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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”…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…