Product Description
Wood You Like's Wooden Floor Installation Manual,Everything you need to know about DIY wooden floors: learn all the tricks of the trade, know what to look for when selecting your wood floor, what to ask the sales-person (and more importantly what every sales person should ask you about your circumstances such as what type of underfloor your home has). The Manual is the first in its kind: written by specialists who deal with wooden flooring and all the different situations imaginable on a daily basis, situations and circumstances DIY-ers can encounter too but with the Manual at hand are no longer an obstacle for them. The manual covers all the basics from what to note when selecting your own natural wooden flooring, the schedule of works, three different installation methods to the easy maintenance principles that will keep your floor healthy and beautiful and much, much more. Installing a wood floor isn't rocket science - all it needs is some common sense, patience, the right preparations at the right time and of course quality materials and the right tools. Wood You Like's Installation Manual for Wooden Flooring covers it all: including tricks of the trade to install your own floor like a professional!
From the Back Cover
"How do I install the last row?"..... "My room is part chipboard, part concrete. What do I do?".... "Can I install a wood floor in a kitchen?".... "I've got underfloor heating, can I have wood flooring?".... "Do I glue or float my wood floor?".... . "The pack says to glue it, the supplier says nail it. Now what?".... "I've got two dogs and four kids, my wife likes wood flooring, what do you suggest?".... "How do I know how much wood to buy?".... "There are Marley tiles, can I glue a wood floor on them?"....
Just a small collection of questions that has found its way to Wood You Like's inbox over the last 5 years. After answering all questions individually the owners/directors have now created a comprehensive manual on installing natural wooden floorboards for diy-ers based on these frequently asked questions. The manual covers all basics from what to note when selecting your own natural wooden flooring, the schedule of works, three different installation methods to the easy maintenance principles that will keep your floor healthy and beautiful and much, much more.
Installing a wood floor isn't rocket science - all it needs is some common sense, patience, the right preparations at the right time and of course quality materials and the right tools. Wood You Like's Installation Manual for Wooden Flooring covers it all: including tricks of the trade to install your own floor like a professional!
Wood You Like, the natural wooden flooring specialists - Kent UK (Members of the British Wood Flooring Association)
About the Author
Karin Hermans, born in Bergen op Zoom - The Netherlands, moved to Kent UK in 2000. Together with partner Ton Slooven (co-author of the Wooden Floor Installation Manual) she owns/manages Wood You Like Ltd, an independent retailer in natural wooden flooring. The debut business novel "The Kiss Business" details - part fact/part fiction - the first 3 years of growing the business from home-office to showroom.
The "Wooden Floor Installation Manual" is in the writers' opinion a logical result of being passionate about quality wooden flooring and writing. Karin continues to add related stories and advice on/about flooring to various DIY-forums and Wood You Like's own website plus FAQ blog.
On other blogs she publishes stories on (web)marketing and business concepts.
