Flooring Knowledge Center

Find the right technique and the right tool for the job.

Start here

The pages worth reading before you start any job — safety, testing, and moisture guidance that applies across nearly every flooring type.

Cutback Adhesive & Asbestos ID

Test before you grind, blast, or scrape any old adhesive.

Subfloor Moisture Testing

Calcium chloride vs. RH probe, and when each applies.

Subfloor Flatness Standards

ASTM F710 and what it means for your install.

Browse by flooring type

Start with a job, not a product — each category covers removal, prep, and install for that flooring type.

Resilient

LVP/LVT, sheet vinyl, VCT

Wood & Engineered Wood

Solid hardwood, engineered wood

Tile & Stone

Ceramic, porcelain, natural stone

Carpet

Stretch-in, glue-down, padding

Rubber

Wall base, rolled and athletic rubber

Laminate

Floating floor systems

Concrete

Grinding, polishing, shot blasting, scarifying

Machine Maintenance

Manuals, parts diagrams, maintenance schedules and specs for the machines we sell and stock parts for, organized by brand. Every manual is a PreFloor-hosted copy.

National Equipment

Ride-on and walk-behind scrapers, grinders, shot blasters, scarifiers, pullers, binders and dust collectors.

All Machine Manuals

Browse every machine by brand.

Equipment Care & Repair

Keep scrapers, stretchers, irons, and binders running — maintenance, troubleshooting, and finding the right OEM part.

Finding the Right Replacement Part

Reading OEM diagrams and part numbers.

Ride-On Scraper Maintenance

Daily and weekly checks that prevent downtime.

All Equipment Guides

Maintenance and troubleshooting by machine type.

Safety & Standards

Reference pages shared across every category.

Silica Dust & Respiratory Safety

Applies to concrete grinding, tile cutting, wood sanding.

Transition Strips & Thresholds

By substrate height difference, across categories.