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Flooring for an Outdoor Porch
Q: What do you suggest as flooring for a screened in porch? It does get wetness from rain and wind. A: Any time you plan to put some form of flooring…
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Kudos to Stanton California – Flooring is fun
Dear iFLOOR, Orville and I want to tell you how wonderful our floors turned out. Lou was the BEST in assisting us with picking the right type and color…
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Bamboo Installation Questions
Q: I have chosen solid vertical natural bamboo for a remodel and have some questions, if you would be so kind to answer. 1. Since the bamboo I want comes…
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Pergo Over Tile
Q: I have an older home and when we first moved in back in 1991 we put a 6 x 6 ceramic tile in our kitchen for flooring. After removing all the carpeting…
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Waxing Engineered Floors
Q: We have just installed an engineered floor in our small basement bathroom. We love the lush and exotic look, and our GC advised us to investigate…
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Kudos to Rita & the team in Tinley Park
I just wanted to send a quick note to let you know how pleased my wife and myself were with the customer service that we received from Rita. We are in the…
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Stair Nose Question
Q: What is the difference between flush stair nose and overlapping stair nose? What are the advantages/disadvantages of each? Berta R. Tucson, AZ A: Based…
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Kudos to Ecommerce team and fulfillment
I wanted to take this opportunity to let you know how pleased I am with the purchase of my Somerset Country Collection hardwood flooring. I needed over…
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Laminate Floor Questions – Prep Work and a Piano
Q: I’m looking at using some of the floating laminate products and wondered if the 30 yr old vinyl should be removed? It’s got some cuts and scrapes, and…
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Kudos to Tacoma
Dear iFloor, Amy in the Tacoma store helped us and she was great!!!! I sent her an email so here is a copy of that positive response, we are very…
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Which Sound Barrier to Use?
Q: I purchased 3″ wide 5/16″ T&G engineered flooring to be installed floating on a cement pad. I also purchased sound 6 barrier II and Poly vapor barrier…
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Kudos to Utica & Amir
Dear iFLOOR, I just wanted to send a note to comment on the help & service that Amir Jusic provided to my wife & I. We went to many different stores…
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Floating Cork on Stairs
Q: I got a Westhollow Algonquin floating cork floor from iFloor. I want to install some of it on the tops of 3 stairs. This is new construction and the…
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Chicago iFLOOR & Harris Bank working for you
Kudos to Ben, Orbie and the team at Harris bank to work together to help customers in the Chicago area put together great home improvement offers…
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Rolling Chairs Over the Hardwood Floor
Q: We are planning our new office and would like to have the hardwood floor in it. One hesitation is that all our computer stations have chairs with…
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Kudos To James!
Hi, I just wanted to let you know what an asset Jame Awasen is to your company. He is extremely knowledgeable about your products and answered any and all…
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Laminate Flooring in a Basement
Q: Hi. I want to install laminate flooring in the basement of our house. Currently, there is carpet over concrete in the basement, but it looks old and…
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Westhollow Cork: Labrador
Q: I recently purchased and installed your Westhollow: Labrador Cork floating flooring and need some technical advice regarding sealing. I know that…
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Kudos to Nashua
Thanks Jim. It has been a pleasure doing business with you. We were sweating this flooring decision out, considering lots of different flooring selections…
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Solution to a Noisy Laminate Floor
Q: The owner of the condo above mine has installed laminate flooring. He did so because of the amount of noise (loud talking, TV, and especially…
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Kudos To Concord California
I discovered your store through your friendly web site. However my letter is to say how helpful Julia Powell and her team at the Concord store were in…
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Flooring for an Unheated Summer Cottage
Q: I am considering laminate and hardwood for my flooring choice in a lake facing home which will be left unheated for most the winter months (i live in…
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Kudos to Charlotte
From a customer in Charlotte, North Carolina: Steve, I just wanted to let you know that my wife and I recently visited your store located in Charlotte…
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Handscraped Exotics
Just sharing some customer photos from a hand scraped exotic floor. Very cool and highly functional. Exotics are going up in price now and in the fall as…
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Lotus Land Bamboo Flooring
Q: We recently added Lotus Land Quick Click Bamboo flooring in our townhouse (slab – so we ordered the ‘float’ type). Everything went perfectly and it…
