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FLOOR -- WOODEN x HARDWOOD FLOORING x WOOD FLOORING xx FLOOR How to lay oak flooring over concrete slabs. Tip: Quick camouflage for a beat-up floor uses house siding panels in 4x8 sheets. Living room converts for parties. Includes instructions for building a hard-surface dance floor, decorative light boxes, fold-down table, and window valance. Tip on how to stop squeaks in hardwood plank floors. Step-by-step guide to installing oak parquet flooring. How to replace a damaged plank in a wood floor. Tips on installing a hardwood floor in one day using prefinished planks over a polyethylene foam underlayment. Floating floors. What is available in laminate flooring for DIY projects. New floor, old look. Using reclaimed lumber to install a wooden floor. How to lay tongue and groove wooden flooring. Latest products in hardwood flooring, including cost factors, and maintenance tips. (1) Instant floor uses a unique clip system. (2) Installing laminated hardwood flooring using mastic. (3) Installing an inexpensive pine floor yourself. Advice on fixing squeeks in floors. Advice on how to deal with cracks between white pine flooring planks. Advice on replacing a section of damaged tile in a wooden parquet floor. How to silence a squeaky floor. Squeak-free wood floors. How to get rid of those irritating noises. Install your own hardwood floor using prefinished tongue-and-groove wood. Particleboard. An attractive, inexpensive flooring alternative. Particleboard "tiles" (about 11"x11") are separated with solid-wood strips. Wood flooring. Solid hardwood, engineered hardwood, high-density fibreboard laminate, parquet tile and cork flooring materials compared. How to lay a wide-board pine floor. How to lay wide-board pine floors. How to install hardwood parquet flooring using prefabricated 12" squares. Guidelines on floor and stair repair. How to repair wood, tile and linoleum floors and keep stairs and railing repaired. How to lay a parquet floor. Photos show step-by-step installation of the blocks. Prices range from $.70 to $3.75 per sq. foot. How to install wood tile floors (parquet flooring). Photos show 6 steps. Tip: How to smooth wide wood plank flooring by applying a coating of polyindurate compound. Tip on installing a wood floor over a cement slab. How to patch a hardwood floor and stain the repaired area to match the original. How to install prefinished oak flooring. Plus tips on caring for and refinishing a hardwood floor. Tips on eliminating squeaks in old parquet-style oak floors. Sanding a hardwood floor. How to do it when sanding is the only answer. Includes instructions for replacing damaged floorboards. Good ways to put down a wood floor over concrete. A buyers guide to do-it-yourself wood flooring. Where to find products that give your home the custom-designed look. A quick and easy hardwood floor. Prefinished hardwood flooring installs with adhesives, requiring only minimal tools or know-how. How to eliminate squeaks in hardwood floors. Wood floors. How to get the best hardwood floor. (1) Solid wood strip and plank. (2) Prefinished solid wood strip and plank. (3) Parquet. (4) Glue-down laminate. (5) Floating laminate. Tips on how to touch up scratches, gouges or holes in a wood floor. How to install a glue-down wooden floor. Living with traditional wood floors. Why floors loosen, squeak and crack and what you can do to prevent or correct these problems. Advice on keeping a floor in good shape. Tip on patching a hardwood floor where a wall has been removed so that it doesn't look patched-in. Installing a floating wood floor over concrete. Tip: How to repair cracks in pine flooring by inserting wedges of wood. Tips on fabricating and installing laminated wood floor boards. The board are hardwood top and bottom with a plywood center forming the tongue-and-groove. How to remove and salvage tongue-and-groove flooring with a minimum of effort or damage to the boards. Tip: Use a piece of leaf spring from an old car, instead of a nailset, when laying tongue-and-groove flooring. Hardwood strip flooring. How to lay out and install it. Floor sanding. Follow a pattern with powerful machines for best results. Tips on installing a hardwood floor over a radiant-heated concrete slab. Tips on laying a wooden floor of quartersawn red oak. Custom wood flooring. If you don't like the commercial offerings, here's how to find what you're after. Tips on applying a wood floor over a radiant-slab floor. Tips on installing hardwood flooring with screws and wood plugs. Tips: How to prepare and install random-width oak boards for use as flooring material. Tips on installing 3/4" butt-joined oak flooring. Laying a single layer plank-and-beam floor. Tips on combining narrow hardwood strips with wide softwood planks to form a unique wooden floor. Tips on installing end-grain blocks as a floor covering over a concrete