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<\/a>Hickory Sunset from our Handscraped Series in the Urban Lifestyle Collection<\/p><\/div>\n
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We’re leaving out the name to protect the innocent but thought this was an important tidbit of info to share with ya’ll.<\/p>\n
Lacquer thinner should NEVER<\/strong> be used on finished flooring,\u00a0because it will strip the top coat and there really isn’t a way to get\u00a0the poly urethane top coat back to match the other wood planks once it’s gone. \u00a0The only way to fix this is to replace the damaged planks with new ones.<\/p>\n When you are a contracted installer it’s tough to admit error especially when there is money at stake but this is where a code of solid business ethics comes into play and you “man-up” to responsibility and learn so it never happens again. \u00a0If an installer makes a mistake they should guarentee their work. \u00a0If they make a mistake they should fix it. \u00a0As consumers we don’t always know best which is why we hire professionals to do certain jobs in the first place right? \u00a0We depend on their advice and expertise.<\/p>\n This is a particular case where an installer was at fault not the end user. \u00a0Just remember when it comes to your hardwood flooring the Urbanfloor website has a great FAQ<\/a>\u00a0page with a plethora of info and right here on our blog site we have a tab called ‘Ask Ron<\/a>‘ where you can ask any question you have to Ron Call “Your Urbanfloor Guy.” \u00a0Ron has over 30 years of experience specializing as a flooring contractor. \u00a0If you’re ever in doubt, have installation questions, what you should prepare for when gettng new floors or best practices for taking care of your hardwood flooring… Just Ask Ron<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of our customers wrote in to us with quite the dilemma: “we have the hickory sunset hand scraped finish wood flooring, the\u00a0installer used lacquer thinner to wipe up a certain area. the finish\u00a0now looks and feels different in that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,67,77],"tags":[98,97,547,96,21,536],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-care-and-maintenance","category-educational","category-flooring-educational","tag-damaged-hardwood-flooring","tag-finished-flooring","tag-handscraped-series","tag-lacquer-thinner","tag-urban-floor","tag-urban-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}