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• The great views at this ocean retreat now include White Oak floors

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  

  You might want to drop whatever vacation plans you have and get yourself booked into this ocean retreat on Vancouver Island . Not only are our beautiful original White Oak floors installed thorughout this vacation home, the place seems like the kind of place that would be beautiful if it was papered in newspaper. The home is on Nannose Bay and owned by Marlies and Todd Venier, who had our floors installed in late winter of this year.

  The wood floors you see in this stunning slideshow (see the living room and bedrooms in the photos) are all Carlisle floors, done in 7-inch widths with slightly hand-scraped edges and a saw kerf. (You can read about both those techniques right here.) The floor was delivered to the Veniers pre-finished with a Sturbridge Brown Stain. It was installed by Gary Landry of Acer Hardwood, who tells us he was quite impressed with our miling and finish work.

  Posted on September 8, 2010 at 03:11 PM in Hardwood Flooring • Home Decor • (0) Comments

• Customer notices our “quality, care, personal interest, and advice”

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  Here’s a great example of our original Hickory flooring, done in 5- to 10-inch widths. This floor was installed by Greenville, South Carolina homeowners Steve and Brenda Ellis and was finished with Tung Oil.

  See 8 photos of their project here

  Homeowner Steve wrote to us afterwards: “We had a wonderful time with it all. The finish is beautiful and it was a great experience. The wood is amazing and the job you folks did for us was outstanding. We do appreciate all the help and the way this whole thing was done with quality, care, personal interest, and advice.”

  You, too, can do it yourself with a Carlisle floor. Here is everything you need to know about the do-it-yourself process.

  Posted on September 1, 2010 at 01:30 PM in DIY • (0) Comments

• A little education goes a long way

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  

  Kevin Crowder in the Carlisle Denver showroom told us all the story of how he spent some time educating a builder about the Heart Pine flooring he had ordered and that, in the end, the results pleased everyone involved.

  The builder had ordered more than 3,500 square feet of the 11-inch Heart Pine flooring, prefinished with Concord Honey stain for a home in Sun Valley, Idaho.

  Concern was expressed about raised butt joints here and there. Kevin said he explained they are “part of the look in a wide pine and that just because it is prefinished these ‘defects’, as they were perceived, are part of it.”

  He said he told the builder “he certainly could biscuit joint any boards he felt a little leery about before installing.”

  Kevin coached the builder, the builder coached the homeowner.

  In the end, said Kevin, “everyone comments on the floors and that they turned out beautiful.”

  Posted on August 27, 2010 at 04:11 PM in Customer Stories • (0) Comments

• Carlisle sometimes plays matchmaker

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  Cheryl and Jeff from Florida had an interesting problem. They needed to match an old floor with a new section of flooring that would be about 200 square feet. So, they came to Carlisle for some help. Our crackerjack sample shop put together some samples for them to review, based on just one photo that they had sent. Ultimately Cheryl and Jeff, working with our design consultant Rick Menard, chose our Country Grade White Maple for the project. Can you tell the difference? We think it was a perfect match. When they sent us the photos of the completed project, below, they wrote: “We wanted to send you a couple of photos showing how beautiful the match was with our old floor…you guys really rock!”

  We appreciate the kind words, Cheryl and Jeff, and were happy to be of assistance. The photos below show their new floor with and without their furniture.

  You can see more photos of Cheryl’s and Jeff’s project here.

  Posted on August 26, 2010 at 09:59 AM in Customer Stories • Restoration Projects • (0) Comments

• Sometimes our customers take a little convincing

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  We’re not generally surprised when potential customers ask us why our floors cost so much more than other ones they’ve already checked out on their journey toward home building or remodeling. We had one customer recently who wanted to buy an engineered floor and was quoted a price of $6 per square foot. But, along the way he learned there were a few “catches” to that price; the average length of the floor boards he would get for that price was 3- to 4-feet long, with no guarantee as to how many 6-foot boards he could expect. He really wanted the 6-foot boards (most people want at least that—it makes laying the boards down much easier) and the company he was dealing with had no longer lengths to offer him. He also couldn’t get any widths wider than 6 inches. So, in short, he came to understand why a Carlisle pre-finished floor would cost almost twice as much as the $6 one he was originally pursuing. He ended up ordering our Antique Oak, about which he wrote us: “The Antique Oak is unbelievable and we love it. No issues with bowing or moisture problems yet, and hopefully never. No transition pieces, that is how wood floors are done!…”
  We will refer you guys when the opportunity is there.”

  Check out the slideshow, above, for this customer’s Siesta, Florida home.

  Posted on August 25, 2010 at 03:58 PM in Green Building • (0) Comments

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