From your Experts at TriArt
Here you’ll find guides, tips, and helpful advice on all things flooring. Whether you are planning a new hardwood floor, fixing a problem, or learning how to care for your floors, we’re here to make the process easier.
Expect roughly $9 to $19 per square foot all in, which is a modest premium over a straight hardwood installation into an empty room. The carpet removal itself is one of the cheaper parts. What varies is what the... Continue Reading
We refinish floors for a living, which means we see the end result of a decade of cleaning habits. The floors that hold up are not the ones that get cleaned most often. They are the ones cleaned with the right amount... Continue Reading
Finish is the layer you actually walk on. The wood underneath sets the color and the grain, but the finish decides how the floor handles a decade of shoes, chair legs, dog nails, and spilled coffee. There is no... Continue Reading
The single most useful thing to understand about hardwood stain is that the color on the can is not the color you get. Stain is transparent. It tints the wood underneath rather than covering it, so the species, the... Continue Reading
Yes. The floor has to be sanded back to bare wood first, then the new color is applied and sealed. There is no shortcut that works, and the ones sold as shortcuts cause more problems than they solve. How much work... Continue Reading
A pet urine stain sits at one of four depths in a hardwood floor, and which depth it has reached determines whether it cleans up, needs sanding, or needs board replacement. Most of the disappointment with peroxide... Continue Reading
The mistake almost everyone makes is starting too aggressive. Someone finds a dried paint spot, reaches for a scraper or a bottle of solvent, and ends up with a dull patch in the polyurethane that is far more obvious... Continue Reading
Far less often than people assume. Most floors we are asked to condemn are recoverable, and the ones that genuinely are not have usually failed structurally rather than cosmetically. Here is the actual dividing... Continue Reading
A squeak is friction. Something in the floor assembly is moving against something else when you step on it, and the fix is always the same in principle: stop the movement. Everything below is a different way of doing... Continue Reading