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Straight answers about wood floors.

From the people who sand them, lay them and come back three years later to see how they held up. No brochure language, no hedging, and nothing here is trying to sell you a floor you do not need.

Color

Every stain color, on a real floor

All 37 DuraSeal and Minwax colors, photographed on red oak and laid as a floor you can change the width of. Put two side by side, move the light from morning to lamplight, and see any of them in a real room.

37 colors · 4 plank widths · 5 rooms

Being written.

Each of these is a real question we get asked in the showroom every week, so each one is getting a proper page rather than a paragraph.

Species
Red oak, white oak, maple and the rest

Why the same stain lands warm on one and grey on another, and which floors forgive a busy house.

Width
Narrow strip, wide plank, and what changes

What a 2¼ inch floor does to a small room that a 7 inch floor cannot, and where engineered earns its place.

Finish
Waterborne, oil, and how long you stay off it

What each one looks like, what it costs you in days, and which rooms argue for which.

Living with it
Keeping a wood floor looking new

What actually damages a finish, what does not, and the cleaning advice that quietly ruins floors.

Before we start
What happens on the day, and the week before

Dust, noise, where the furniture goes, and how long before you can walk on it in socks.

The best resource is still a person.

Everything here helps you arrive with better questions. It does not replace somebody standing in your hallway looking at what you actually have. That visit is free, and it is where the real answers come from.