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coffeecup
in Flooring 11 years and 6 months ago
Flooring person - highest recommendation
Writing to unconditionally recommend Carlos Salazar and his uncle, Juan. They recently completely rehabilitated a 1600 sq ft, 100 year old floor in my Harlem…
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xistent
in Flooring 11 years and 3 months ago
Looking For Hardwood Floor Finisher
I have a jarrah wood floor in a condo that is in good shape, it just needs buffing and refinishing for cosmetic purposes. As it’s…
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radgirl
in Flooring 11 years and 6 months ago
Any Rec's for a Floor Finish guy...aside from Carlos?!
We just got our estimate back from the famous Carlos and it’s more than double what our guy quotes us. Problem is our guy (who…
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greenstuy
in Flooring 11 years and 4 months ago
Looking for 1" pine sub floors
We are using our 1″ thick pine subflooring as floors for our renovation. We are missing missing a few hundred sf. Does any one have…
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drewbrownstonecyclone
in Flooring 11 years and 4 months ago
what to do with removed old pine subflooring
I’m in the process of replacing the 120 year old pine subflooring in part of my home. This is leaving me with about 500 sq…
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happycats
in Flooring 12 years and 7 months ago
Best way to remove old black vinyl glue from vinyl tiles before reinstalling new self stick tiles?
Does anyone know the best way to remove the black sticky adhesive left over from self stick vinyl tiles before reinstalling new self sitick vinyl…
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Hunt4MiddleClass
in Flooring 12 years and 2 months ago
Prospect Heights
After renting in Park Slope for years, we’re looking to buy a 2-BR but PS is out of our budget. Prospect Heights seems like a…
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mmilstein
in Flooring 11 years and 6 months ago
Bleaching Floors
My daughter would like to turn red oak floors grey, while preserving the grain. Very light grey, even a driftwood grey is the goal. Any…
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bksquare
in Flooring 11 years and 11 months ago
backsplash type/color
http://cdn.brownstoner.com/519cf834e745c-.jpg I’m having the guys who renovated my kitchen come back to add backsplash. I need help picking a tile type and color. A picture…
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hbranty
in Flooring 11 years and 11 months ago
Is $25/sq ft for hex marble floor tile (1") a good deal?
Have an opportunity to buy some from an auction for my bathroom floor and wanted to know if this was a good price per square…
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doublen
in Flooring 12 years and 1 month ago
Looking for Inlaid Wood Floor Restoring/Repair Person
Hi there, We’re about to begin a gut renovation on a landmark townhouse. We’re taking down the wall between the staircase hall and parlor area…
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deva
in Flooring 11 years and 8 months ago
7 Inch Wide Plank Premium Oak Floors (over 500 sq ft)
I am renovating my house and mistakenly bought way too much of wide plank wood flooring. It’s very hard to find this floor — this…
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jgrando
in Flooring 11 years and 9 months ago
Need new floors but may have asbestos tile
We just bought a house and need to replace hideous carpet–we’d like wood. We were hoping there was wood under the carpet but nope–linoleum. Looks…
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sared
in Flooring 11 years and 8 months ago
Bouncy Floors
We have relatively bouncy, uneven floors on the top floor of our three-story woodframe home. What are our options for having the issue explored? What…
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guikazoid
in Flooring 11 years and 8 months ago
Leveling floor (34x17)
We’re installing hardwood floors throughout our first floor. The contractor said we’d have to level the floor (“adjust it 1.5 inches”). What is a reasonable…
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elgaumer
in Flooring 11 years and 9 months ago
Where did Jose go?
Hi all, I’ve seen many recommendations for Jose (Zambrano) on the site and would like to use him to refinish my parquet floor in an…
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jgrando
in Flooring 11 years and 8 months ago
New floor - What to do about radiators?
Another flooring question. We’re laying new hardwood floors and trying to decide what to do about the radiators. Our flooring guy said we had two…
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JenKG
in Flooring 11 years and 8 months ago
ISO floor co for laminate flooring in basement
I need to redo the floors in my basement, which are presently covered with laminate flooring. I’d like to install new laminate that looks as…
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