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Linoleum Installation Question
Q: Can I lay lino flooring in my bathroom over laminate underlay instead of using hardboard? A: Laminate is a floating floor. Regardless of the style of…
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Peg Flooring
Q: Our home was built in 1965. It has some amazing peg hardwood flooring throughout the house. (70% of the flooring is this). The problem is the Den…
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Scratches in a Pergo Floor
Q: A workman at my home wanted to improve the finish on my Pergo Floor, so he applied a lacquer over it. It looked good until the dogs ran on it and the…
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Floating vs Glued Wooden Floor
Q: We have a floating wooden floor on very small portion of our floor. I want to put a wooden floor over the complete floor. Our builder suggested that…
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Cleaning a Wood Floor
Q: I’ve installed a engineered Mullican flooring. How do you clean it? What I mean is if you want to mop, do you just use fresh water then dry it with a…
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Winter Wonderland
The snow is nice to look at, but brutal to drive in. We have run about 800 miles much of which was covered by snow and ice. But we chained up and pressed…
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Patio Sweating
Q: What can be put on top of a concrete patio to stop the sweating. We thought about brick pavers with plastic under the brick. Will this work? Is there…
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Merry Christmas
Traveling in Idaho with lots of snow. A close friend sent me a copy to this video recounting the “good ol” tech days. Here it is for your Christmas…
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Problems with Gypcrete
Q: We are installing stretch in carpet in a multi level condo bldg. The contractor leveled the floor with gypcrete( the manufacturer escapes me). The…
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Different Woods in Flooring
Q: We bought an older home and once we removed carpeting and linoleum discovered that the wood flooring underneath is made up of different kinds of wood…
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Question About Bamboo Floor Problem
Q: I purchased bamboo flooring from ifloor and had an installer lay the floors down. Unfortunately, he left pretty large gaps between some of the sections…
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Flooring – I NEED HELP! – Follow Up Part 3
Time to finish up with the last of Jackie’s questions where we’ll discuss cork and a bit more about being eco-friendly with adhesives: Q…
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A quick visit with Santa and the Orlando crew
After a visit with Oakland Park I went on to Melbourne and then finished off in Orlando with a special surprise Santa bonus. The trips were very fun and…
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Flooring – I NEED HELP! – Follow Up Part 2
Let’s get back on board with Jackie and get to some of her questions concerning tile flooring and solutions to some of her dilemmas: Q: I am requesting…
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Saso Hardwood Flooring Continues to Shine
Ever since the first 2008 introductions started hitting our showrooms over the past couple months the response has been overwhelming the styles are…
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Flooring – I NEED HELP! – Follow Up Part 1
For this particular follow up I have pulled it apart into 3 posts because I discuss several topics in some length. So let’s begin with Jackie’s dilemma at…
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A reminder
Recently I was speaking with a customer who was asking about a bamboo that we carried for a competitor that was selling “the same thing” for 1.29 per…
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Cork Flooring Over Marble
Q: Hi, I’ve just bought a condo with a black (YAK!!) marble floor in the kitchen. I’m thinking of covering it with a cork floor. What are the do’s and…
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Quick Christmas Gift Idea
Although shipping times are becoming more and more tough at this time of year, if you are still needing a gift idea I suggest checking out the clearance…
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Florida Time
Time to head to Florida to visit our very capable team down there. Yes, it is such hard work to leave rainy Seattle to go visit the warm and sunny Florida…
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Creaking in Laminate Floor
Q: I installed laminate flooring throughout my first floor and spots of my floor creak. I put the padding and followed all the steps. The floor is made by…
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Flooring – I NEED HELP!
Q: I have several flooring questions for you. My condo flooded August 14th (yes, that is over 2 months ago!). I have been struggling with deciding on the…
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Carpet Tile in a Basement – DIY Friendly?
Q: I am finishing my basement and naturally need to cover concrete floors. I want to be economical but also have a great-looking floor, so I am…
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Beauty Divine! Tigerwood and more in Magnolia…
These photos speak for themselves. But I wanted to share a spectacular series of custom homes recently completed by our builder team specialist Gene…
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APC Cork Flooring
Q: I am a little confused about what type of underlayment I should purchase for the APC Athene Cork flooring I am purchasing. The floor I am installing…
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Emerging – Konecto Flooring
If you haven’t checked out the advancements in vinyl flooring using a floating installation system you are missing out. Vinyl planks or tiles, but with a…
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Laminate Over Commercial Carpet?
