The foundation of your home's most beautiful spaces.
The foundation of your home's most beautiful spaces.
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 […]
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 massive master bathroom where the owner spent forty thousand dollars on Italian marble, only to […]
I spent twenty five years on my knees with a moisture meter and a level. My hands smell like WD-40 and oak dust even after three scrubs in the sink. I once walked into a house where a $15,000 wide-plank walnut floor was cupping so bad it looked like a potato chip because the installer […]
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 because the homeowner picked out these beautiful twelve by twenty-four dark basalt tiles but didn’t want to fix the […]
The hidden science of surface reflection and finish durability I once walked into a house where a $15,000 wide-plank walnut floor was cupping so bad it looked like a potato chip because the installer didn’t check the crawlspace humidity. It was a tragedy of engineering. People get caught up in the look of a floor, […]
