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Prefinished and Unfinished (Finished on Site): Most engineered floor products are prefinished, and many solid wood products are available in prefinished condition. Both prefinished and unfinished flooring can be installed using any of the basic types of installation procedures described in the methods of installation page
Finished on Site or unfinished: The traditional method of installing new hardwood floors was to nail down unfinished solid wood flooring to a sub-floor or ‘joist’, (or to glue parquet tiles to slab), then either sand the surface smooth and wax it, or apply coats of varnish (polyurethane). With the rise in technology, notably the invention of water based urethanes, top coat formulas and application techniques have changed. Yet, these traditional methods of wood floor installation continue to result in the best looking wood floors in most cases. However, the primary disadvantage of this technique is the high level of inconvenience; although it is important to point out that we believe the inconvenience factors to be well worth the results in many cases. This is because a floor that is finished on site will give you more control over specifying color and design, and thus more control over the final results.
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