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Brickman Consulting: Wood Floor Consultant

Brickman Consulting’s mission is to provide high-quality, accurate, relevant information to anyone with an interest in wood floors. Established in the early 1980s, our clientele has ranged from small regional flooring contractors and individual homeowners, to midsized architectural and engineering firms, to international real estate development corporations and manufacturers with billion dollar market capitalizations.  What have all our clients had in common?  They all had vexing wood flooring problems, or a critical need for information

Wood Flooring:
A Complicated Material

Wood Floors are not as simple as they may appear.  Anyone who has ever had a floor crown or buckle can attest to that.  Oftentimes, the wood simply doesn’t do what it’s supposed to.
But why is this?  What causes floors to separate from their substrates, or finishes to peel, or strange marks to appear only after the contractor’s van has left the job?  These questions can be maddening, and not simply because they arise from a frustrating and expensive failures, where an expensive investment has gone awry.
In every field the man who can merely do things without knowing why is at a disadvantage to the one who can not only build but also tell you just why he is building in that way. This is especially noticeable when the prescribed cycle does not obey the laws it is supposed to: then the laborer must sit by with folded hands while the mechanic or engineer comes in and adjusts the delicate mechanism.

Reuben Fine
(The Ideas Behind Chess Openings.
London: Bell and Hyman, 1981.)
Those questions are also maddening because the answers can be very elusive.  In the wood flooring industry, we have a deficit of high-quality technical information.  To be sure, there is good information being distributed; however, much of it has been made so general that it is useless to explain the real scientific principals governing how a wood floor reacts to its environment.

Howard Brickman: Wood Flooring Expert

At Brickman Consulting, we understand that wood floors are as complicated as they are varied.  Howard Brickman, our founder and president, has nearly 30 years of hands-on experience in the wood flooring industry. He has personally installed and sanded millions of board feet of wood flooring for high profile clients all over the United States, and has inspected millions more.

Howard was one of the first wood flooring consultants in the United States. He maintains his position as the leading industry expert through practical experience as a woodworker, and science-based methods.  Brickman has completed advanced graduate studies in Wood Science and Building Materials.

Additionally, Brickman has served as an expert witness in hundreds of civil court cases, ranging in complexity from simple cupping and cracking to international patent litigation.

Wood Floor Inspection Services

Flooring Problems: What, Why, & How (to fix it)

When something goes wrong with a wood floor, you need information.  You need to know precisely what has happened.  You also need to understand why and how it happened, so that you can determine how bad the damage is, and if it can be fixed.  Then you need to understand precisely how to solve the problem, and do so in a way that won’t make things worse.

In short, you need the advice of an experience, educated wood flooring expert.  Over the last 25 years, Brickman Consulting has conducted thousands of inspections, all over the United States.  We understand the characteristics of the entire range of wood flooring products, ranging from solid flooring like domestic Oak, Maple, and Pine wood flooring and exotic international species Brazilian Cherry, Santos Mahogany, and Bamboo, to engineered, laminate, prefinished and floating systems.

Brickman Consulting has extensive experience diagnosing and solving jobsite moisture problems, and specialize in testing for moisture in concrete subfloors.  We have provided expert advice related to hardwood floor installation, sanding, finishing, and refinishing, as well as proper floor care, maintenance, and cleaning.

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Wood Floor Expert Witness Services

When your wood flooring problem goes to court, you need an expert consultant with:

  • Years of successful experience as a testifying expert in adversarial trial cases
  • Years of practical professional experience in wood floor construction
  • Advance academic training in Wood Science, Building Materials, and Architectural Engineering
  • The ability to accurately report evidence in a compelling manner

Howard Brickman, president and founder of Brickman Consulting, has successfully navigated the full range of legal proceedings, and has testified in hundreds of court cases, depositions, and cross-examinations.

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Wood Flooring Solutions

We have the expertise, experience and genuine desire to help you navigate your wood flooring problems.  Please contact us, and let us know how we can assist you.

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