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Getting floored – 5 hot flooring tips for the kitchen

Would like to say thanks again to the friendly folks at Square Rooms for featuring us in their Jul-Aug 2009 issue. :)

Nice title, wish I’d thought of it!

You can read the tips below. They are pretty straight-forward, but well worth repeating.

For the full article on kitchen flooring tips, go pick up a copy at the book stores today.

Getting floored - 5 hot flooring tips

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3 Simple Steps to Remove Dents on your Bamboo (and Wooden) Flooring

One of the most common issues we face during installation is dents on our bamboo flooring.

During a renovation or construction project, flooring is usually the last item. Ideally, most of the other works would already have been completed when we are installing the flooring, leaving perhaps some light carpentry work.

That’s the theory. Due to time constraints and unforeseen delays, job sites are usually chaotic places. One of my installer half-jokingly calls them as “war zones”.

Bamboo is very hard and durable, but it is nowhere as hard as a metal hammer. Accidents do happen.

So what can we do?

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