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Replacing Salito Tile With Hardwood
Q: I have Salito flooring and I would love to have hard wood flooring installed in the entire house. My question is do I need to remove this floor and if…
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Workout Room Flooring Suggestions
Q: I would like to install a laminate (floating) floor in my basement, in a workout area (under a treadmill and a recumbent bike). My home is 17 years…
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Overage also known as Waste
When you plan a construction job of any kind you are inevitably going to need to talk about a so called “waste factor.” To a guy like myself that tries to…
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Need Help Choosing a Floor – Scratch Problems
Q: I have two four year olds and a large dog. I installed bamboo in the bedrooms, but its scratched already. Is laminate scratch proof or what type do you…
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Area Rugs
Any home that searches for a unique look must consider art work of some kind. The kind I like the best is art work for your floor. Recently I was looking…
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Installation Question – New Floor and a Grand Piano
Q: I am going to have my parquet floor with new hardwood floor in my living room, which houses a small concert grand piano. The subfloor is concrete, and…
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Old Floor, Old Dog, Old Dad
Q: We have an old (30 years) linoleum kitchen/dining room floor and an old dog who slips quite a bit on the floor. I’ve spread throw rugs and runners…
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Konecto with Underlayment
Q: I am interested in using the Konecto vinyl planks in my kitchen/breakfast nook/den. Unfortunately the existing flooring is the old ’70s style “brick”…
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Laminate – Which Brand is the Best?
Q: What is the best brand and series Wood laminate flooring on the market today? A: This is a very tough question to answer as the “best” is usually a…
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Void Where prohibited
There are lots of neat opportunities if you are a flooring consumer in the market right now. Cool products, innovative design, spectacular engineering and…
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Installing Over Tile
Q: Is there a floor that can be install over ceramic tile? Vinyl or wood..has this been done where you can put a floor leveler on ceramic fill the grout…
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Kudos Corner
Joan Castillo did an outstanding job in placing our order and tracking our delivery. Her customer service skills are excellent. She polite, courteous…
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Bruce Locking Hardwood Over Concrete
Q: We recently decided to pull up our carpeting and install hardwood flooring on the rest of our home’s ground floor. There is currently Bruce engineered…
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Commercial Laminate Flooring
The newer line of True Flooring is something really impressive. I realize I have talked about it before, but the more I see this wide planked luxuriously…
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Clicking Noises from Oak Parquet Floor
Q: Hello – Four months ago, we moved into our home which has 3 year-old oak flooring throughout. For the last few weeks, we have been hearing ‘random’…
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Konecto Flooring
I have really seen a lot of excitement around this newer evolution of vinyl flooring which will finally get this category competitive with laminate. A…
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Possible Water Damage To Floor?
Q: I recently had 20” x 20” porcelain tiles installed in my kitchen – tiles were installed on top of an old raised wood subfloor and then used a 1/4”…
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Smudge Marks On My Floor
Q: I used Murphy’s soap on my maple hardwood floor this past Christmas; I didn’t dilute it enough so I had a film over my floor and every mark noticeable…
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Congoleum Kitchen Floor Buckling
Q: Hello, recently this week we had a leak from our dishwasher which caused some water to go between our congoleum floor and the wood sub-floor. Now as a…
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Hidden Values!
I did a search to find some of the coolest hidden hardwood values and I really loved what I saw! (at least the ones with Images) These are cool and have a…