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Flooring Advice – Laminate or Hardwood?
Q: Which flooring would hold up the best in heavy traffic areas? I was leaning towards wood, but heard laminate was good. Please give me advice. Thank…
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Wood Flooring Over Uneven Wood and Cement Subfloor
Q: My husband and I recently purchased an older home and are remodeling. We pulled up the old carpet in the family room and discovered that a little more…
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Floating or Nail-down Installation?
Q: We plan to install about 600 sq ft of engineered wood floor over in 5 areas, all interconnected. Are we better off using a floating system, or nail…
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Vinyl Flooring on Stairs
Q: I am elderly and due to age – the carpet’s and mine, I need to replace carpet on the stairs and upstairs. I want something other than carpet for ease…
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Flooring Covering Advice
Q: What would be good durable floor covering choices for a basement apartment remodel. The existing floor is concrete. A: Depending on the type of…
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They made too much, so I bought it all!
One of the benefits of being one of the largest flooring companies in the world is that when your vendors overestimate on production or have other…
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Replacing 9″ x 9″ Parquet Tiles
Q: I am looking for 9″ by 9″ tongue and groove parquet flooring to replace water damaged tiles — I believe it may be model “K-36.” Do you know where I can…
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Kudos to LA
Kudos to Jamie and the good folks in LA who are getting it done. From: brent Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 8:57 AM To: Jaime Lopez Subject: final shot…
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Success is their middlename
We have such superlative installation talent – they have no conducted more than 10,000 in home service calls and the number continues to grow. A video…
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Floating Hardwood Meets Stair
Q: I’m going to install Mannington Caspian 5″ LocNgo and I have a problem with the hallway. One side of the hall is wall, the other meets the molding to…
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How to clean your floor?
As I have mentioned many times in the past cleaning and maintenance of your flooring is CRITICAL to long term satisfaction. Check out my video with a…
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Radiant Heat and Floating Floors
Q: I am expanding my kitchen and some part of the expansion will be over an open area underneath; therefore, I want to put in a heated floor, preferably…
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Frequently Asked Flooring Questions (VIDEO Responses)
We were talking about some FAQ’s (Frequently Asked Questions about Flooring) and we had an idea to just turn on the iFLOOR TV Camera and have me talk for…
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Hardwood Flooring And Older Dogs
Q: I have 2 dogs 10,13,yrs. So i have to plan for accidents.my mother had gym finish on her floor, does any hardwood come with a protective finish or…
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Pine Flooring Outside
Q: My contractor wants to use tongue and groove pine flooring on the deck. The deck doesn’t have a slope. Will there be enough space for the wood to move…
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Flooring for a Bathroom with Children
Q: Can you use wood flooring in the bathroom, which get very wet with children? Thank you – Nancy Click Below For The Answer!
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Transitioning from Laminate to Tile
Q: We have laminate over the majority of our upstairs and in some rooms it connects to ceramic tile and the laminate piece in between the two types of…
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Flooring that Fits
Here’s a quick tip of the day: When installing your floating flooring (or fitting your floors for our British friends) you need to consider what type of…
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Installing Tile on a Wood Deck
Q: We currently have a raised wood deck off our living space, and we are wanting to have stone laid on top of the wood. I have heard about floating tiles…
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Gluing vs Stapling
Q: I am interested in purchasing some engineered flooring. I have installed engineered flooring before that could be glued or stapled down. I chose to…
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Consumer Reports gets it.
Well in the world we live in today the buzz word is value. Walmart, Costco, Target will fare better than Sears, Nordstrom and Tiffany. Clearly iFLOOR is…
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Bruce Flooring Problem
Q: I had Bruce hardwood floors installed in my retirement home. Weeks later, holes and cracks and everything else started happening to my floor. Called in…
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Time is Tight
I can’t seem to find enough time in a day to post on the BLOG. I will have to catch up some night when everyone is sleeping. In the mean time here are…
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Hardwood Flooring Over Radiant Heat
Q: Hi good morning, we have a concrete floor in our walkout basement we are putting in an apartment I would love to have hardwood flooring we have radiant…
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Bamboo in Colorado
Q: I read in our local paper someone complaining that they got bamboo floors and they were drying out and falling apart in our dry Colorado climate. Is…
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Laminate for a Sun Room
Q: I would like to install a wood laminate in a new sun room. The room is built over a wood deck, but will be insulate. Is a laminate a good choice for…
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Transitioning Between Different Laminate Floors
Q: I’ve just had my old Pergo oak floor removed due to warping from water damage. My house is on the market and I can’t afford to wait weeks to match the…
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Still trying to keep up
I have been jammed up and haven’t had any time to post on the blog and so for the folks emailing me to get on track I apologize. I will post a couple…
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Pergo Cherry Blocked Laminate
Q: About 10 years ago I had installed “Cherry Blocked” Pergo laminate in my kitchen. I am in the midst of redoing my kitchen and need to patch the floor…
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Waterproof Flooring
Q: We are refinishing our basement and I want to use a waterproof flooring material to prevent potential flood damage, yet it must be very comfortable to…
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My New Laminate Floor is Noisy – Help!
Q: Our new laminate is only a week old and it goes from our entry way throughout our kitchen…..the entry way feels solid and has no noise, the kitchen…
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Travel, Travel, Travel
I just returned from a couple weeks of travel. I don’t have time to post now, but thought I would share a couple quick photos from some of my journeys:
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Builder Grade Bamboo Flooring
Q: What is the significance/meaning of the the term “Builder” Bamboo? Thanks. A: Basically put “builder” grades are commonly made of a mix of grade A and…
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Installing Laminate Over Tile
Q: Have ceramic tile on my floor now thinking of replacing it with laminate do have to remove the tile or can I lay on top of it A: Assuming that your…
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Tigerwood(s) – The best golfer and one of my favorite floors
Nobody in the world of PGA golf can compare to Tiger Woods. I was in China a couple weeks ago and watched part of that match that he battled into the…
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Wood Flooring for Bathrooms
Q: Is a wood floor ok for a bathroom? A: Tough question because the answer is not simple. Yes and no both apply here, so let me dig in a bit and explain…
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Pergo Underlayment
Q: I am going to install a 12mm laminate over new concrete slab. The slab has some imperfections, notably some uneveness, noticeable only when laying a…
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Underlayment for Condos
Q: I currently live in a condo and my upstairs neighbor wants to install a wood or laminate floor. They currently have the builder supplied carpet and…
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Measuring for Carpet
Q: How do you know how much carpet you need? I have a split level with big stairs. Thanks, Iris A: Your best bet here would to to measure out each room…
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Cleaning Laminate – Bissell Steam Mop
Q: I have installed laminate flooring. I own a Bissell steam hard flooring cleaner. It heats water until steam comes out and its special padding mops the…
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Dalton Georgia – Flooring Capital of the World!
Here are some photos of the Dalton location billboard which is very visible as cars exit the freeway and head on over the find the finest flooring at…
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Outdoor Flooring Options – Decks and Patios
As we get into the height of warm weather, DIY projects and various home make-overs, I’d like to go over outdoor flooring options for decks, patios and…
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Brooklyn is on Fire, Literally this time
In the past I have referred to the Brooklyn New York iFLOOR store as being “on fire” with their high energy, huge service commitment and excellence in…