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Replacing Old Engineered Water-Damaged Wood
Q: I have the first floor kitchen, living room & corridors oak. It is glued to the concrete slab. I have 2 other rooms on the floor with a wall-to-wall…
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New 2008 introduction
Another great 2008 introduction: Recycled Leather Flooring!!! The diverse patterns and colors make this a really unique flooring option. I am even…
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Which Way Do I Lay My Floor?
Q: How do I figure out which way to lay the flooring in the dining room. Cathie & Dan A: Typically wood floors are installed so that lengthwise they run…
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KUDOs Corner – Floor Buying
Steve, My friend and I shopped for flooring in Utica last Saturday. I had come across the website earlier in the week and we decided to drive over and…
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Engineered Hardwood Install Question
Q: I’d like to install an engineered hardwood floor over the linoleum in my kitchen. The flooring would also extend into the area between the kitchen and…
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Exdura – the hardwood flooring with a 55 Year Warranty
I am so excited to see the new line of solid hardwood flooring known as Exdura finally available on iFLOOR! This solid 3/4″ thick hardwood harvest with…
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Limestone Pitting – What to do?
Q: I have limestone tiles on my home floors. Living in Egypt, they call it a low grade marble as it’s polished to look like marble. It is now pitting and…
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Whole Foods leads again
A BusinessWeek article this week talked about the recent decision of Whole Foods to discontinue offering plastic bags. Most people who have been in a…
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Wood Flooring in a Bathroom
Q: Can hardwood be put in a Master Bathroom with a Tub and/or Shower? Anna A: You could install a wood floor into a bathroom, but I would advise against…
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It’s not you, It’s Me… Vegas Monte Carlo I am sorry.
About 1 month ago I was all set to goto Manila the Philippines and about 1 week before my arrival a MINI-COUP unfolded at my EXACT hotel. Including the…
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Cork – Planks vs Glue Down
Q: I had been previously considering terra cotta colored ceramic tiles for my kitchen as we have red dirt here in Oklahoma. Lately I have been looking…
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Floor Slab Sweating
Q: My husband and I are looking at a home to remodel, but we have been told that the slab floor sweats. Is this a problem we can fix? Angel in Kansas A…
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Laminate
A common mis-perception that seems to have made it’s way into the flooring market is that the thicker a product is the better it must be. I have talked…
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Quick Step Scraped Rustic Hickory
Q: I bought the laminate flooring I have now from IFloors and am looking forward to doing the same in the home I am building. The living/dining area is…
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I put my name on it – signed Johnny
For my colleague and friends: An inspirational real story about how people make a difference. I love the story. I put my name on it – will you? CLICK HERE…
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Flooring and Arthritis
Q: Hi, my grandfather would like to know the best type of flooring to have if dealing with arthritis. He currently has a floor that is carpeted over…
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KUDOs Corner – Flooring
Dear Sir I wanted to take a moment to let you know that the very high quality of store management and personnel in your Melbourne FL store and the skills…
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Washington Post Mention about iFLOOR
A wise writer and columnist in the Washington Post gave us a quick mention which my cool GOOGLE Alerts helped me notice. The article titled, Good Deals…
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Popping Noise from Tile
Q: I just had a new porcelain tile floor put down on top of a concrete subfloor. Since then I seem to have been a few popping noises in the house at…
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DEAL O THE DAY
I noticed that iFLOOR is offering a handscraped laminate for only $2.49 this morning. That is a great break through price and something I am certain won’t…
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Laminate Near a Fireplace
Q: I want to install laminate in my family room. I do have a fireplace that has brick in front of it about 2 ft. Sometimes the fire place does project…
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Hollow Spots in a Bellefloor Maple Floor
Q: I just got 1100 sf of Bellefloor hard maple installed over concrete sub-floor. I had the installer put MVP sealer just to be on safe side. After the…
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Fading Brazilian Cherry Flooring
Q: I have a less than two year old Brazilian Cherry hardwood floor throughout most of our home. We had placed little area rugs on the floor in front of…
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SlickDeals.com
It is always fun to have a big and vibrant web community notice your company. SlickDeals.com is one of the best known and active communities for consumers…
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Smell from Konecto Presitge Flooring
Q: Two weeks ago we installed Konecto Prestige flooring. We’ve had our windows and doors open daily all that time due to the warm weather we’ve had…
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How Long to Wait Before Putting Furniture Back on to a Bamboo Floating Floor?
