Questions tagged [hardwood]
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What could cause moisture on my bonus room floor?
Last week during a cold snap with high winds. I discovered moisture along the floor on one side of my bonus room, above the attached garage. Their was enough moisture that the baseboard molding ...
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Hardwood loose, has gap over radiant floor
Just bought a new place with white oak hardwood and radiant heating.
The hardwood is 3/4" (verified). Floor has developed gaps in certain areas. One area in particular is loose when I walk on it, so ...
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Can I install 3/8" engineered Hickory hardwood over a painted OSB subfloor?
We bought a large badly abused foreclosed home to restore. The home exists in an area where hardwoods throughout are the norm for resale and engineered wood in the same where good product is used and ...
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Failing Finish on Resurfaced Hardwood Floor Renovation: What's the correct course of action?
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My wife and I recently purchased a 1250 sq. ft. condo that needed some simple renovations. The first floor is entirely Number 1 Common Red Oak, which had likely last been installed 10-15 ...
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Building a desk-Does it need reinforcement?
I'm build a computer desk, but I've been agonizing over the build because I'm concerned that there might not be enough support. These are the details:
Table top: Teak butcher block with a live edge ...
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acclimating new hardwood, southwestern Ontario, during the winter
first time question in this forum.
I am expecting delivery of new hickory hardwood flooring in the next few weeks. I've been doing a lot of reading about acclimation. General guidelines specify ...
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Plywood over hardwood underlying a poured bathroom floor?
In this 1954 New Mexico home, in the bathroom there is plywood apparently laid over the hardwood floors. But it seems to be actually sunk below the 'grade' of the hardwood. Additionally, there is what ...
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New hardwood floor crackles
It would be really great if someone could give me some advice on the following issue:
Last year I bought a house and had a hardwood floor installed (solid hardwood, stapled on plywood over crawlspace)...
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Installing Plywood Underlayment over Plywood Subfloor
We are renovating an apartment and trying to install a 3/4'' solid hardwood floor in the living room. We pulled out the existing carpet along with a 5/8''particle board underlayment. Under that we ...
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Do I need to remove the adhesive from peel & stick vinyl when putting hardwood with rosin paper?
I am removing peel and stick vinyl from plywood and will be putting nailed 3/4 in hardwood in its place. Do I need to get all of the adhesive up or is it ok to just put my rosin paper or other ...
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Fixing sloping hardwood floor in rental apartment
I just moved into a rental apartment in the top floor of a 1900 building with a very old hardwood floor. The floor looks attractive, except the whole room is on a slant. I estimate that one side of ...
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sticky popping sounds coming from under my newly laid hardwood floors
i have a very annoying and frustrating problem. there are sticky popping sounds coming from under my newly laid hardwood floors. there is a underlay on cement base and the installer swears that he ...
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What are my options for handling kitchen floor/dining room floor height differences?
I'm reflooring both my kitchen and the adjoining rooms. The kitchen will be tile and the Living Room/Dining Room will be engineered hardwood. I'm going down to the joists in the kitchen because the ...
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Do I need to remove this residue from my floor and if so, how?
We’re in the process of laying down vinyl planks and want to tackle the kitchen next. We recently removed glued down hardwood and are left with this. We’ve tried sanding the residue down and it hasn’t ...
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How to reduce the cross section of a beech profile
What I have: A planed beech square 20 mm by 20 mm, length is 1 meter.
What I want: A number of short (5 or 6 cm) pieces, but with a reduced cross section of only 20 mm by 16 mm. I could reduce the ...
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How can I level an old kitchen?
I'm trying to level my old hardwood floor in my kitchen to install snap together vinyl on top. I sanded most of the high spots but I would like to use floor leveler to get it nicer.
I sistered the ...
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Best way to install T moulding
I am installing hardwood T moulding between my new hardwood floor and a tile floor. I tried just nailing down a test piece but I found the slight flex in the moulding causes squeaks with the nails. ...
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Floor paint stripping
OK, so I decided to strip a heavy black paint and what not on top of it from the hardwood floors in a 100+ year old house I purchased recently. To that end I purchased a $150 stripping tool ("...
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second floor walls short?
Live in the US. House is from 1972. I am trying to run some cable from the attic to the basement and the only real path is behind my closet in a room on the second floor. Need to drill a hole ...
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Wood filler between old and new hardwood strip flooring?
