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Mastering Hardwood Floors : An Installation Guide

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The book is a technical manual with simple and effective drawings and diagrams. It seems to be geared towards a reader who has some familiarity with remodeling and construction. If you are a do-it-yourselfer this is a great book for designing and planning to lay hardwood floors. It is also a good reference to consult while doing the job as well.
This book is part of a two book set, the other book entitled "The Art of Refinishing Hardwood Floors". While that book was also very good, most of it was contained in "Mastering Hardwood Floors".

This is not a book, it is a syllabus. Very poorly illustrated with few details. Also this material is dated. Got absolutely no useful information from this.

This is a great book if you are going to do your flooring very oldschool. The book was published in 1989 and back then all of the varieties of different kinds of flooring types weren't available. This book is mainly for people that are going to nail down their floors. Also, one other point, the book is VERY cheap. The book is binded with plastic rings (like that you would expect from an old recipe book) and it appears that the pages were all copied with a cheap copy machine. All of the illustrations are hand drawn and in black in white. There is some useful information, however it is way outdated.