I'm doing 3/4 inch solid hardwood floor installation and I have a couple of questions. This is unfinished and the floor will obviously need to be sanded and finished afterwards. The wood is oak. First, there are a couple of places where there will be some small gaps between some of the wood. They aren't big gaps, but I obviously need some type of filler before sanding and finishing. What do I use to fill these? Second, my mom's house has hardwood flooring throughout her house for the past 40+ years. Most of the pieces are shorter in length compared to the wood that I'm installing. Most of her wood had pieces shorter than a foot, while the wood I'm installing varies from under a foot to over three feet. Why has that changed? Does her house have good or poor quality oak flooring or do I have the good or poorer quality flooring? Or is that just how it is done now? TIA.
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19 years ago