House was built in 1983 and had 2-3/4" strip flooring on most of the main floor. When we bought the house in Winter of 2020, we had the two remaining rooms stripped of carpet and had hardwoods to ...
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How can I tell if this is a wood stain or a gloss coat so that I can match the finish
Part of stairs that weren't finished by the previous owner for unknown reasons. I want to finish to match, but not sure if I am supposed to use a wood stain, varnish, or if I can use a polyurethane ...
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Old floor blending with new
We have two very different colors of floor, new vs old. We liked the rich color of the old wood when we applied wood conditioner. This same color can be achieved with red oak stain on the new, so ...
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Staining an ipe deck
So, I’m installing an ipe deck in the coming weeks. I will stain with a basic UV protector.
I’ve never stained this much square footage before. My (dumb) question is how do you wipe off excess stain?...
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How can I flatten a hardwood floor in preparation for new flooring over it?
I have a second floor with T/G hardwood flooring that is in very bad shape. I have decided the easiest solution for me is to float new engineered hardwood over top of the old hardwood. There is no ...
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Uneven floor and pending joints
We found out after buying the house, when sanding the floors, that it’s uneven. We looked in basement to find out that there is wood pending between the joints.
Is this normal for house built in 1960?
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Which side of wood deck boards should face up?
We're making a roof terrace using wood deck boards. The two sides of the deck board differ, with small/large grooves. Which side should face up, is this purely an aesthetic choice or is there ...
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Re-Staining Factory Finished Maple Hardwood Darker Tones
I'm pretty familiar with the cosmetic remodeling trades (plumbing, electricity, drywall, and tile) and reasonably handy.
I'm closing on a 15 year old house, with 2,800 sq. ft. of orange / mahogany ...
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Wood floor Transition Strip
I’m working room-by-room in my house removing old wood flooring and installing new Cali Bamboo flooring. Because Bamboo expands and contracts so much, the manufacturer suggests using transition ...
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How to deal with a small concrete patch in hardwood floor install
I am installing 3/4 inch oak throughout my first floor. The install is over the original pine, which sits directly on the joists. I put 1/4 OSB over the pine (due to a number of factors 5/8" wasn't ...
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How do I go about leveling out streak marks in my wood stain?
I used knotty alder wood and sanded to 320 with a random orbital sander.
Knotty Alder
Min-Wax Pre-Stain Conditioner
Min-Wax Oil-Based Stain
Applied with t-shirt rag
I see streak marks in my staining ...
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How do I get the most out of cracked lumber?
I'm about to build my first* large project with real hardwood, and because random widths and lengths lumber is so much cheaper than standard cut lumber (and typical cut lumber sizes are often not even ...
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Refinish Part of Hardwood Floor?
I have a large spot on my floors where an office chair has been rolling back and forth on for years. The spot is now a bit worn and the finish on the surface has faded over time. In the photo, bottom ...
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Bamboo 3/8" hardwood nailer
I am having a hard time finding a nailer that take cleats and has a plate for 3/8 hardwood bamboo. Could I use either 1/4 or 1/2 plates? This is my first time nailing down a hardwood floor and want ...
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removing a transition strip between linoleum and hardwood
I am going to tile an entrance way that is currently linoleum. The transition strip between the linoleum and a hardwood floor is glued down, it appears that it may be construction adhesive, very ...
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Steam mop hardwood floors
How bad would it be to steam mop hardwood floors once? I got new flooring through my house and then had to have a lot of drywall work done. The floors were not covered (I didn't know better). I've ...
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How should I terminate a flooring transition where it meets door casing?
I’m refinishing my hardwood floors(they were covered with carpet) and I have a height difference going from the dining room to the engineered wood floor in the kitchen of about 3/4”.
I found the ...
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Redo of hardwood floors didn’t remove all poly
I refinished my sunroom’s hardwood floors. It used to be an open porch. When I applied the poly, I noticed swirls and scratch marks and decided to redo them again. The floors are now even, polished ...
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What is the cheapest/laziest way to touch up discolored hardwood?
I rent, so the amount of money and labor I am looking to invest in my floors is small. That said, there are a number of spots where the hardwood has a sort of "dead" look that I wouldn't ...
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Stuck parquet hardwood flooring
I'm doing a reno project and when we demo'd the old parquet hardwood floor, half of it came up no problem.. the other half is stuck badly to the older hardwoods underneath. They used some type of ...
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