Stains & Dyes

Some wood flooring contractors love to stain floors. They up sell their jobs by offering customers any color they desire, even without having to buy expensive exotic species. They develop a reputation as a color specialist, and they charge...

Staining a floor seems like a basic skill, but as many wood flooring contractors will tell you, plenty can go wrong. One contractor (who shall remain nameless) recalls the first time he was sent to a job site to water-pop a floor—he did...

Talk about changing the color of a wood floor, and most wood flooring professionals immediately think about standard wood floor stains (in their palette of browns, with maybe a white or a black...

When a customer asks for an unusual color on her wood floor that can't be made with typical stains, most hardwood flooring contractors just tell her it can't be done. But that isn't true—dyes can...

Competition is stronger than ever among today's wood flooring contractors. In this environment, you need the advantage of both efficiency and quality to help increase your bottom-line profit. One of the best ways...

Just about any wood flooring contractor can lay a plain wood floor,but not many go beyond that, offering customers upgrades to customize their wood floors. Some contractors are intimidated...