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Restoring Woodblock Flooring

April 9, 2015 DIY Guides flooring, parquet, woodblock

Woodblock or Parquet flooring can be very attractive in any home, but especially in period homes. Over time, a woodblock floor can become faded and damaged, even losing some of the many hundreds of individual wooden blocks which make up the pattern.

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