Q:Our 1800s house has "quarter-sawn" oak floors. What does that mean, and can we match new hardwood to that? A:Quarter-sawn is done this way: The oak log is stripped of bark, then sawn in half, ...

At its 70-acre lumber mill in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Kentucky, Graf Brothers produces 125,000 board feet of lumber and 35,000 square feet of flooring daily. One of the world’s ...

When I built my deck several years ago, I used 2-by-6s instead of the typical 1-inch decking. And because of some bark left along the edges of the planks, I put them on the deck ‘upside-down.’ If you ...