” used frequently. They’re often used for everything from coffee to trash bags to hardwood floors. They seem to be used...
Unfinished Wood Floors Are the Next Big Thing in Portland
When you buy a hardwood floor, the planks either come prefinished or site-finished. Site-finished is also called “unfinished.” That means that the planks have not been stained or sealed with oil or polyurethane. After they have been installed, the floor will be...
Mixing Hardwood Plank Widths Is The Hot New Trend
In most cases, a hardwood floor is made of planks of equal width and equal length. Each plank is probably about six inches wide and between eight and 12 inches long. Those are pretty standard measurements for hardwood flooring planks. However, many homeowners have...
Save Money with Varied-Width Hardwood Flooring
If you are buying your hardwood flooring from a store, you’ll likely find it available in cartons. A carton will over different amounts of space depending on the seller but usually a carton is about 25 square feet. However, when you buy your wood secondhand or as...
What Is a Basket Weave Hardwood Floor?
Basket weave hardwood flooring is a simple and beautiful way to add complexity and dimension to your hardwood floor. As the name indicates, a basket weave floor is one in which the wood looks to be woven like a basket. In a wicker basket, the individual strands run...
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