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HowExpert guide to hardwood flooring : how to install and maintain hardwood floors / HowExpert with Marc Hagan.

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[Place of publication not identified] : HowExpert, [2020]

Flooring, Wooden -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Floors -- Maintenance and repair -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

9781648912948 (paperback)

164891294X (paperback)

99 pages ; 21 cm

Recommended resources -- Publisher's foreword -- Introduction: History of hardwood flooring -- Hardwood flooring today -- Chapter 1: Knowing your subfloor: Tearing up the existing floor: Removal of baseboards -- Tearing up carpet -- Tearing up floating floors-- Tearing up nailed down floors -- Tearing up glued down floors -- Tearing up tile -- Checking the quality of the subfloor -- Wood subfloors -- Concrete subfloors -- Chapter 2: Picking your product -- Raw wood -- Manufactured wood -- Wood-like products -- Laminate -- Vinyl plank flooring -- Chapter 3: Preparing the subfloor: Wood subloors -- Raw wood -- Engineered hardwood -- Floating floors -- Concrete subfloors: Raw wood -- Engineered hardwood -- Floating floors -- Glue down or peel and stick vinyl -- Chapter 4: Installation: Raw wood: Nailed to wooden subfloor -- Getting the straight-line down -- Installation -- Nailed to 3/4 Inch plywood over concrete -- Nailed to sleepers -- Engineered hardwood: Nailed down -- Glued down -- Installed as a floating floor -- Straight-line method -- Off of the wall method -- Floating floors other than engineered hardwood -- Glued down and peel and stick vinyl -- Chapter 5: Sanding, staining, and finishing: Sanding -- Sanding for a natural coat -- Sanding for a stained floor -- Staining -- Finishing: Oil-based finish -- Water-based finish -- Chapter 6: Trim -- Trim: Baseboard -- Base shoe and quarter round -- End caps, T-moldings, reducers and other transitions -- Chapter 7: Maintenance: Maintenance: Raw wood -- Engineered hardwood -- Laminate -- Vinyl -- Conclusion.

"Here is what you will learn inside: An instructional guide on how to install and maintain hardwood floors. Includes instructions on how to remove an old floor as well as any existing baseboard. Provides simple step by step instructions on how to check the quality of the subfloor the new flooring will be installed on. Goes through descriptions and pros and cons of wood and wood-like products to help better determine which may be best for one's situation. Describes the process of getting a subfloor ready for installation of different products. Tells you which tools and materials one will need to complete the installation process. Goes through step by step process of installing different products from start to finish. Goes through the process of sanding a raw wood floor to either put a natural coat on it or stain it another color. Describes the differences as well as the different processes of oil-based and water-based finishes. Goes through the different types of trim and transition needed to complete a floor. Tells how to install different trim options and how to put on the finishing touches. Describes how to maintain different products and whether said products will be repaired if necessary. Read HowExpert Guide to Hardwood Flooring today! About the Expert Marc Hagan has been involved in the hardwood flooring industry in California for over 20 years. His father has been sanding, staining, refinishing hardwood floors, and installing new ones since Marc was six years old. Marc and his two older brothers would go with their father and observe the hardwood flooring process. One of his older brothers started his own hardwood flooring business after five years of working in the industry. Shortly after, Marc came along to help his brother with his business. Marc has been working with his older brother at his hardwood flooring business for over five years now. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts"--Page [4] of cover.

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