Broadloom carpeting became popular in the 1950's. Soon every homemaker worth her salt, needed wall to wall carpeting. Today, a whole new generation of homeowners are moving into second and third generation homes and discovering beautiful hardwood flooring hidden beneath the carpeting. America has rediscovered the strength, clean lines, and character of hardwood floors and fallen in love. Now, house and condominium owners and apartment dwellers, alike, are clamoring for hardwood floors. They are also calling for information on how to bring the hardwood finish back to its former beauty, or create a new finish for their floors. This booklet should give the answers to most of your hardwood problems. It is dedicated to helping you bring back the warm glow of hardwood to your lives. Many times, when the carpeting is removed, the hardwood floors just have to be brightened. Sometimes they have to be completely refinished. Other times, new floors have to be put down and heavy is the heart of the person who finds only plywood under the carpeting. The book is divided into seven sections: New Floors, Brightening, Finishing & Refinishing, Pre Finishing Preparation, Refinishing Procedures, Floor Care & Maintenance, and Problems. The New Floors section is to give you the information you need to be a knowledgeable hardwood shopper. The other sections tell you how to do the job. This book could not have been written without the help of a great many good friends in the floor refinishing field. From Walter Whitley, Executive Vice President of the Oak Flooring Institute, to professional hardwood floor refinishers like Bob Grabowski and Paul Maskill at G & G Floor Company, and Jim Moody at Paynter Floors, Inc., to distributors like Dick Walters at Erickson's Flooring & Supply Co., Inc., to retailers like Bill Damman at Damman Hardware, Jack Smith at Dillman & Upton, Randy Hobbs at CrandallWorthington Co. and Doug Winfield and Gordy Winfield at Pontiac Paint.rice husk properties for wood plastic composite All these professionals have been more than generous with their time, because they all want one thing: you to be successful with your hardwood floor refinishing project. As always, the staff of WXYT Radio, Talk Radio in Detroit, have given me every assistance.waterproof under composite decking The book would have been impossible without my publishing team, Kelly Boike, Barbara Anderson, Editor, Kathleen Stief, Artist, Ken Taylor of Art Staff, Page Layout Editor, Gordon Sommer, of Producers Graphics, and Doug Beauvais and Debbie Wichter at Data Reproductions.cost outdoor patio wood tiles Thanks to my family, Barbara, wife and principal proof reader, and Eric and Heather. And, as always, thanks to you, my loyal listeners and readers.