Huggins Wood Floor Specialist Presents: Beauty is More Than Skin Deep – Maintaining & Refinishing Wood Floors + Wood Flooring Species

Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist “ONLINE” for our one credit course, Beauty is More Than Skin Deep – Maintaining & Refinishing Wood Floors. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned wood flooring specialists & wood flooring inspectors, covers how you and your firm can avoid wood flooring failures and costly lawsuits when specifying wood flooring systems. Stay up to date with the latest wood flooring trends, get informed of innovative wood flooring systems and green friendly products to save you and your clients time and money.

This course assists architect and design professionals in understanding the green attributes of hardwood flooring so that they can effectively specify wood flooring for their client projects and meet potential green building program criteria. This is a 1 CEU credit course. The National Wood Flooring Association will submit the forms to IDCEC and AIA for your CEU’s approval.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain routine and long-term maintenance of wood floors Identify finishes on wood existing floors
• Discuss the greenhouse effect on wood floors
• Explain how and why seasonal gaps and cracks can appear Understand the pad and recoat process
• Describe the sand and refinish process
• Explain the differences among strip, plank, parquet wood floors
• Describe the differences between solid, engineered wood floors
• Understand how wide, long plank wood perform as flooring materials
• Discuss how saw cut can minimize performance issues with wide, long plank wood flooring
• Identify the availability and limitations of wide, long plank wood flooring
• Recommended maintenance for wide, long plank wood flooring