Interior Design Tips for Floors

Mastering the Flush Wood to Tile Transition Without Metal Strips Most guys skip the leveling compound. They think the underlayment will hide the dip. It won’t. I spent three days grinding concrete on a job last month just so the floor wouldn’t click like a castanet. The homeowner wanted a clean line from the kitchen […]

Listen. I have spent thirty years standing on these showroom floors, smelling the sharp scent of floor wax and the metallic tang of new ceramic, and I can tell you one thing for certain. A floor is not a decoration. It is a structural engineering project that most people treat like a cheap area rug. […]

I spent three days grinding concrete on a job last month just so the floor wouldn’t click like a castanet. Most guys skip the leveling compound. They think the underlayment will hide the dip. It won’t. I have spent twenty five years on my knees with a moisture meter and a level and I can […]

I smell like oak dust and the sharp sting of WD-40 most days. My hands are calloused from twenty-five years of swinging a mallet and dragging a level across thousands of square feet of subfloor. I view a floor as a high-performance structural machine, not a cosmetic decoration you pick out of a catalog. I […]

I view a floor as a performance surface, not a decoration. My hands have the calluses and the permanent dusting of white oak particles to prove it. Most guys skip the leveling compound. They think the underlayment will hide the dip. It won’t. I spent three days grinding concrete on a job last month just […]

Most guys skip the leveling compound. They think the underlayment will hide the dip. It won’t. I spent three days grinding concrete on a job last month just so the floor wouldn’t click like a castanet. That is the reality of professional flooring. If you do not respect the subfloor, the subfloor will humiliate you […]

I spent three days grinding concrete on a job last month just so the floor wouldn’t click like a castanet. That job taught me that whether you are dealing with a concrete slab or a thin veneer of luan, the structure underneath is what dictates the success of the finish. Most guys skip the leveling […]

Most guys skip the leveling compound. They think the underlayment will hide the dip. It won’t. I spent three days grinding concrete on a job last month just so the floor wouldn’t click like a castanet. That job was a hallway, forty feet long and only forty-eight inches wide. If I had laid those planks […]

Most guys skip the leveling compound. They think the underlayment will hide the dip. It won’t. I spent three days grinding concrete on a job last month just so the floor wouldn’t click like a castanet. That job taught me that if the slab is out by even 3/16 of an inch over 10 feet, […]

The Master Guide to Transitioning Hardwood to a Sunken Living Room I spent three days grinding concrete on a job last month just so the floor wouldn’t click like a castanet. Most guys skip the leveling compound. They think the underlayment will hide the dip. It won’t. I walked into a job where the previous […]