Wood floor guidance written from the work, for New Jersey houses.
Every figure here cites its source, and several of these articles conclude that you should not buy the service they describe.
Refinishing & Sanding
Refinishing sands a wood floor back to bare wood and rebuilds the finish on top.
Installation
Installing a wood floor is mostly a moisture problem wearing a carpentry disguise.
Repair & Restoration
Three things damage New Jersey wood floors more than anything else: water events, pet urine, and a century of wear on housing…
Stairs & Commercial
Stairs and commercial floors are the same material as a living room floor with entirely different constraints.
Repair & Restoration
There are only four things anyone can do to a worn wood floor, and two tests you can run yourself decide which one you are in.
Installation
Species is usually presented as a hardness ranking, which is the least useful way to choose one.
Refinishing & Sanding
The EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting rule requires certified firms and contained work practices whenever a job disturbs…
Installation
Most of what separates a competent flooring contractor from an expensive mistake is checkable before anyone sets foot in your…
Installation
The choice between solid and engineered flooring is decided by what is under the floor, not by what the room is used for.
Refinishing & Sanding
Most articles about refinishing are written to sell refinishing.
Refinishing & Sanding
The choice between oil-modified and waterborne polyurethane comes down to three things: colour, odour and schedule.
Refinishing & Sanding
Dustless sanding runs the equipment through a vacuum and containment system, usually HEPA-filtered, so most dust is captured…
This is a contractor's blog, not a content farm. Every article here goes through the same standard before it is published.
These articles come from floors we have actually sanded in New Jersey houses. Where we have not done something, we do not write about it as though we had.
Moisture tolerances cite NWFA guidelines. Test methods cite the ASTM standard by number. Housing figures cite the US Census, with the approximation stated. If a figure has no source, it does not go in.
When a standard is revised or a figure changes, we update the existing article and say so. We do not republish the same content under a new headline.
Each article has to add something the rest of the internet does not already have. If a topic already has fifty generic guides, we either bring data, a decision rule or a code citation — or we do not publish.
Several articles here end with the conclusion that the reader should not buy the service. That is the point. A homeowner who refinishes a floor that cannot take it becomes an unhappy customer, and we would rather lose the job than the reputation.
Ask it. If the answer is useful to other people, it becomes an article.
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