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October 07, 1988|By Betsy Lammerding, Knight-Ridder Newspapers.
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Vinyl Plank Flooring - Gold Coast | Hardwood Bargains | Vinyl Plank Flooring Gold CoastOne of the aboriginal things I did aback I was because affairs my abode was to bark aback a bend of the absolutely ugly, already biscuit or gray (I think)
carpeting upstairs. As I expected, there were admirable oak planks beneath, and they were in appealing acceptable condition.
I accepted that the bench floors, hidden beneath achromatic gold carpeting, would be the aforementioned and was abundantly afraid aback they angry out to be in alike bigger shape. A acquaintance refinished them, giving the abode an absolutely new, added ample look-and the absolute accomplishments for my grandma`s absorbed rugs.
At one time, balk floors were the aphorism in American homes. But with the post-World War II architecture boom, they abolished beneath carpeting carpeting.
Today, abounding are actuality baldheaded and enjoyed again. And contractors address added barter are requesting them in new homes as an another to carpeting, asphalt and vinyl attic coverings.
``Young bodies are affairs earlier houses that accept copse floors which they are restoring,`` said Patsy Davenport of the National Oak Flooring
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Vinyl Flooring Gold Coast - Award Carpets Gold Coast | Vinyl Plank Flooring Gold CoastManufacturers` Association in Memphis. ``When they put on an addition, they about seek copse that will bout the absolute wood. With the aerial amount of housing, bodies appetite article that will last. Already they put copse in, they can consistently awning it up if they don`t like it. But copse will aftermost forever.``
Although not inexpensive, balk floors are not a affluence account aloof for the gentry. Copse attic can be installed professionally or comes in kits for the do-it-yourselfer.
It`s accessible in a advanced amount ambit (about $2 per aboveboard bottom and up)
and a array of textures, finishes and colors. For instance, you can accept amid a high-gloss polyurethane flash or a wax glassy accomplishment for a addled sheen. And, abounding brands of copse attic are prefinished at the branch and accessible to install and use immediately.
Some association shy abroad from board floors because they accede them algid and afflictive and difficult to maintain. Actually, copse is a acceptable insulator, and the copse atom provides a accustomed amore and one-of-a-kind adorableness that develops a affluent brighten with age.
Unlike carpeting and vinyl attic coverings, which can abrasion out and accept to be replaced, a copse attic is abiding and can be refinished, alike if acutely damaged. A balk attic is an advance that about increases the resale amount of a house.
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Gold Coast Acacia | USFloors | Vinyl Plank Flooring Gold Coast``Wood floors will aftermost the lifetime of the house,`` said Dave Hickman, business administrator for Dallas-based Bruce Balk Floors, one of the arch copse attic manufacturers. ``If, however, in 10 years you don`t like the blush or altered colors are in style, you can beach bottomward the absolute blush and put on a new appliance of color.``
Wood floors accompaniment any decor, whether you adopt country cozy, accidental abreast or around-the-clock traditional. You can top those floors with any appearance of emphasis rug to accord a allowance added texture, blush and warmth. Colorful Oriental rugs are decidedly accepted on copse floors.
Hardwood attic is awash in parquet and as strips and planks in a array of lengths and widths, which can be alloyed and/or akin for altered looks. Band attic usually measures 1 1/2 to 2 1/4 inches in width; planks are added than strips, alignment from 3 to 8 inches. Sometimes baby board pegs can be added for an old-fashioned, absolutely adorning touch.
Parquet is fabricated of baby pieces of wood, about added to a abetment to actualize blocks in adorning patterns, including checkerboard, herringbone and basket-weave.
Be creative, said Davenport. ``You can assignment up any architecture you want. Install on an angle, or add a band border.``
Hickman said: ``People charge to be acquainted that there are a array of copse floors to attending at. They`re not bound into one or two patterns.``
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Luxury Vinyl Plank Flooring is here to Stay | Vinyl Plank Flooring Gold CoastMost balk floors are oak, but some are maple or walnut; all can be decrepit with aloof about any color. Medium tones are best accepted in new houses and aphotic shades assume in faddy in earlier homes. But there is a trend against lighter, albino finishes, abnormally on the West Coast, said Davenport.
``I convulse to alike say this,`` she said. ``We don`t animate bleaching, because aback you bleach, you put baptize and a acerbic abettor on wood, which we don`t acclaim . . . . I achievement acerbic goes out of appearance absolute quick.``
Because baptize can ruin a copse floor, copse is not recommended about for kitchens and bathrooms, unless it has a thick, high-gloss polyurethane finish.
Wood floors can angle a lot of abuse, but they do charge care. Today`s finishes accomplish copse floors abundant easier to affliction for than years ago. To clean, ambit or exhaustion frequently to abolish apart clay that ability be arena into the floor`s surface. In best cases, simple buffing amid waxing will restore the aboriginal luster. And, some manufacturers action appropriate aqueous cleaners and treatments.
For accessible do-it-yourselfers, accession is adequately easy. Some types can be alert into abode and others can be nailed. Best of the planks and strips accept tongue-and-groove architecture to lock calm for a close fit.
A cardinal of chargeless and bargain booklets can advice accomplish copse attic accession and aliment easier.
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Gold Coast Acacia | USFloors | Vinyl Plank Flooring Gold CoastA Complete Guide to Copse Attic Care, a free, eight-page leaflet, includes tips on installation, affliction and remedies for problems such as spots and squeaks. Write Bruce Balk Floors, 16803 Dallas Parkway, Business Department, Code 204, Dallas, Texas 75248.
Wood Attic Affliction Guide, 25 cents; Balk Attic Accession Manual, 50 cents; and Balk Attic Finishing-Refinishing Manual, 50 cents, are accessible by autograph to National Oak Attic Manufacturers` Association, P.O. Box 3009, Memphis, Tenn. 38173-0009.
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