Tech Talk

Preliminary steps for creating a suitable base for flooring installation. While undertaking proper subfloor preparation should be routine practice, neglecting to do so still often results in floor failure....

Achieving perfect exterior flooring installations and selecting the optimum products at each stage along the way. The steps to achieving a professional flooring finish outdoors, as well as in transitional...

Ensuring a smooth base for the receipt of floorcoverings is essential for achieving a visually attractive flooring finish, especially when installing thin resilient floorcoverings. John Green, technical...

In nearly all cases, subfloors should be primed before the application of an adhesive or a smoothing compound, unless working with flooring preparation products that are specifically formulated to not...

Time-saving alternatives to mechanical preparation when dealing with old adhesive residues. Applying a smoothing compound to a subfloor is the usual first step in creating a suitably smooth base for the...

Ensuring long-lasting resilient flooring installations in damp and humid environments.  Water that is allowed to get beneath resilient floorcoverings can attack adhesives, causing floorcoverings to blister...