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Laminate Near Limestone Fireplace
Q: I’m interested in putting laminate flooring in my family room but I have one problem. We have a limestone fireplace, and there is about a 2 inch…
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Streaks on Shaw Laminate
Q: I purchased a Shaw laminate floor about 6 years ago. I was told by the sales associate in the flooring department at Home Depot to treat the floor just…
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Scratched Laminate
Q: I just installed a laminate floor in the living room and it has a scratch. Is there anything I can apply to hide the scratch??? Marge A: There are a…
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Can you use flooring for your porch (or exterior deck)?
Although I didn’t rehearse I got most of the answers to this question wrapped into this video. Take a peek. Because the question arises so often about…
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Installation in a Perfect World vs. The Real World
A few days ago I posted this blog entry: PERFECT WORLD INSTALLATION Basically that was the video how things go in the perfect world. However this video is…
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Hardwood Floors Damaged by Dog
Q: I have a large dog who has put scratches and some poke holes in my hardwood floor. 1. How can I fix the floors without taking them apart and re-doing…
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Flooring Below Grade
Q: We want to float a floor in our basement over a cement slab, but can’t tell when looking through all the products out there, which are recommended for…
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Don’t forget your stairway to Heaven.
So often people get excited about getting flooring projects going and they forget what a tremendous impact their stairway makes in an entry of the home…
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Cracking Noise from Bamboo
Q: We have a 2 yr old bamboo floor (Teregren). Installation was partially glue down (edges and in smaller spaces) and rest was nailed. Subfloor is…
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Hong Kong – What does a Typhoon Look like
I was just looking at a couple of my pictures and noticed I snapped a couple photos when I was in Hong Kong and landed and took off during a typhoon…
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Flooring for a Florida Room
Q: I live in northwestern PA. We have a Florida room which is not heated. Right now we have carpeting, but it fades so badly I would like to use a…
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Wood Flooring for Condos
Q: I am working on a condo remodel project for my second home. I would very much like to install an engineered wood floor in the great room and dining…
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Removing Self-Leveling Compound
Q: I have recently started to renovate a house. I took the carpet up and found the floor had been self leveled. Some of the self leveler had come off and…
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Wilsonart Laminate Blemish
Q: I have a real problem. My hallway is laminate and some type of acid was spilled right in the middle and caused a blemish about 2’X2′. I found someone…
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Malawi, Africa – NO MORE HARDWOOD EXPORTS
The Malawi Government, through the Ministry of Industry and Trade, has imposed a ban on export of hardwood and its products with immediate effect. The…
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Nail-down Installation Subfloor Requirements
Q: My dining room was carpeted. I removed the carpeting, pad & 5/8 ” sawdust board that was swollen and crumbling. I am left with 5/8″ plywood sheeting on…
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Cork Flooring for an Office
Q: I will be building a new office and am considering using cork flooring. I am concerned about how it will wear under areas where an office chair will…
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Flooring for a Weight Room
Q: We have just built a garage with a room above it. We are wondering what type of flooring would be best for an area used for weight lifting and aerobic…
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Patio Deck Flooring Help
Q: I have a patio deck of a commercial building that I need flooring for. The 2′ square rubber-like existing flooring has proven totally useless as it is…
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Flooded Basement with Pergo Laminate
Q: We have Pergo laminate flooring in our basement and it recently flooded (3″ of water) Do we need to pull the flooring and padding out or will it be OK…
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Go Green – Save Green! Free or discounted shipping on select items.
You’ve probably noticed that everyone and their brother are going “green” these days, whether they sell washers or widgets. While we applaud them for…
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Floating Cork over Concrete
Q: I am planning to replace the carpet in my family room with a floating cork floor (Westhollow Cordoba Natural). I haven’t checked, but I’m pretty sure…
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Installation in a Perfect World
Here is a little flooring story – kudos to all involved in putting this together!
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Protecting a Tile Garage Floor
Q: I’m looking at buying a house in LA that has a garage converted into an office. I’d like to use the garage but protect the new tile floor. I’ve seen…
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What does the Exdura Hardwood finising line look like?
