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  2. How Often Should You Clean Your Wood Floors? - AOL

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    Once the wood gets wet, floors can swell, buckle, and warp. To best preserve your hardwoods, wet mop high-traffic areas only twice a month. Areas that get less traffic can be cleaned monthly.

  3. Carpet vs. Wood Floors: In This Battle, There's a Clean Winner

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    A wood floor shouldn't be steam cleaned because the water will go into the wood, Pullin warns. On the other hand, too much water will make a carpet weaker by weakening the latex backing that holds ...

  4. Dry rot treatment - Wikipedia

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    Water-based fungicides, because they are water-based, can be washed away in time if the wood they are applied to keeps getting wet. This is another reason why it is important to fix leaks, thus keeping the wood dry in an alkaline environment, and seal the wood (especially the end grain) to prevent ongoing exposure to hungry spores.

  5. This Is the Most Affordable Way to Update Your Floors - AOL

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    Painting your wood flooring is also great way to add a pattern without installing vinyl or tile. You can achieve perfect painted floors. Below, Mundwiller walks us through the process of how to ...

  6. Wood flooring - Wikipedia

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    Wood flooring is a popular feature in many houses. Engineered wood flooring consists of two or more layers of wood adhered together to form a plank. Typically, engineered wood flooring uses a thin layer of a more expensive wood bonded to a core constructed from cheaper wood. The increased stability of engineered wood is achieved by running each ...

  7. Floor sanding - Wikipedia

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    A timber floor after carpet has been pulled. The "fluff" is carpet adhesive. A rimu timber floor after the first cut. Preparation is the first stage of the wood floor sanding process. All nails which protrude above the boards are punched down. Nails can severely damage the sanding machines which are being used.

  8. Wood warping - Wikipedia

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    Many factors can contribute to wood warp susceptibility: wood species, grain orientation, air flow, sunlight, uneven finishing, temperature, and cutting season. The types of wood warping include: bow: a warp along the length of the face of the wood; crook: a warp along the length of the edge of the wood; kink: a localized crook, often due to a knot

  9. Yes, nearly everyone snores, but you can stop it. Here's how.

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    How to stop snoring. Because of such a wide variety of contributing factors, "you must first figure out what is causing the narrowing of your air passageways," says Kearney.