hardwood floor installation and maintenance: Hardwood Floor Installation and Maintenance - 08/14/10 09:45 AM
Hardwood flooring's greatest enemy is water. Follow these tips on hardwood floor installation, prep and cleaning to get the most out of your beautiful new floors.
Hardwood flooring's biggest enemy is water. Water causes wood to swell. This swelling can cause warping, twisting, cupping, edge crush, etc. to occur. Sometimes the flooring will recover and sometimes it won't. The trick is to avoid introducing water to your hardwood floor.  Water can occur either as a solid, a liquid, or a vapor. The liquid and vapor states are the ones that cause the most problems for wood flooring. Water in the liquid … (0 comments)