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Installing Bellawood Hardwood Flooring

Bob joins Steve Shelowitz from Williamsburg Parquet Flooring to observe the installation of the hardwood floors in the penthouse apartment. Before the floor is secured, a red rosin paper is laid over the subfloor. The underlayment prevents dust from traveling between the subfloor and the finished floor, and prevents wood-to-wood contact to reduce the possibility of squeaking. The Ash hardwood floors are first roughed into place to determine the layout. Joints are staggered for an attractive layout, and longer boards are placed in the room's most visible areas. The floor's finish is factory applied, and is guaranteed for 50 years of normal residential use.

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Installing Bellawood Hardwood Flooring

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" Let's talk about that the flooring that we're putting down here which is eight bella wood product itself prefinished. Actually American actions of one of the hardest woods you can get absolutely -- I don't look at it as such an excellent it's lower finish. And especially in in the northeast where you start getting dark days in November it's nice to have a reflective white. Unfinished like -- it's less grainy tell us a little bit about the installation what's what you know what have you done first well in the first obviously you -- Bob you laid down -- resin paper. And this is this this dark pink or red paper this is what's been used for him. Century. Absolutely any decades as. A product that gets put under what what is the role of the purposes just to keep wood off wood and to keep any dust and it's traveling through that he had any grooves in the floor -- afford to keep wood off wood squeaks. To eliminate any squeaks between its and that in terms of laying it out when it comes out of the box. It gets laid out in a random length in a random design joints should be about six to eight inches apart. And basically that's it here's a good example of keeping your joints at least this is more like ten or twelve inches apart. And they come packaged so that you have some shorts and some -- comes packaged with short pieces from foot and a quarter long up to seven feet long right so one of the things that we. Done here is to pre select some of the lengths and make sure that we show them off. In areas of the room which are more visible. Absolutely and here you see radio -- theory got a bigger length here. And then use some of the shorts in areas that are less visible especially in the kitchen areas where we're gonna place an island and then of course we'll have. Art cabinets around the corner closets and then. And others that is and I feel like we're slowing down production here we let them go absolutely go ahead tell us. For the make quick work giving -- see what had a nail through these that they're using is a staples. This with. Special teeth that as they go through the door. They grip of the plywood patted the floor tight to the subfloor so it looks like an old album and it's basically. Perhaps that manufacture -- and all that in Iraq. And they get produced through the gun one at a time. -- All right now this is the final piece in what's been done here in order -- Get a perfect fit is that they've ripped some of it and spline it onto this. And so you can't face him this right now. That's what we're putting down a bead of glue. And going all around with -- and given that it's at the very edge you don't really have to worry much about any squeaking there you -- absolutely. We glue should make -- nice tight this is just plain carpenter who plain carpenter's. It. Now let's talk a minute about the finish on on on this bellawood. She is I know that you can buy it with assassin has lost your ministry didn't start to finish on it already."

" I think absolutely so this this finish has eight coats of an aluminum oxide which is water based type of material. That is. Furnished at the factory yeah. It's tested. With a that's that's the tabor test where they take -- this. Where they piece of sandpaper adhered to that yeah. And a 500 gram weight on top of that of that and the disk is making revolutions on top of the finish and depending on how many revolutions it takes to cut through the finish that's -- determine the hardness of the finish yet each revolution is a table. This material is rated at about 2400. That's when people under revolutions which you don't get much better it doesn't. That's the bellawood and that's the final piece thanks Steve."

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