I have currently about fifteen residential units that I rent to upper scale folks. Mostly singles and a few couples. Over half have hardwood on the floors. Some in my big building have it in the kitchens because it was there and we just refinished it, maple, from 1913. It is full of imperfections from nearly a hundred years of use and abuse but still looks very good.

I originally was going to put ceramic in the kitchens but decided to go with the wood and see how it went. after six years I cannot think of anyplaces that have had to be even touched up yet.

There are some places in my office where the chairs have worn all the finish off.

We used three coats or oil based polyurethane in most of them. Professional refinishers did it all with the walk behind sanders. Due to all the small nails from underlayment they used a lot of paper which I ended up paying them extra for.

Folks really like the wood.

On the fourth floor it is all terrazo. That is pretty trouble free too. It had a lot of small damaged areas which we patched with bondo, sanded smooth and sealed with terrazo sealer. That is working out well too.

If anybody wants to look, there are a lot of pictures on my picturetrail websites. username ctwalgamuth, and tomwa, iirc. Let me know if those don't work and I will check and correct.

picturetrail.com

Tom W

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