slab. Tip: A wedge made from plank flooring is used to force warped planks into place prior to nailing. An uncommon application for particleboard. Floor covering consists of ordinary particleboard squares, set into a grid work of wooden strips, and coated with polyurethane. This durable and attractive floor costs only $0.60 per square foot. Discussion of moisture content of wooden flooring and its impact on shrinkage. Tip: Use a bumper jack to achieve a tight fit with T&G decking without marring the material. How to fabricate curved tongue-and-groove wood flooring strips for use in a circular pattern. Installing a plank floor. Wide boards demand careful persuasion. Installation advice on how to avoid cupping of wood flooring caused by unequal moisture levels above and below the floor. Decorative floor inlays of contrasting wood or metal. A simple technique with elegant results. How to make a convincing patch in a hardwood floor (one which features staggered ends in adjacent strips). Tip on installing exposed wooden biscuits across the joints of a squeaky tongue-and-groove floor to eliminate the movement. Ideal when the floor will be hidden under a floor covering. Installing hardwood floors over radiant-heated slabs. Problems associated with installing wood floors in a bathroom. Tip on using a #56 Pony clamp to force warped floorboards into place before nailing. A walk through wood floor options. Choosing among strip, plank, prefinished, solid and engineered floors. Tip on using a biscuit joiner to make quicker and more accurate cuts when replacing or repairing a piece of wood strip flooring. Tip on eliminating squeaks in wood floors by gluing the flooring to the subfloor using injected expanding-foam sealant. How to join short pieces of used hardwood tongue-and-groove flooring using unglued biscuits instead of cutting board-end tongues and grooves. Tips on laying wooden block floors with the end grain showing. How to install wood parquet flooring using preassembled blocks. How to install prefinished plank floors. How to lay a parquet floor using prefinished blocks. How to lay wood strip floors. The art of laying wood floors. Explains how to square up the room, underlayment, nailing, sanding and finishing. Installing and finishing oak floors. Three great wood floors. How to install both prefinished and unfinished wood flooring. How to install nail-less flooring. How to finish a pine floor. Tips on silencing squeaky wood flooring. Bordering on beautiful. Accents of stained oak and ceramic tile are used to unify two different flooring materials within a large, open-plan space. Upgrade a floor. Advice on installing a prefinished hardwood flooring system over an existing floor. Tips for eliminating squeaking in wood-parquet flooring. Three fast floors. Tips on installing prefinished hardwood flooring systems. (1) Floating floor system. (2) Metal-clip system. (3) Glue-down system. Wood floors for kitchens. Advice on proper installation and maintenance to resist wear and frequent washing. Replacement flooring. Product and installation tips for replacing a worn or dated floor with hardwood or vinyl. How to silence squeaks in second-floor hardwood floors without making holes in the downstairs ceiling. How to install a wood parquet floor. Fine wood flooring. What is available in prefinished wood flooring products and advice on do-it-yourself installation. Tips on reinforcing wood floors by repairing or installing bridging. Floor finery. Special details for wood floors and carpeting. Looks at decorative borders made from wood and carpet. How to lay a pegged, plank floor with adhesive using prefinished, bonded laminate flooring. A guide to refinishing and caring for wood floors. How to install A-wood flooring. How to lay parquet wood tiles with mastic. Tips on eliminating squeaks in tongue-and-groove flooring by nailing into the grooves with finishing nails. How to install prefinished hardwood flooring. Should you sand your own floors? Tips on renting and using floor sanding machines. How much money you can expect to save also discussed. What to do with old floors. Tips on repairing old oak floors and laying new oak strip flooring. Tips on installing your own prefinished hardwood plank floor. How to lay a perfect parquet floor. Installing hardwood flooring. Installing plank, thin plank, strip, or block flooring. Sanding and finishing hardwood flooring. Lay a flawless tongue-and-groove floor. How to keep those boards in line. New life for old wood floors. Covers cleaning, sanding and refinishing. Tips on repairing old wooden floors which have large spaces between the boards The reproduction of a Colonial floor. Laying and finishing a wide-board floor. Tip: How to deal with cracks between boards in an old wood floor. How to sand a parquet floor using a rented drum sander. Restoring a parquet floor. Tip: How to achieve the look of 200-year-old, heart-pine floors