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Is it OK to walk around on (specifically, move in and finish painting) hardwood floors after being installed, but before sanding and poly? Can it harm the wood?

Our refrigerator leaked water onto our 2 year old hardwood floor, in the kitchen, and pooled in an area all day until we came home from work. Now about a week later, in that area, the boards are bowing. Is there any way to fix this without ripping up that part of the floor and replacing it?

We recently had hardwood floors laid in the living area of our home. However, the stair banister (leading to the basement) had metal spindles holding it up. How can we get the spindles back onto the new floor?

We are hearing from flooring stores that hardwood was meant to be glued, not floated. Is gluing the floor better than floating it? We are fairly handy people. Would you suggest we attempt to glue down the floors instead? Or is that something that is typically left to professionals?

What does it take to put real hardwood on top of an existing laminate floor? The plywood floor under the laminate is level and we installed to laminate as a level floor. If we rip out the laminate we’re back to having to level the plywood. Is this advisable, to install hardwood over laminate? Will there be any “smacking” sound, even if we screw the laminate floor into the subfloor?