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SandFree Project of the Month:
August |
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SandFree-Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
888-202-3794
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Memorial Hall
The Arch Building
3500 Spruce St.
Philadelphia, PA
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Before:
Memorial Hall is
approximately 125 years old. As you will see, the original
white oak was set into a "wetbed" of asphalt adhesive. This
floor could not be sanded, because it was too thin 300 feet were moving and had become
dangerous. We agreed to custom mill new parquet of white oak, 2
1/2" x 5/8" by 22", install it, ColorMagiQ the new wood to match the
old, and then SandFree® the whole floor. |
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The Process:
We began by taking up each board that
had to be replaced. We took precise measurements, and then
custom-milled a
wide width white oak, planed down on the top, with routed sides to
create tongues and grooves for 828 pieces of 5/8" parquet. |
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The Process: We removed approximately 70 composite blocks of the
parquet. The black asphalt glue is visible. If you look
at some of the individual boards at the bottom of the picture, you
can see how thick the glue was on the bottoms of the boards -
approximately 3/8". |
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ColorMagiQ: Although the picture isn't very good, you can see the
color match after the ColorMagiQ had been applied. The old
floor still needed to be SandFree'd. |
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Finished Product: Here's the beautiful, new, historically restored
floor! |
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