Shaw Floorte Waterproof Hardwood
juliacali
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Shaw Floorte Cleaning -- Always looks streaky.
Comments (5)Paging Mr. Google! Ah, here we go. "We recommend Shawfloors R2X Hard Surface cleaner to keep your resilient floors looking their best. We do not recommend that you use vinegar as a cleaner for you resilient vinyl floors. While vinegar makes a great cleaner for household dirt, over time it can damage your floors because it is not pH balanced. Also, please do not use steam to clean your floors. The extreme temperatures can cause expansion of the vinyl which could lead to wrinkles and glue bond issues."...See MoreHas anyone installed Shaw Floorte?
Comments (70)@Devin, our Guardian Oak has held up great. No scratches that I can see and that is with a dog, a cat, and two kids. We have felt on the bottom of all the furniture, but I did just check the bottom of the stairs where the cat and dog regularly chase each other with audible scratching as they rush around the corner. I couldn’t find anything. With the animals, we vacuum almost every day. It does show dust and dirt, but we’d rather see it and vacuum regularly than unknowingly walk through kid crumbs. :) Our only issue has been the install concerns I mentioned. We get some movement at the end joints still, as they had trouble going together in spots. Shaw suggested CA glue as the solution, but I haven’t been brave enough to try that yet....See MoreBrands of Engineered Hardwood Flooring
Comments (20)Also checking into engineered hardwood for a below grade concrete floor. I don't know about the Prolex. Their website has very little information and looks like it is from the '90's. Doesn't scream innovation at any rate. I also couldn't find their site straight away. I had to go via a Yelp listing of all things. Any eco friendly brands of engineers hardwood out there? No formaldehyde, no toxic glues? Use of post consumer content in the manufacture? Moisture resistant? Pergo, it seems is famous, but garbage. A shame because I saw a really nice looking "Pergo Outlast+ 10mm Laminate Flooring" with "spill protect." The color was Applewood. I don't know what "spill protect" is, but hey, I spill stuff all the time. It's supposedly waterproof, which probably means it's vynl or something. Looking at the picture I took of the label it seems the "core" is 10mm in the fine print....See MoreNEED AN EXPERT ADVICE ON HOW TO ACHIEVE LIGHT GRAY HARDWOOD STAIN
Comments (30)SJ McCarthythank you for your very long process description and NWFA suggestion. With all the risks that proper preparation requires I think I just have to dodge the bullet and pay someone to do it. It really isn't just applying the stain with a brush kinda thing. I emailed seven companies. Four from NWFA and three from neighbors' recommendations. Just few moments ago I had one of them here to look at the stairs. He is certified has all the proper training and certifications. He seemed knowledgeable and explained all the steps. He will have to re-sand. It will be a 3-4 day job depending on how many stain coats are needed. He uses DuraSeal stains and Bona Traffic HD water based seal and has training to work with those. Each coat needs 24-48h to dry. Then he will have to do another 2-3 coats of the seal. His professional opinion was also that the stairs did not turn yellow because of the covering, but they turned yellow because the previous company used an oil based poly. They might have also applied the seal when stain wasn't dry enough. He is almost certain that the amber coloring from the photos is oil based. He never heard of floors turning yellow because they were covered. That being said, he told me I have a good chance winning a small claims court. That the photos should be sufficient. The stairs were first finished in March, we covered the newly stained steps with protective brown contractor's paper, since there was still construction and painting happening. In July we discovered that there is yellowing present. Since July I've been contacting the company to fix it. They refused because they claim that it is not a warranty issue since it is our fault that we covered them, and that is what caused the yellowing. However, the best changes in court would be with two expert opinions. What I should have done was getting an inspector's report and document the yellowing properly. My mistake was sanding the stairs down before finding a new company. Now I cannot get an inspector to examine it. The reason I had my trusted carpenters to sand down the entire yellowed staircase was because our remodel has finished, and I didn’t want a yellow staircase in the house. I was also worried someone else wouldn't be as careful, and do more damage on brand new painted baseboards and stair skirts. Most importantly I knew sanding it down completely will be a huge mess and didn’t want all the dust on our stuff. I wanted to move into a clean house. Now, there will still be sanding just not as much as the heavy sanding. Even the walls were covered in sand. It was awful......See Morejuliacali
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoWe just had this installed. We were looking for a hardwood product that could be floated over a glued down hardwood floor with obvious imperfections. This product ran very well and while it looks extremely well I'm not sure I could advise it at this early state. It scuffs remarkably easy. The first night we rolled our high chair over it and it left train track marks. Every piece of furniture has scratched it. We have felt under everything now - even furniture that had previously never scratched any floors we had at our prior three houses. It is a hardwood veneer over a composite core with built-in sound dampening foam. I'm quite worried that we're going to be looking at another replacement in a couple of years and we've only had it two days already. If you do not have kids or animals this could be a very good product; however, with kids, dogs, and Sandy South Georgia this product is likely going to be an exercise in failure.
Great coloration and each board is unique.
Felt pad slipped off
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