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Originally Posted by gregpark

Just read the advice above. A popsicle stick for color match? No. We use a much larger sample of the same specie of wood as yout flooring. Many times we'll sand a 2x2 area on the actual floor and figure out the combo. I've been doing this for a living for 50 years. My advice is to take advice from someone who has done it thousands of times instead of someone who's done it a handful of times. Better yet, like I said above, hire someome who has done it a thousands times before

We have enough of the wood around the house (unfinished areas in attic, pieces found inside walls, etc....) to be able to use the actual wood for testing.

My concern with finding "a guy" is that out here, in BFE, a lot of the guys out here in the country are "handyman" type guys that are "I can do that" kind of guys. If I could afford to get you here.... But I can't, so, I can do my best to carefully do a good job or, potentially pay a guy that ends up doing a crap job (or maybe find a guy that does a great job, although that seems far less likely).