If you wondered what a high quality finish line looks like I am going to share a couple photos. I won’t give away some of the cool secrets nor can I go…
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Cleaning Alloc Hardwood Floors
Q: I have an alloc wooden floor. Ive tried cleaning with different products that say they are safe for real wood floors. (Scotts liquid gold wood wash and…
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What is engineered hardwood?
I get asked all the time what exactly does the term “engineered” mean. And Although I have talked about this is the past it is worth a 2 minute review…
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Adding Shine to Procelain Tile
Q: I recently put down a porcelain floor in my entry and kitchen and now wish it had more shine, is there anything I can use to give it shine? A: There is…
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What Floor Will Stand Up to Multiple Pets?
Q: I want to remove my rugs and put a wood floor down. Problem is that I have 6 cats, 1 dog and 1 bird. The floor takes a beating. I need one that will…
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Cleaning Pergo Laminate
Q: How do I clean a Pergo laminate floor? A: Cleaning laminate floors is a fairly simple process. First make sure to sweep or vacuum the floor in order to…
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Handscraped SOLID hardwood – liquidation priced
I have seen a ton of handscraped hardwood both engineered and solid being sold at retail for $15.00-$25.00 per square foot. We were lucky to pick up some…
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Floating Floors need a T-molding – how to install?
Here is a great little video about installing a T-molding for a glue down installation.
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Creaking Shaw Laminate
Q: I have an inlaw suite in my basement that we finished in 2000. At the time I had an inexpensive laminate flooring put down directly over the concrete…
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Old School – New School
When we first started iFLOOR, we asked ourselves, “How do we take an already confusing process (buying flooring) and make it work on the internet?” Well…
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Replacing Carpet with Laminate
Q: My home is a double-home trailer and I want to remove my carpet and install laminate flooring. What do I need to install this floor on my trailer? Hope…
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Cork Flooring – IFLOOR Video
Here is a quick video about the important topic of underlayment – in particular about 6mm cork underlayment.
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A couple more tourist shots
As a mentioned some of my photos had to be taken on my phone, which are not awesome quality – but I wanted to share a nice area in Shanghai called old…
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DuraCeramic Wood Grain
Q: I am looking for some DuraCeramic Wood Grain flooring. It looks like a wood laminate, but is made with the same materials as the DuraCeramic tile. Can…
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Flooring for an Elevator
Q: I am looking for some light-weight eco-friendly flooring for our elevators in our condo. Do you have suggestions. It is a contemporary building with…
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Nutty Deals
You may have noticed some amazing deals on the site lately, and quite frankly, I’m not sure how long they’re going to last. It seems my voicemail and…
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Installing Laminate Flooring at 45 or 90 Degree Angles
Q: I am considering installing a border of dark walnut around the main light planking of my kitchen DIY project. Some of the border planks will have to be…
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Some pictures from a tourist stop
My camera actually died while I was in China a few weeks back so I used my phone, so the pictures aren’t great, but they are all I can share. Below are a…
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Slow going
I have not been able to post regularly as normal when travel gets crazy it is hard to keep up. Last week I traveled to North Carolina to see the Exdura…
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T-Molding Transitions
Q: I have an area of transition from the hardwood I am installing over to a tile floor where the span is longer than 1 piece of T Molding. What is the…
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Laminate Over Vinyl
Q: We have vinyl in the kitchen and laundry. Must I remove the vinyl before installing laminate? A: As long as your vinyl is in very good shape – no…
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Columbia Click Floor Buckling/Warping
Q: Help! About 7 years ago my wife and I installed Columbia Click flooring in our Condo. IT has been great – up until about two weeks ago. In our dining…
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Pergo for a Bathroom
Q: What do you think of laminate flooring in a bathroom? Also if you use Pergo would you still need and underlay and what type? Thanks Leo A: Laminate can…
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Laminate Flooring – AC Ratings
For our August edition editorial here on the Ask the Expert blog, I wanted to break down and discuss AC ratings for laminate floors. AC or Abrasion Class…
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Gas prices are all we hear about
You can’t go anywhere these days without hearing about gas prices, and since we ship more flooring across the globe than just about anyone, I probably…