Wood Floor Inspections: Help or Hindrance?; Home Price Gains Best in Seven Years

Inspections Are Supposed to Help Our Industry, Not Hurt It A wood flooring inspection is supposed to be a service to the industry—a process that figures out why things went wrong when a floor fails and fairly determines … Q&As: Defect Allowance, Nailing Strandwoven & Staining Maple I have a customer complaining about defects in her floor I just installed. I told her I’m allowed up to 5 percent defects, but she isn’t buying it. Who’s … Forbes: Monopoly in Forest Certification Bad for Environment, Market In a recent editorial for Forbes magazine’s website, economic analysts Wayne Winegarden and Donald Rieck say that a monopoly, even in forest … Upcoming Farm Bill to Include Biopreferred Changes, Biomass Incentives, More Last week, the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee released its recommendations for the Farm Bill. The recommendations contain several … Video: Western Banks Financing Illegal Logging in Southeast Asia As land becomes scarce in Vietnam, Vietnamese rubber companies have begun grabbing land in Cambodia and Laos, clearing great swaths of forest and … Scott Schulz Joins Aacer Flooring Scott Schulz is the new Midwestern regional sales manager for distribution for Aacer Flooring (Peshtigo, Wis.). Schulz brings 18 year of experience to the job, … NAR: Home Price Gains Best in Seven Years The National Association of Realtors reports that first quarter national median home prices in metropolitan areas showed the best year-over-year gains in over seven … Vermont Natural Coatings to Support Local Agriculture With Naked Table To raise money for The Center for an Agricultural Economy, Vermont Natural Coatings will be hosting a “locavore” lunch on July 14 in Hardwick, Vt., to be eaten … China Must Ensure Timber Demand Not Destroying Thai World Heritage Site In the ongoing battle over Siamese rosewood being illegally harvested from Thailand’s United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization … U.S. Exports to Southern EU Nations Dropping As Spain and Italy battle political and economic strife, their demand for U.S. hardwood has fallen by more than 40,000 cubic meters compared to 2011, … HF Briefs: Used Equipment for Sale; Coswick Debuts Line at Dance Contest Coswick Hardwoods Inc. (Mississauga, Ont.) introduced its new Portable Dance and Events engineered hardwood flooring at April’s 2013 WDSF European … HF Blogs: Getting Stuff Done on the Job Site on the Fly After reading Avi’s last post about getting stuff done on the job without power tools, it got me to thinking: What things have we done to get the … New Reader Comments:   Why Bamboo, Composite, Engineered & Prefinished Floors Are Not Green Seems I read somewhere we have more 50% more timber reforested in the US than 50 years ago. Not exactly like the Brazilian rain forest. Anyway exotics, … How to Prevent Wood Floor Gaps in Winter This is well written and jjust what I was looking for to see how to treat the flooring of a house that was vacant in the winter. 5 Wood Flooring Installation Sins What is the proper direction to run hardwood flooring by a bay window? Do I go the opposite direction or keep it the same as the rest of the floor? … Where’s the Green in Surfaces? I am fortunate to service the higher end wood floor contractors. Whether it is the wood and or the finish I have seen for at least the last six years … Can Wood Floor Guys and Designers Get Along? Hey, Joe. Good to see you around and very good points. All valid. We, the wood flooring contractors, back our quality and stand by our customers down … EPA Fines 17 Companies for Lead RRP Rule Violations I own Window World of Harford. I want to make all contractors aware of what they are against when it comes to the EPA. I was fined because one of … HF Briefs: Used Belt Sanders for Sale, Erickson's Celebrates 70 Years in Business Congrats. Good family, great customers! Always enjoyed calling on you! Low Moisture Ruins This Engineered Floor Could you clarify the point about the window treatments allowing the afternoon sun to stream in and cause all sorts of havoc? Is the wood in front of the … Shamrock Adds Plant in North Mississippi Congratulations to Jack and the great people at Shamrock! Best of luck with your new venture. On the HF Forum:   please evaluate this refinsh job Hi guys, I just had my floors refinished last week by a pro. He was recommended by a neighbor; more expensive than the other guys I interviewed but really … Moisture in air causing flooring problems?? See it just goes to show we CAN control any environment to receive wood floor Old growth oak over radiant Also, contractor says Old Growth White Oak is less prone to warping so doesn't need to be quarter sawn. Is this correct? Meeting In a little over a week the Guild will be meeting with professors from two universities to plan / develop the next class specifically for Engineered Wood … Old growth oak over radiant My contractor is already halfway through installing 5" wide old growth 3/4" white oak glued directly to sleepers with a new radiant system. It is not quarter sewn, … Moisture in air causing flooring problems?? Jim, Indoor RH is a little more complex than pulling it off the web. I checked the website you referenced and all they are using is psychometric chart and made … Duraseal stain Hey Pantera858- I missed it. Do you have adhesion problems between the stain and sealer coat? I stopped using duraseal stains because not only I but a … Duraseal stain Ive been sanding over 15 yrs, all of a sudden I got 2 jobs this is happening too.Ive done some scrappy jobs but never had this issue.Unfortunately one job is … Enjoy, I can beat those...I have a refinish Monday that is beyond description. I will post photos soon. Sucupira I'm sorry, but Sucupira is not a "dirtier" Cumaru. It's unfortunate that all these made up names came to be for marketing purposes. Sucupira has some oil in … Why does my hardwood floor smell odor? - Chesapeak Does the foam, flooring, or adhesive contain any added Urea Formaldehyde? 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