We know, we know. The Skil Flooring Saw has now been on the market for about a million years. Actually, it’s closer to one year, but that’s a long time in the tool world. We’re a little (ok, a lot) behind the curve on this one, but since Skil is a HomeFixated sponsor, we figured we’d better get a move on. Skil sent us both the 3600-02 7 amp Flooring Saw, and one of their Contractor Series Premium Flooring Blades (75536). The saw is designed to cut solid, engineered and laminate flooring. Although we didn’t have a flooring job underway, I grabbed some leftover 3/4″ white oak flooring scrap from a previous job and put the Skil Flooring Saw through it’s paces. [click to continue…]
hardwood flooring
This is another product from an incredible mind showcased on instructables.com. And wowsers, it’s a doosey. So, there’s this guy and he wants to put down hardwood floors but he wants them unique. None of that straight-line crap, herringbone is for sissies, alternating squares yawn. Let’s use 2” rhomboid shaped tiles and lay them to give the floor a 3-D look. Oh, yeah and one more thing, let’s make the hardwood rhombuses from scratch from three different logs – from our own trees. I know what you’re thinking – how long does it take to cut, mill and plane 2” tiles out of logs? [click to continue…]
Image Source: One Project Closer
After my raging catastrophe with our engineered hardwood floors, Marc asked me if I wanted to talk about “real” hardwood floors on HomeFixated. While I’m certainly pro-hardwood floors, the truth is, is that I’ve never had to shop for or install them myself. This means that my ‘expertise’ on the matter is limited to walking and dancing (badly) on them and thinking certain varieties and stains are pretty. Not exactly helpful. [click to continue…]
Four years ago when we bought our condo, we knew right away that the carpet had to go. It was old, stained, and smelled of a charming blend of cat, hot dog water and a sickly sweet perfume that attempted to cover the combination up. We figured we had two real choices: real hardwood floors or go for the cheaper, easier-to-install engineered hardwood floors. Since my favorite words – “cheaper” and “easier” – accompany the description of engineered hardwood, we went with that. [click to continue…]
We imagine when they developed the I.D. Wood iPhone application – an index of wood samples and information – there were a few name ideas that went straight into the FAIL folder. Our minds went straight for:
- Pocket Wood
- Little Woody
- Mr. Wood
- Wood Hunt
- miWood
(If you wonder why they’re fails, enter them in Google images and turn the Safe Search feature off – at your own risk.)
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