Q: We are planning on installing a bamboo floating floor throughout our first floor (on-grade slab). How long should we wait to allow the…
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Underlayment for floating floors
Some topics are so important that they deserve repetition and additional information. Today’s topic is underlayment for floating floors. A floating floor…
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Chip in Laminate Floor
Q: I unfortunately have a chip in my Shaw Natural Sensations Classic Maple floor laminate floor in my living room, it is a surface chip (not deep set) and…
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KUDOs Corner
Absolutely a true CHAMPION. Great work Angela!!! Tempe, AZ is on the map! KUDOS! ________________________________________ From: Elizabeth H Sent: Friday…
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36 months same as cash?
Well I have officially lost my mind. When marketing said they wanted to offer a long term financing program to help our customers invest in making their…
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Laminate Flooring for Basement
Q: Of the laminate floor products you carry, which do you recommend for a basement area. I have heard Formica brand is the only true “water proof”…
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Care and Finish of Cork Floor
Q: When we purchased Westhollow® Cork Provincial Collection Lunenburg we were told that after a couple of years we would probably need to apply a new…
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A blast from the past…
My attention was called to a article back from 2004 that was in Inc. Magazine that spoke in part of iFLOOR and some of our journey. In the article we are…
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Stair Tread Expansion Gap
Q: I am in a similar situation as Tim from May 2007 and I am about to redo stairs that were previously carpeted. As with Tim I tore out the old carpeting…
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Glue Residue
Q: HELP!!!! I am having new engineered wood flooring installed in my 1968 home. I can’t seem to remove all of the glue residue from the installation. In…
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Birthday fun!
I saw some great photos the other day of practical jokes that some of the “crazy accountants” are playing on each other here at the STORE SUPPORT CENTER…
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Versalock Floor Problem
Q: I’ve been reading many of the questions/answers in this column and I have an idea about the cause of our problem, but here goes… We had a Shaw…
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Google Checkout
Another technology breakthrough from the IT guys and our partner Google. Sometimes it can be difficult shopping online. You have potentially hundreds of…
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The Reveal – Our New Bamboo Grand Finale
Jeanette and Carl from Troy, MI have recently submitted this great story about their new flooring: As promised, here are our before and after images. I’ve…
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Are you an aspiring architect?
Don’t forget to check out the iFLOOR diagramming tool which will help you size your flooring project. For more detail –CLICK HERE to check out a prior…
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Cork in a Bath Room or Laundry Room
Q: Can I use cork in a laundry room? how about a bathroom? Thanks, Maureen Felman A: Yes. Before you get too far though, let’s go over a few bits of…
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News? I just read this on a news site. It was about iFLOOR.
Top Direct Retailer, iFLOOR.com, Selects AlertSite for Web Site Performance Monitoring COCONUT CREEK, Fla., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ — AlertSite(R), a leading…
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Wood Flooring Over Tile
Q: I have bought a house in Bella Vista, Arkansas. I would like to use engineered wood floors over the existing white ceramic tile. Can I do that or do I…
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Kudos Corner – The beginning
As a regular feature here I thought I would reserve each Wednesday for the KUDO’s Corner. I get tons of messages from customers that report a really…
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Moving Tile – Glue?
Q: Help, I have a basement floor of a new house that I use to display antique cars. The floor is 4″ concrete with gravel then plastic under the concrete…
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The Orlando International Builders Show(IBS) is coming up!
It’s that time of year again, the Orlando IBS show is almost here. This has been touted as the largest single trade show in the world boasting nearly…
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Basement Installation Question
Q: I live in New York and need to do my basement using wood flooring. Do I need to do anything other than what you have suggested? Should I buy certain…
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A Cork Project from Beginning to End
I was in the EU this past year and watched a run of flooring coming off the production lines of Westhollow cork. Then I saw the same pattern installed in…
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Transitions for Laminate Flooring
Q: When installing laminate flooring across rooms, are transitions necessary? For instance, if both a bedroom and the hallway will be the same laminate…
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Recent public mentions of iFLOOR
iFLOOR was mentioned several times in recent public newspapers, magazines and even stock analyst research papers. I thought I would share just a couple…