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Installation Options Over Tile
Q: I’m just bought a brand new house that was built on a concrete slab and the entire 1st floor is tiled. I would love to put in hardwood floors…
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Finally
Ok I am back in the office, a bit of catch up to get after, but I expect normal posts for next week. Keep your eye on the website for some exceptional…
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Can I Install Laminate Flooring in My Kitchen?
Q: Can I install laminate flooring in my kitchen? A: The short answer to this would be that you can put any floor anywhere you want, but that doesn’t mean…
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Berry Flooring – Frustration – Need Help
Today’s question makes several references to Steve’s Stage of Floor Shopping, which I highly recommend to folks who are just beginning their floor…
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Flooring Over Black Mastic Adhesive
Q: I removed carpeting in my concrete basement and wooden stairs leading into basement. When we pulled up the carpet there were 9×9 tiles that were stuck…
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Moven’ Moven’ Moven’ – Rawhide
Still going. Today Orlando, Baltimore – flew into Providence, Drove to Boston and will be done here tonight about midnight. Tomorrow – NY and then back…
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Hardwood in the Basement
Q: I am going to install hardwood in my basement. I will most likely use the engineered wood, but I was wondering if I need to install a vapor barrier…
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles
We are still rocking and rolling on the road. We have now been to Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta and Orlando in the last 2 days. Still going.
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Allergy and Noise Reduction Issues
Q: My parents are moving into a co-op building with hardwood floors. However, now they have chosen to enforce the wall to wall carpet rules in ways they…
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Buckling Laminate Flooring – Beware of Seconds
Q: Mr. Simonson – I recently read an article on your Web site concerning a company called Floors Today (…
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Mixing Wood Species To Make a Custom Floor
Q: Is it possible to mix and match different wood species for a custom floor and if so can you recommend which different species that would be compatible…
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Moving Flooring show – iFLOOR is on the roll
Well we have a store tour in full force. I’ve met a number of incredible people who are sharing the passion about flooring around the nation. So far we…
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Alloc vs Quick Step
Q: I am in the market for a high quality laminate – I will be laying the laminate in throughout my home, including the kitchen, excluding the bathrooms…
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Saso Quick Click Longstrip
Q: I am looking at the Saso quick click longstrip in the walnut natural 2-strip and I could not find any information on the internet. Is this a new…
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No Comment
Since the high amount of SPAM we have to clean each day from the BLOG – around 200 a day and growing, I decided to remove the comment button. Of course…
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Ceramic Tile – The flooring that is perfect for bathrooms and laundry rooms
Ceramic tile is a great product because it is so strong against water. It also has beautiful looks and textures and other fashion elements which makes it…
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Vinyl Tile over Linoleum
Q: I have Linolium in my laundry room & want to change it ti vinyl tiles. Would I be able to apply the tiles over the linolium if its without cracks or…
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Expansion Gap for Bamboo Flooring
Q: I am installing solid bamboo flooring in a doublewide and the manufacturer suggests 5/8 in expansion gap. This is probably worst case, we live in…
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Hitting the Friendly Skies Again – Steve ’em and Leave ’em.
Well it’s time to take the flooring show on the road again. This time a group of us are going to goto a bunch of cities to see some of the people who…
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Be prepared to be shocked!!!!
If you love exotic hardwood get ready for a shock: Especially Brazilian cherry, tigerwood (aka Koa), walnut, angelim, amendiom, brazilian hickory…
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Laminate Advice
Today’s post comes from iFLOOR.com’s CEO, Steve. Steve gave a bit of advice from his own experience to a customer who wrote in, and I felt it would be…
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Repairing Scratches on Laminate Floors
Q: I have in my living room Westhollow Laminate Beveled Impressions 4 pad (Suwanee Oak). My wife dragged the coffee table on the floor and it has a long…
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Using Cork for Sound Dampening on a Wall
Q: I want to install cork on the wall behind washer and dryer for sound damping (and looks). Which type of tile would be best for this? A: First I would…
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Removing Quick Step Flooring
Q: I took down a few walls and now have to add uniclic/quickstep flooring where the wall used to exist. To do this I need to remove some of the existing…
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Will cork underlayment void my flooring warranty?
