The FloorMan Blog
Hardwood Flooring
(Installing, Refinishing, Repairing)

The homeowner decided it was time for an up-grade to new ceramic tile and a beautiful hardwood.

This is because wood expands and contracts in response to humidity and temperature.  The gap needed is approximately one-quarter of an inch, which means you will have a fissure in your floor all around the room. 

Today we have a guest blogger, Mary Vargas from "Build Direct." Take it away, Mary:

The effect that hardwood flooring has on someone’s impression of a house can often be subliminal, in our experience.  But it is a fact that if you repair and refinish wood flooring you will increase the value of a property.

When you start shopping for your hardwood flooring, you can quickly find yourself in a morass of confusion.  "What is the right hardwood floor for me? There is SO MUCH to choose from!"

Presenting another typical hardwood floor install for The FloorMan, this one in Carrollton, Texas.

I laughed today when I read:  "When it comes to the best laid plans of mice and men, it’s wise to bet on the mice."

When you are considering putting in a new hardwood floor it’s a good idea to make sure you are getting a qualified installer.  More than once we’ve had to come into a home and repair, or even replace, a poorly installed floor.

When The FloorMan is called for installing a wood floor, sometimes one our guys goes above and beyond the normal call of “duty.”  I'd like to share how Bryan Robidoux, our Ft. Worth guy, did that recently on a job in Benbrook, Tx.

The FloorMan installs wood floors.  The FloorMan does tile flooring installation.  The FloorMan hand-scrapes wood flooring.Sometimes we get to do all of it in the same home.