July 2006
Durable Wood-Floor Finishes
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Soundings Durable Wood-Floor Finishes Q: Is there a wood-floor finish that will hold up to all the sand that inevitably seems to be a part of life at the shore? It's really taking a toll on the polyurethane finished strip flooring we installed less than a year ago. A: Flooring contractor Michael Purser, owner of The Rosebud Co. based in Atlanta, Ga., responds: Abrasion is an issue with any finish on any wood floor. But abrasion from beach sand is especially acute: Sand is essentially silica carbide, which is the same compound that's on sandpaper — the very stuff we
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