using yellow-pine, tongue-and-groove flooring stained and coated with polyurethane. Fixing hardwood floors. How to remove and replace tongue-and-groove floorboards. Cracks between floorboards in wooden floors. Understanding why some floor cracks appear and the pros and cons of various techniques for filling or concealing the cracks. Specialized tools for wood-flooring projects. Strip flooring kinks. Repair tips for tongue-and-groove wood floors. Survival guide. The best advice from 20 years of OHJ. (1) Where to begin a renovation. (2) Cleaning tips. (3) Saving old plaster. (4) Basic tools. (5) Do-it-yourself scaffolds. (6) Wood floor care and repair. (7) Stripping paint. Tip on using a padded T-brace to force down squeaky or loose floor boards prior to fastening from underneath. Perspectives on patterned floors. A restorer's notes on repairing decorative wood floors and their part in larger projects. How to repair wood floors without sacrificing the patina of age. A buyers' guide to wood flooring. Tip on lifting an individual board in a strip floor which has sunk lower than surrounding boards. Silencing squeaks in hardwood floors. How to lay hardwood floors. Installing parquet floors. Careful preparation is the key to a good-looking job. How to put down the subfloor of 2x4 sleepers and plywood necessary for a sound surface upon which to lay the parquet tile. Wood flooring. How to pick it, tips on installing and how to take care of it. How to choose and install a hardwood floor. Looks at plank, strip, and parquet block floors. How to remove tongue-and-groove lumber from a wall or floor without ruining adjacent boards. Tip: Use strips of rubber gasket material to shim and match thinner wooden flooring to older, thicker flooring. Distinctive floor covering is achieved with tongue-and-groove pine planking and a geometric "carpet" border mosaic of stained wood. Fantastic flooring. A do-it-yourself hardwood floor that features no-nailing installation. How to install Harris-Tarkett's "Longstrip Plank" floors. Installing prefinished hardwood flooring on walls and ceilings. Included in a SPECIAL SECTION on bathroom remodeling. Restoring wood floor. Some tips. Installing a hardwood-veneer planking kit floor. How to locate and stop squeaks in hardwood floors. Installing a floor of No.2 common pine boards. How to lay a wood block (squares) floor. A guide to wood flooring materials. Now anyone can lay parquet flooring using self-sticking foam-backed wood tile. A look at what's available in parquet floors that you can install yourself. Chart of brands, typical costs and typical patterns. Off-the-floor parquet. How to lay parquet tile on floors, walls, cabinets, etc. Laminated prefinished wood floors are easier to install and care for. What is available and tips on installation and care. Hardwood strip flooring. Selecting and installing prefinished or unfinished hardwood flooring. Patching hardwood floors by installing replacement subflooring and/or finish flooring. Entryways. Suggestions from designers on ways to correct situations where entryways open directly into a main room of the house. Insert shows how to install a ceramic tile insert in a hardwood floor in an entryway. How to install a parquet floor using self-adhesive hardwood tiles. How to cut and lay your own wood parquet floor from scrap lumber. Tip shows how a hardwood strip floor was made to look like parquet by grooving and staining a lattice design. Softwood floors gain new acceptance as flooring. A look at the need to give them a durable finish. Tip: Use thick slices of 8x8 fir beams as parquet flooring material. Tip on making a parquet floor from painted plywood squares. Floors that will fool you. A guide to laminated-wood and plastic-laminate flooring. Advice on their installation and care. Patching damaged wood floors. Replacing a piece of oak-strip flooring. Wood flooring and which type works best. Answers to the most frequently asked questions. Customized wood flooring. Woodworker's home improvement guide to creating a special look. (1) Selecting flooring material. (2) Ways to pattern a floor. (3) Ways to border a floor. (4) Add drama with medallions and inlays. (5) Color a floor with paint. (6) Installing a wood floor. Tips on laying tongue-and-groove wood flooring using "secret nailing" (blind nailing). Tips on preparing mahogany blocks for use as parquet flooring. Tips on preparing the sub-floor to receive the blocks. Laying hardwood floors over concrete. Tips on installing self-sticking wood floor tiles. How to install hardwood parquet flooring. Parquet flooring used to update entryway and family room. Tips on laying parquet flooring. Tips on silencing squeaks caused by improper installation of thin pre-finished oak flooring over another floor. How to repair squeaky floors when you can have access to the subfloor. | |||||||||
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