Today we’re going to tell a story that we have told before. It is a story dear to the heart of many of us at The Master’s Craft, and we hope it is near to your heart as well. It is a story of love and life illustrated time and again through history, with trees …
About the Author: Caleb Unruh
Caleb Unruh has spent the past ten years working in various roles for The Master’s Craft, and currently serves as the Marketing Manager. He has helped developed the Tradewinds Flooring brand of prefinished hardwood flooring, and worked to create many technical and sales resources for anyone involved with selling wood flooring and related supplies. He has a wonderful wife, and five kids at home and enjoys family time, running, and travel.
Articles Written by Caleb Unruh
Stop Squeaky Wood Floors by Using the Right Fastener
If you’re involved in selling or installing hardwood floors, you have probably had to solve a “squeaky floor” problem for a customer. Nobody likes it when their brand new hardwood floors start squeaking. Prefinished flooring manufacture warranties do not cover noise issues because they are job site related, and it can be a difficult problem …
Wood Floor Moldings: Find the Perfect Match
Imagine this – you’ve just installed a gorgeous prefinished floor. Everything is looking great and your customer loves it. You start to install the moldings to finish the job, but the moldings you pull out of the box aren’t a perfect match to the flooring boards you are installing them next to. Now a $50 …
When A Floor Doesn’t Stay Together
I love it when a floor goes together. Plank by plank, the steady beat of the mallet and boards snapping together and growing into a beautiful work of art. Nothing is worse than getting a complaint sometime after the job is finished that gaps are starting to appear between the boards. Today, we’re going to …
Why is my floor gapping?
Seeing gaps in your wood floor? Dents du bonheur is a French phrase for happy teeth – you know, the two front ones that have a gap. In parts of Africa it is a sign of wisdom to have that gap and in Chaucer’s time women with that quirky feature were considered attractive. There are many …
Expanding on the 4 Types of Gaps
It’s a fact of life that things expand and contract… water, wood, and waistlines after the holidays. Your floor is no different and may decrease in size this winter which will create a few gaps. Don’t worry, most gaps are a result of wood’s tendency to shrink in size as it dries out and those …
The Floorman
If you look at someone’s hands, it tells you a lot about the work they do. You’ll come across hands that are lean and strong, with grease and dirt, and even a scar or two. It may be that they are the hands of a floorman. The hands that push the sander, swing the mallet, …
Squeaks Can be Scary
It is a given in life that if you’re going to do something, do it right the first time and it will save you a lot of time and trouble. Many a horror story has been told by flooring inspectors of someone cutting corners, not following industry best practices, or who didn’t bother to read …
2 Easy Ways to Fix Your Squeaky Floors
Tim Mc Cool, our technical director, shares a couple tricks of the trade when it comes to squeaky floors! Here are two videos that show you how to fix your squeaky floor with WD-40 or how to fix your wood floor with taclum powder. Fix your squeaky floors with WD-40 . Fix your …
How to Silence the 4 Types of Squeaky Floors
For those of you who have stepped in an older home with wood floors, you’ve probably heard a squeaky floor. It can be quaint and charming, it may even remind you of Grandma’s house. But for those living in the house hearing the squeaking all the time, it may be a nuisance and you really …