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Animal Urine and Laminate
Q: I have been looking at laminate flooring to replace my carpeting in my home. My major concern is doggie urine. Can these floors resist the urine that…
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Quick Step Question
Q: I am getting ready to install laminate floors on the entire downstairs of my house – I want these to look as close to wood as possible, and I’ve found…
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Vinyl Composition Tile in a Garage
Q: I want to lay down vinyl composition tile in my garage. I don’t know what to do. I have a seam (expansion joint) running down the middle of my garage…
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We’ve been everywhere man, we’ve been everywhere…
More and more I see iFLOOR mentioned or resourced as an expert in print media as well as TV and cable too. HGTV, DIY, The Washington Post, New York Times…
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Kahrs Hardwood Floor – Warped Boards
Q: I am in the process of installing hardwood floor (Kahrs Brazilian Cherry) in our home, and some of the boards are significantly warped out of the box…
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Outdoor Patio
Q: We have an outdoor cement ‘patio’ that we are thinking of refinishing with the patio wood tiles and we are wondering what we need to do to the cememt…
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Reuse, Reduce, Recycle Flooring
Kudos to the Distribution and Logistics team for really trying to do their part to reduce our footprint. We have continually tried at all levels to be…
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Transitions from Cork to Marble/Tile
Q: What kind of transitions would you recommend between cork flooring and marble flooring (part of a fireplace)? How about cork flooring and tile…
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Kudos to Scott for doing the right thing
From time to time it is important to recognize someone for doing the right thing even if it is not directly work related. Scott has been driving for…
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Flooring Over Concrete in a Kitchen
Q: I have a long thin crack in my cement slab kitchen floor. The crack is about 1/4 of an inch, but is about 12 feet long. I have tried ceramic tile, but…
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New Look & Feel
Kudos to the tech and marketing team for pulling off a nicely executed site look and feel update along with some cool engineering stuff which you can’t…
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Upcoming trip to China
Hopefully I my plans will come together for a quick trip to China in the next couple weeks to see some of the best factories in the world and perhaps even…
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Nailing 3/8″ Engineered Floors
Q: I am installing 3/8″ Bubinga Deep Cognac Engineered hardwood flooring that I ordered from iFloor. I have chosen the staple/nail option for…
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Self-Adhesive Tiles Over Pergo
Q: I just put down my new Pergo flooring my house and it looks beautiful! I was wondering if I can stick 10 self adhesive vinyl tiles on top of Pergo…
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Flooring for a Cabin
Q: I want to put laminate or some kind of flooring up at our lake cabin.. The cabin is not heated during the winter time the cabin sits on a wood flood up…
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Shaw Engineered Floors
Q: We got a decent price on upgrading the flooring in our new home from carpet to an engineered wood floor. They offer mannington, bruce, and shaw. The…
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Free Catalogue Preview
Although we don’t want to waste trees by running hundreds of thousands of our new iFLOOR catalogue I did want to share the “pre-press” version…
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Back in Seattle
Another whirlwind tour to visit with the great people of iFLOOR. Flew out Monday evening and visited Balitmore, Parkville (MD), Wilimington (DE)…
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Wide Plank Flooring
Q: We are building a 2300 sq ft ranch w/ heated basement in the Chicago area. We like the look of wide plank flooring but builder has not worked with it…
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DIY Tips for a Successful Floor Project
June’s editorial will go over a few tips for the DIY folks out there as we get into the swing of the DIY season. New flooring is a very common DIY project…
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Refinishing Bamboo
Q: Is is possible to refinish a solid bamboo floor? If so, would you use the same techniques as refinishing any hardwood floor? Thanks, Mike A: Solid…
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Greasy Residue on Brazilian Cherry Floor
Q: We have a Brazilian Cherry floor that has developed an almost “greasy” residue on it. The floor is 4 years old, and has never been cleaned with…
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West Roxbury, MA – iFLOOR Store
The West Roxbury store around Boston is a great store with great people setting new records. I have attached some pictures that show this location which…
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Decorating with Pergo
Q: I have a decorating question. In 1998 i put Pergo laminate in my kitchen and laundry room. Let me back up a minute. I live in a mobile home. I now want…
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A Bamboo Excursion
Part of buying bamboo right is knowing where bamboo comes from, how it is harvested, managed and otherwise cared for environmentally speaking. There are…