A very insightful customer was discussing their flooring project with me the other day and I recommended cork underlayment for her flooring to help…
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Wood as a Border Around Travertine Tiles
Q: How would I use wood as a border around travertine tiles? I would like the wood to border each individual tile. Gail Before getting into an explanation…
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Moisture Matters – A quarter a day keep the flooring doctor away.
I don’t have enough time to go into the detailed reasons why moisture is so critical when you think about flooring, but I wanted to give a quick note…
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Westhollow Cork Problems – Follow Up
CJ wrote back to get a bit more help with his problem. The original advice I gave him with his Westhollow Cork Problem involved the two most common…
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The Tale of a Discontinued Item
Have you ever wondered how and why a flooring item gets discontinued? If not, that means you probably have not been stung by that situation, but I can…
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Stark Adhesive Coverage
Q: How many square feet does a 4 Gal Can of Stark Wood floor adhesive cover? A: Stark’s Adhesive generally will cover roughly 45-50 square feet per…
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Timing is everything
This is the time of year when everyone puts their home improvement projects a bit higher on their priority list. Flooring is certainly at the top of many…
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Floor Buying Guide
It is worth reinforcing the Flooring Buyer’s Guide. I am pressed today for schedule, but the guide has been really helpful for alot of customers! Check it…
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Replacing a Marmoleum Floor
Q: We’re moving into a 1950s Eichler home with the original (still functioning) radiant-heated floor system. It’s a great place, however, the marmoleum…
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Canine Quandary
Q: I want to replace the wall-to-wall carpeting in my house with either hardwood or bamboo flooring. I hesitate to do so because I have two large dogs (50…
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Business 2.0 – officially dead
Well I was saddened to read the story here: http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nN05209951 It talks about the…
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Installing Bamboo on a Landing
Q: I read the previous posts on installing wood on stairs and I’m ready to go except for one issue I haven’t seen addressed. I want to use the solid stair…
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What is OSB?
Q: What is OSB? Eric A: OSB stands for Oriented Strand Board. OSB evolved from Waferboard and is an engineered wood product formed by layering strands…
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TerraPass
I have heard alot of about Carbon Offset and I hesitate to do the math on my own consumption, however, I am certainly interested in companies like…
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BHK Laminate Locking Problems and Red Resin Paper
Q: I am in a dilemma with some laminate flooring I recently installed in my home. I am not happy with the joints after a week of living on the floor. I…
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Strand Bamboo – Now It Can be for You!
I have said no to most strand bamboo’s since they have been introduced for formaldehyde reasons up to now. Finally we have an engineered solution that…
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Golly – Here we go again…in Houston iFLOOR vs. Home Depot.
If you have followed this blog at all you know that from time to time we have had some difficulty with our bigger and stronger rival Home Depot. I like to…
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An installation
Here is a link to an installation time lapse. Completed by one of our star folks here at iFLOOR. Of course he is a programmer, not an installer so that…
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Westhollow Cork Problems
Q: I have Westhollow Cork flooring, it has been down for approx. 6 months. I have 3 areas where the seams between the floating planks is uneven, one side…
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Unbiased Floor Advice – Does it still exist?
This was a question was initially worked on by another great member of iFLOOR.com’s sales team James A. James and I have recently worked to help another…
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underlayment for floating floors is a very important piece of the flooring puzzle
Well with the title to this entry it should be clear that I believe the underlayment for your floating floor is CRITICAL for your floating floor…
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Moisture Concerns and Replacing Warped Flooring
Q: Hello. I need some advice. About a year ago we installed a bamboo floor (glue down) with no moisture barrier directly on our cement slab. It completely…
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歡迎到我的朋友在中國。
我致以個人和非常熱烈歡迎對讀我的BLOG 的我的朋友從中國。 這裡在這BLOG 我們談論許多事關於flooring 事務包括重要角色那中國戲劇在事務的發展。我相信, 中國有在flooring 事務的一個重要角色, 當正確規格、規程、安全和其它製造過程被跟隨。…
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Quick Step in Brand Wars II: A Laminate Showdown
Q: I just read the article on Laminates that gives stars to each brand. I am looking to purchase Quickstep but when I went to your list by brand I can…
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Eco-Friendly Flooring
As a new feature here to our Ask the Flooring Expert blog, we are going to begin doing a monthly editorial about issues that have come up frequently or…