Q: Hello – I am interested in installing laminate in my office. Can I place it over the commercial carpet that we have now? Thank you, Michelle A: The…
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Start Spreading the News!! We’re open in New York Baby!
New York is finally completed with some signage for our Brooklyn location it is a great location with great people driving toward positive iFLOOR…
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Screened Porch Flooring for Incontinent Cat
Q: We have an incontinent cat who is presently confined to one room of our house which is covered with incontinence pads. We would like to give her more…
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Can I get a Doggie Bag for my flooring leftovers?
Flooring jobs and construction jobs in general have a common situation that arises: How much do I need and how much should I have left over? Often when…
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Radiant Heat and Flooring
Q: We’re building a new home and intend to include radiant heated floors, with PEX tubing in concrete below grade, and in gypcrete, as part of a…
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Now Open in San Francisco
The downtown(ish) San Francisco location has been opened recently and I was pleased to see the first of our signage getting installed recently. This will…
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Laminate vs Hardwood
I got this question from a comment on our video How to Install Westhollow Laminate Flooring on YouTube. Check it out if you get a chance as its a great…
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Ok Made it – Dinner with the Stars
Finally made it to our destination and time to get to work. More posts soon. Here are a couple photos to share from a Dinner with some of the brightest…
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Question: REALLY Uneven Floors
Q: I own a 200 year old farmhouse, I bought it as a fixer-upper. The biggest problem that I’m running into is that none of the floors are anything close…
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Cat Odor – Can I Remove it from Wood Floors?
Q: My husband and I are considering buying a house that needs a lot of work which was built in 1840. It has heart of pine floors throughout the house. The…
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Yes, I’m turning Japanese – I really think so
After a series of long delays I have been held over in Japan. Hopefully more progress tomorrow. Already behind schedule! Here are a couple snapshots I…
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Bamboo Over Black Mastic
Q: I have wood parquet tiles that are attached to a cement slab with black mastic. The tiles are in bad shape and some “pop” as they detach and reattach…
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Time to go site seeing…Manila Here I come
Time to go visit my partners, colleagues and friends in the Philippines, but since my schedule is so tight I will only have a few days there so I plan to…
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BR-111 5/16″ Solid Brazilian Hickory – Installation Question
Q: We’re interested in the BR111 Brazilian Hickory, 5/16 solid for a kitchen floor. Currently have above grade, solid sheet no-wax Mannington floor in…
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Floods
As many of you have heard the great Northwest has been very wet recently. As a side effect shipments from Seattle are suffering 1-2 day delays. Obviously…
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How many square feet?
Alot folks start the floor buying process without arming themselves with a critical piece of information. What is that piece of information? How big is…
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Vinyl Flooring Tiles – Harley Davidson Theme
Q: I am looking for orange and black vinyl flooring squares (we are Harley-Davidson people and would like to do the floor of our enclosed trailer in the…
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Exotic Hardwood Flooring
Not alot of time at the moment, so here are more shots of exotic floors which take my breath away. When people think about exotic hardwood, tigerwood…
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Slopping Floor – What should I Do?
Q: We just bought a home built in 1950 and we just notice that our second floor is slopping and I would love to put new floors down so i would like to…
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A Bamboo Forest
Here are some photos of a bamboo forest that was freshly culled. Of course culling a forest is better than clear cutting so I thought I would share some…
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Home Office Flooring
Q: My home office is upstairs and next to my son’s bedroom. I would like to replace the carpets with a harder surface but I am concerned about noise. I…
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Can I Install Laminate Over An Existing Floor?
Q: This summer we decided to take up the rugs in our dining room and living room, along with the adjacent tiles(peel and press) to expose the oak flooring…
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Problems With Finish – Dull or Milky Appearance, Spots, Flaking and Bubbling
Up for December in our line of editorials will be a bit of information on reasons why problems occur in a finish. From spots and dull or milky appearances…