They’re beautiful, the wood floors we do for our clients --fine functional furniture. I love that our clients treasure them and want them to be perfect.

But, when all the dust has cleared and the last guest has gone – at the end of the day -- you’ve got to feel good walking all over them, because they’re your floors. That’s what they’re for. You have to use them. What else will you walk on?

I know you want them to be beautiful and to stay that way. You can love them and care for them or simply get along with them, but they’re still your floors and they’re what you’ve got to stand on. So, unless they last, how good are they, really?

We can make them look like a work of art, but they don’t belong in a frame on the wall. We hope you’re happy using them as they were intended -- like no other piece of furniture or woodwork in your home.

It’s pointless to worry how they look in this light or that. The occasional blemish or defect occurs in all natural products. Those are character. Every wood floor – including yours – will have them. Character makes them unique. Site finished floors are hand worked, so they will have even more character. 

What you really need to worry about is how long your floors will last. How are they to clean – and stay clean? How good will they look in 5 years or 25? How will they take the abuse you and your family (and friends) will give them over time? Will you still love them then? Those are the most important issues to keep in mind. The true beauty of real wood floors is how they look – lived on. Their beauty is not skin deep. It runs all the way through.

We all love happy customers – especially me. Just know we work the hardest on the crucial qualities of your floor. The longer you have your floor, the more you’ll appreciate our work.

THANK YOU!

Don Bollinger

WHAT DOES GREEN MEAN
March 8, 2008

Everyday now it seems more and more folks want to tell you that what they have to sell is green. 

Some of it’s right on – some’s not. Unfortunately, a whole lot of what you hear is more market hype than market wise. I won’t assume to tell you I have a pat answer, even about wood flooring, a subject I know a good deal about. What I can say is that wood flooring is by far and away the most environmentally sensible and sustainable floor covering you can possibly get. Sustained harvesting of mature hardwood trees (as has been the practice in North America for well over 100 years), helps maintain and even improves the health and environment of our forests and our ecosystem. No other floor covering can come close to boasting that – even reclaimed products.

That said, I am a firm believer in reusing our resources. Recycling is not a new term. When I was a pup, we called it survival. Nothing was taken for granted. Nothing was procured unless there was a plan in place for its complete use, to include its disposal – one that would perpetuate the rebirth or improved health of another needed resource.

I’ve been called an old growth hippy by some. It’s a description I can’t deny. Still, the law of economy is a universal one. All beings in all realms of existence must sooner or later come to terms with its exacting message. 

Don 
Don Bollinger
don@woodfloorco.com
Wood Floor Products, Inc.

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