70 pages, with color photographs and diagrams to help you select the right hardwood for your project. Includes information and forms on selection, estimating, budgeting, tools & supplies needed, preparation, installation, and more.

This is not a book written by a writer or editor, but by an experienced hardwood flooring contractor. There is no substitute for the experience and years of installing and finishing hardwood floors that is behind the writing of this manual. Covers selection, budgeting, tools & supplies, preparation, installation, sanding, finishing, and more.

"Hardwood Floors for Juveniles" is a finished helper uniquely crafted to those new to the universe of hardwood flooring. Fledglings can certainly pick, introduce, and keep up with hardwood floors with the assistance of this guide's fundamental data and supportive clues. Starting with a blueprint of hardwood flooring types, species, and fulfillments, this guide covers all that novices require to know to seek after informed decisions. The upsides of hardwood floors, how to quantify and work out materials, and the apparatuses required for establishment will be covered for the perusers. "Hardwood Floors for Fledglings" dismantles the establishment cycle by giving clear guidelines and delineations on points like subfloor arrangement, design arranging, and proper establishment techniques. Besides, the helper provides guidance on ceaseless help and psyche to ensure persevering through greatness and strength. "Hardwood Floors for Novices" serves as a fundamental resource for achieving proficient, high-quality results in hardwood flooring establishment and support, whether you're a mortgage holder embarking on a Do-It-Yourself project or a new hire looking to expand your skills.

If you want to learn how to install and maintain hardwood floors, then get HowExpert Guide to Hardwood Flooring. 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.

Provides tips on how to refinish a basement, from obtaining permits and choosing flooring, to installing lighting fixtures and picking out complimentary furniture.

This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

BLACK+DECKER Wood Floors is the definitive DIYers guide to everything you need to know about installing, repairing, and maintaining wood, engineered wood, and laminate floors. Solid wood, engineered wood, or laminate floors can enhance the beauty of any room in a home. Wood creates visual warmth, is available in a wide variety of colors and grain patterns, and is durable enough to last a half century or more when installed and maintained properly. While home interior trends change, and some of the flooring options may come and go with them, but the popularity of wood flooring does not wane. And now, with BLACK+DECKER Wood Floors, DIYers with moderate tool skills can tackle a wood-flooring project and enjoy the cost savings that go along with their successful efforts. This intuitive guide covers all phases of basic wood, engineered wood, and laminate flooring installation--from preliminary surveys of flooring choices, tools, and prep work through finishing and reinstalling trim. Of course, not all wood-flooring situations require removal and replacement. Amateur home remodelers will appreciate a chapter devoted to repairing and restoring existing wood flooring.