Using crisp photos and drawings, Bollinger goes step by step through the process. You will learn how to estimate materials, select the right kind of wood, prepare the subfloor and achieve a blemish-free finish for an old or new floor. Bollinger also provides numerous tips and tricks, and sources of supply. The book is indexed for easy reference.
I have owned and operated The Oak Floors of Greenbank, Inc., a wood flooring contracting company in the Seattle area for over 35 years and Wood Floor Products, Inc., a 20-year-old manufacturing and wholesale distribution firm. I have consulted and written extensively for trade & consumer magazines, written and edited numerous technical manuals & bulletins for wood flooring associations and manufacturers and I wrote the book "Hardwood Floors - Installing, Sanding & Finishing" and accompanying videos/DVDs published by Taunton Press/Fine Homebuilding Magazine widely perceived as the definitive text on the installation, sanding and finishing of wood flooring. I served on the board of directors for the National Wood Flooring Association for 5 years chairing the Technical & Education Committee and co-chairing the Magazine Committee. I helped write and develop the first Technical Manual on wood flooring and helped create the first exclusive magazine on hardwood flooring - "Hardwood Floors Magazine". I helped create and develop the first schools for NOFMA and NWFA to train both beginning and advanced trade's people and continue to instruct periodically for NWFA, NOFMA, MFMA and AHEC.
