Recent Articles

Cleaning Up - Chris Zizza
Using dustless sanding was a great leap for this wood flooring contractor.

On the Record - Steve Lange
Establish a records retention schedule for your business

Looking at Lacey - Elizabeth Baldwin
Use the Lacey Act to help promote legal wood flooring in your business.

From the Jungle - John Vick
How one company uses sustainable harvesting to create exotic cumaru flooring.

Matching Oak, Chatter and More - Rusty Swindoll, Bill Price Sr., Genia Smith
Questions answered on matching existing flooring, drum sander chatter and resanding engineered flooring.

Under the Microscope - Andrew St. James
Understand the science of water and wood for better floors.

Lead Laws - Robin Pharo
Contractors must cope with a host of new rules after EPA's latest lead paint law took effect

Insect Invasion - Peter Fahey
A customer gets antsy about this insect problem.

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Contractor Blog - Wayne Lee

How to Get Supplies in the Boonies? The day went well and the job is done. Two things came to mind today. One: Even if we are not ...

Pee, Mice and Hoarders! The Pee House is down to the last coat, thank you very much, but wait,  now we have a house ...

Exit Plan from a Nasty Job Today’s job was a job site in Jackson, Tenn., a good 1 1/2 drive away to repair water damage and ...

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Green Blog - Elizabeth Baldwin

Let's Acknowledge "Wood is Good" Currently LEED recognizes only FSC-certified material as being able to contribute credits to LEED certified projects. Many have advocated that ...

Ask Your Supplier for LKS Part of my tour in South America was done as a GFTN Mission. The GFTN (Global Forest Trade Network) is ...

Banning Tropical Timber = Burning Tropical Timber I recently returned from a six-week, five-country tour of the South American flooring industry. I was delighted by how healthy ...

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Inspector Blog - Craig DeWitt

Making a Grown Man Cry One aspect of being an inspector is that someone is unhappy. I answer the phone and am talking to an ...

What the Bass and Wood Floors Have in Common Proper acclimation of wood flooring is something that comes up with every job. The goal is to get wood to ...

Practicing on the Customer's Floor Just when I have an experience with a good installer, I end up with one with a poor installer.  Or ...

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News

Mullican Donates Flooring for HGTV Giveaway Mullican Flooring (Johnson City, Tenn.) has provided 800 square feet of walnut ebony brown hardwood flooring from the company’s ¾-inch-thick ...

Floor Style Products Opens California Branch Floor Style Products has opened an office, warehouse and repair facility in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. Andres Zuniga, who has ...

Cali Bamboo Receives Acclaim Cali Bamboo (San Diego) was ranked 1,355 in Inc. Magazine's Inc. 5,000 list of fastest growing companies. The list ranks ...

Hardwood Flooring Attack Ends in Gunfire Two brothers attacked a Jefferson County, Ala., man with wood flooring Wednesday evening, according to The Birmingham News, and the ...

Scientists Make Wood Adhesive From Tofu Ingredient Scientists meeting at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society announced development of new soy-based glues made with ...

Healthier Choice Flooring Acquires Flexitions Healthier Choice Flooring (Dalton, Ga.), an acoustic underlayment and carpet cushion manufacturer, has acquired Flexitions LLC. Flexitions LLC manufactures a ...

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New Products

StareCasing Systems' hardwood overlay system transforms carpeted or worn stairs into solid hardwood. The company says there is no need to tear out, cut off or modify existing stair treads. The product is available in 36-, 42- and 48-inch widths in a variety of species and finishes.

Wagner Electronics' Rapid RH 4.0 with Easy Reader features patent-pending Touch-n-Sense technology. The Easy Reader works instantly when inserted into any Wagner 4.0-version Smart Sensor. It displays relative humidity and temperature for five minutes before shutting off.

PoloPlaz has made its polyurethane products available in mylar quart bags. The quart bags are packaged in a plastic pail Poloplaz dubs the "Quart Caddy," and each Caddy contains sixteen individually packed and resealable quart bags. The finishes are available in gloss, semi-gloss, satin and matte sheens.

Bona US has improved its abrasive screens. They now feature a full resin bond, more consistent scratch pattern and excellent grain retention. The 16-inch abrasives are available in grits 60, 80, 100, 120, 150, 180 and 220.

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