Video #15 in our ongoing series of Renaissance Homes quality construction. President Randy Sebastian talks about hardwood flooring – how we install it, the products we use and the choices we make on finishes. Randy also goes over in detail why our hardwood flooring is very resistant to damage, and how it will last for decades. [expand title="View Transcript" swaptitle="Hide Transcript" swapalt="Hide Transcript" trigclass="arrowright"] Intro Hi, I'm Randy Sebastian, President of Renaissance Homes. We're doing a video series to explain to you guys exactly why Renaissance Homes are built better than any other builders and then detail the construction process of what we do to build you the most energy efficient, best built home in Portland. We're in fact the number one LEED builder in the state, no other builder builds as many LEED certified homes as we do and there's a reason for that: Renaissance Homes are just built better. So I want to show you guys exactly what we do. Hardwood Flooring Here we are at the hardwood stage of the home. All of the custom cabinets have been built and they're installed, the millworks in it's painted, and the electrical's in, and now it's time for hardwood. We're really picky about our hardwood. This is three-quarters of an inch solid Berch, it’s got a factory finish on it, it's got seven layers of finish on it and it's an extremely hard baked on finish so you're not gonna have a lot of issues that a site finished hardwood would have. This is a much harder, say for dog nails and things that would normally scratch a softer finish to hardwood. As you guys can see it's a tongue and groove so it fits nice and solid and these guys are gonna start nailing it in. They toenail it in to the flooring of the home to keep it completely tight so it's not gonna pull up later. This hardwood is gonna be in this home for decades and we just want to make sure it's done right. Outro Thank you for joining us today. You can go to our website Renaissance-Homes.com for more information. [/expand]
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