About Wood Flooring

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Please  feel free to contact us at 760-722-4469.  We can bring wood samples to  your home to help you choose the style that would look best in your  home.  We have distributors with showrooms you can visit to look at  different flooring.  Our hardwood flooring prices are different than  those found at retail stores.  Please continue reading for more  information about hardwood floors.

There  are 3 ways to install flooring. Nail down, Glue down and Floating.   Usually you nail to plywood floors and glue to concrete slabs.  Floors  can be floated on both.

Engineered  Flooring was made to be able to glue to slabs and be protected from  moisture.  This alone does not guarantee your wood is protected.  Always seal your slab to protect your wood. Engineered  flooring is also nailed to plywood and can be floated and glued  together at the tongue and groove.  The manufacturer recommendation  needs to be observed for installation procedure for a valid warranty.
 

Concrete  slabs should be checked for moisture in order to protect your  investment and ensure no damage can come to your new wood floors. All concrete needs to be sealed  to protect your wood.  All paint and plaster needs to be removed, all  high spots ground down and low spots leveled with self leveling cement (Ardex)
 

Solid  flooring is nailed down and sanded.  There are solid prefinished floors  which are nailed to plywood.  Solid wood should never be glued to  concrete.
 

We  sand all types of wood floors.  Although on occasion there may not be  enough wood left to sand or the flooring may be hand scraped.  We need  to look at your floor and decide what is best.
 

Your floor may only need a recoat.  One coat of finish over your old finish to give it the makeover it desperately needs. Never  put wax on your floors.  This will repel the finish.  The only way to  get old floors looking new again is to sand them.  We use oil modified  polyurathane finish and water based finish.  While sanding your floors  we can put down large areas of stain for you to choose from.