HowExpert Guide to Hardwood Flooring

Name: HowExpert Guide to Hardwood Flooring
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How to Install and Maintain Hardwood Floors

Created byHowExpert

Last updated 1/2021

English

What you'll learn

Hardwood Flooring
Hardwood Flooring Tips
Hardwood Flooring Lessons
Hardwood Flooring Basics

Course content

1 section • 11 lectures • 2h 19m total length

Welcome0:20
Learn how to install and maintain hardwood flooring with expert guidance from how expert, providing practical tips for durable results.
Introduction1:38
Explore the history and diversity of hardwood flooring, from ancient origins and sand smoothing to modern varieties, colors, sizes, and installation options including laminate and vinyl planking.
Chapter 1: Knowing Your Subfloor19:04
Remove existing floor coverings and baseboards to expose the wood or concrete subfloor, then assess levelness and moisture to prepare a stable base for hardwood.
Chapter 2: Picking Your Product15:42
Explore choosing hardwood flooring by comparing raw hardwood, engineered wood, and wood-like products, and learn how factors like cost, durability, installation, moisture, and wear layers influence selection.
Chapter 3: Preparing the Subfloor20:44
Chapter 3 guides preparing the subfloor for hardwood installation, detailing methods for nailed, glued, or floating floors, including leveling, underlayment, moisture barriers, and subfloor repairs.
Chapter 4A: Installation18:16
Install raw wood or engineered hardwood by nailing, stapling, or gluing to the subfloor, following a straight-line layout and proper expansion gaps.
Chapter 4B: Installation25:51
Learn glue-down engineered hardwood installation on concrete slabs, including layout with chalk lines and careful glue application. Master plank spacing, butt joints, and securing with tape, plus floating floor methods.
Chapter 5: Sanding, Staining and Finishing21:23
Learn how to sand, stain, and finish hardwood floors using drum sander and edger techniques, apply fillers, stain, and multiple coats of oil- or water-based finishes with sealing steps.
Chapter 6: Trim8:43
Learn how to finish hardwood flooring by selecting and installing trim pieces: baseboards, base shoe, and quarter round to cover gaps, with proper cutting, nailing, caulking, and transitions.
Chapter 7: Maintenance6:32
Maintain hardwood floors by dry mopping with a microfiber mop and using cleaners designed for wood finishes; avoid wet mopping on raw wood, oil-based finishes, and laminate.
About the Expert0:49
Meet Mark Hagan, a hardwood flooring expert with over 20 years in California. Learn how his father started him in sanding, staining, refinishing, and installing hardwood floors from age six.

Requirements

No experience necessary - All levels welcome - Beginners, Intermediate, & Advanced

Description

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.

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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.

Who this course is for:

Hardwood Floor/Flooring Enthusiasts