If your hardwood floor's finish becomes dull and scratched you can restore the finish by a light screening and recoat of the urethane.

No wax, no mess. Mohawk Hardwood Floors are very easy to maintain. Simply use Mohawk Floor Care Essentials Hard Surface Cleaner and a specialty terry cloth flooring mop available from your local Mohawk flooring store. See the Store Locator for a Mohawk flooring dealer nearest you.

You should never wet mop a hardwood floor, this will raise the grain and may permanently damage the wood's surface. Use Mohawk Floor Care Essentials Hard Surface Products to clean and protect your hardwood floor. Always apply the Mohawk Floor Care Essentials Hard Surface Cleaner directly to the terry cloth flooring mop, not the floor.

These are the most popular choice and involve applying a stain to achieve a particular color, followed by a top coat of polyurethane or varnish to give a protective coat. Surface finishes are durable, they resist moisture, and are easy to maintain. There are four options for the top coat, and each has its own benefits: OIL-BASED URETHANE is the most commonly used floor finish.

You may be able to renew a dull finish without completely refinishing the floor. Still, some hardwood floor manufacturers recommend that only professional refinishers tackle the job. If you decide to do it yourself, begin by sweeping with a good broom and then vacuuming the surface. Next, use a buffer with an abrasive pad and/or fine-grit sand paper until the finish feels smooth. Another option would be to use a rectangular oscillating sanding machine.

Yes, Mohawk Engineered & Longstrip (glueless) Hardwood Floors are suitable for installing over a radiant heated concrete slab. Caution: The slab surface must never exceed 85 degrees F in temperature. Before installing over a radiant heated floor, turn off heat and wait until the floor has reached room temperature. After installing the floor return the heat to the previous setting.

Mohawk Engineered & Longstrip (glueless) Hardwood Floors can be installed over most concrete slabs (not solid hardwood). The concrete slab must be fully cured for at least 60 days, free of structural defects, clean and visually dry with no history of moisture problems. When testing for moisture, Mohawk suggests utilizing the industry-standard calcium chloride test or the Tramex Moisture Encounter (5 max).

Mohawk Engineered Hardwood Floors may be installed on all grade levels. See the Installation Guidelines for additional information and recommendations.

We recommend Tarkett Cleaner. It removes sticky food spills, rubber heel marks and other foreign substances. It is premixed, is non-solvent and has no offensive fumes. In addition, it is non-flammable and non-yellowing. And, it's easy to use. Thoroughly sweep or vacuum the floor. Then apply the cleaner to the area to be cleaned and rub with a soft cloth or dry mop. You might also use a shmop, a combination dust/sponge mop.

You can, but it may not be the best choice. Many professionals avoid working with oil-based paints because they are harder to clean up and take longer to dry. With water-based paints, smudges and spills can be wiped away easily with a damp cloth. Water-based paint can be applied over oil-or water-based urethane finishes. For best results with opaque paints, consider first applying a white primer.

Solid 3/4" Hardwood flooring cannot be installed below grade (below the soil line) or over concrete. When a solid product encounters moisture it reacts very negatively. Therefore, a laminate or engineered flooring must be used. Laminate flooring is constructed by fusing 4-plys of material together to form a product with unprecedented strength and durability. An engineered product is very similar with the exception that they usually have a real wood layer on top of the constructed core.

Hardwood flooring can be installed almost anywhere in your home. Solid wood, such as site-finished and pre finished flooring, can be installed on or above ground. It is not recommended to install hardwood flooring in moisture prone areas of your home, such as the wet areas of a bathroom.

Mohawk Floor Care Essential Products are available through your local Mohawk dealers. See the Store Locator for the store nearest you.

Yes, Mohawk Engineered & Longstrip (glueless) Hardwood Floors are suitable for installing over a radiant heated concrete slab. Caution: The slab surface must never exceed 85 degrees F in temperature. Before installing over a radiant heated floor, turn off heat and wait until the floor has reached room temperature. After installing the floor return the heat to the previous setting.

Everwood Hardwood flooring is scratch resistant. However, no flooring is completely scratch proof. To help minimize damage to your floor, proper floor maintenance such as using felt pads, sweeping your floor regularly etc. will help prolong the life and beauty of your floors. Minimize water exposure to your hardwood flooring. Wipe up spills as soon as possible. Wood flooring is a natural product, which expands and contracts as moisture levels change.

The squeak is probably in the subfloor over a floor joist. Best way is to run screws into the subfloor through the joint nearest the squeak. If this is awkward, first screw a 2 x 2 to the side of the joint tight to the subfloor, then screw up through the 2 x 2 into the subfloor.

Most people install a polyurethane hardwood floor. These floors are easy to clean and maintain as long as you follow a few simple steps. First of all you will want to use a vacuum or broom to get rid of grit and dust. Make sure to use a vacuum with a floor attachment or an upright vacuum with a hardwood floor setting. A vacuum with a beater bar could harm your floors. You may then want to use a dry untreated dust mop.

Our hardwood flooring is a four-sided tongue-and-groove product that can be nailed directly to a wood subfloor. A hardwood floor cannot be floated. Refer to our engineered floors at www.onlinewoodfloor.com for flooring that may be floated over radiant heating or below grade.

Let the flooring acclimate for 5 to7 days, with boxes opened and laid flat in the room where the flooring is to be installed. If you are in an area with high humidity, you may need to install some humidity controls like a humidifier or dehumidifier.

Our hardwood floors are treated with up to 10 coats of an aluminum oxide finish. While this will certainly help the durability of the floor, it is the hardness of the floor that will give the best indication of durability. Refer to the Janka Hardness rating for a true indication of hardness for a selected species:

All species used for hardwood flooring are durable enough to withstand the wear and tear of daily life. However, this does not mean wood will not dent. As a natural material, wood is made of thousands of cells. When the tree is in the forest, these cells are filled with water. Once that tree becomes lumber, the moisture in those cells is replaced with air. Therefore, if you drop a heavy object on the floor, the floor will compress, forming a dent or gash.

Hardwood floor installation is a skilled trade that requires talented hands to produce the best possible results. Wood Flooring International’s dealers use highly skilled craftsmen who install our floors day in and day out. They not only do it right, they know how to avoid the headaches and hassles even the handiest of homeowners can run into.

Answer: For ¾” thick strip flooring an average price is $8.50 CDN per sq./ft. installed excluding removal and preparation costs (Canadian dollars for those surfing from afar) plus applicable taxes is a good budget figure.

Although many homeowners have pets, hardwood flooring is not designed for the abuse a dog or cat can cause on a floor. Urine may permanently discolor the finish of the wood floor and large dogs' claws will probably leave scratches in the finish. The type of wood floor you buy, the color and the finish will also be factor in how much punishment the floor's finish can withstand before showing scratches and excessive wear.

You should purchase a Keystone Hardwood Floor for two reasons. First, the milling is superior to any in the industry. Our quality controls in conjunction with our state-of-the-art equipment produce the best milled flooring in the market. The second aspect of a high quality floor is the wood used to produce the flooring. With over 30 years in the procurement of lumber we have recognized the best regions for each of the many species of wood we manufacture.

The cream colored, curved- cornered pad is used with the Hardwood Floor Refinisher (do not mistake for our new Hardwood Floor Dusting Pad which is white and rectangular).

This will depend on how well you look after your floor. In a normal domestic situation we anticipate that the floor will require refinishing every 10 to 15 years

Any time you use an adhesive based product (Floor Protection) on hardwood, you run the risk of damaging the finish.

Use a touch-up marker, a wax pencil or colored putty to minimize the damage. View our hardwood installation and warranty page for more information.