Archive Floor du Jour

The flooring library

Page 35 of 60 — reporting, guides, and hard-won buying intelligence.

The latest from this collection

Clear reporting and practical guidance for the decisions beneath your feet.

More from the collection

  • Flooring

    New Commercial AC5 laminate – TRUE FLOORING from the EU

    Wow – the 2008 introductions are coming fast! I just got this memo for a new EU produced AC5 Commercial quality laminate WITH FSC certification. This is…

  • Click-lock Longstrip Bamboo

    Q: We recently installed springwood click-lock longstrip bamboo throughout our entire first floor. It looks like someone had on a high heal shoe, with…

  • Cork Flooring

    Q: 1) I wish to use the Westhollow “click together” cork flooring of two complementing colors in a border pattern. Can this be done and what kinds of…

  • Flooring

    Kudos to Sacramento

    Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 4:54 PM To: Steve Simonson Subject: BHK cherry laminate Dear Steve–I tried the customer satisfaction response with your…

  • Tile Patterned Laminate and Cleaning

    Q: I’m looking to do some remodeling in my bathroom. It currently has a tile floor and my pets fur and general mucky muck gets trapped in the grooves when…

  • Flooring

    2007 Recap

    After watching every bloody TV news program run down the TOP 2007 moments, etc… I figured I would jump on the band wagon and show some top photos from…

  • Flooring

    Happy New Year

    Happy New Year to each of you! We’ll be back in the saddle this week with LOTS going on. Stay tuned for fun flooring facts throughout 2008.

  • Cleaning Marble

    Q: We have marble flooring in our master bath, on which a cat has urinated in several places. It appears that the finish is gone and a residue is left…

  • Flooring

    New Floors in the New Year

    Welcome to the New Year folks! Flooring, much like many other industries, sees new releases, products and even innovations each year. Much like cars, the…

  • Flooring

    Linoleum Installation Question

    Q: Can I lay lino flooring in my bathroom over laminate underlay instead of using hardboard? A: Laminate is a floating floor. Regardless of the style of…

  • Peg Flooring

    Q: Our home was built in 1965. It has some amazing peg hardwood flooring throughout the house. (70% of the flooring is this). The problem is the Den…

  • Flooring

    Scratches in a Pergo Floor

    Q: A workman at my home wanted to improve the finish on my Pergo Floor, so he applied a lacquer over it. It looked good until the dogs ran on it and the…

  • Floating vs Glued Wooden Floor

    Q: We have a floating wooden floor on very small portion of our floor. I want to put a wooden floor over the complete floor. Our builder suggested that…

  • Cleaning a Wood Floor

    Q: I’ve installed a engineered Mullican flooring. How do you clean it? What I mean is if you want to mop, do you just use fresh water then dry it with a…

  • Flooring

    Winter Wonderland

    The snow is nice to look at, but brutal to drive in. We have run about 800 miles much of which was covered by snow and ice. But we chained up and pressed…

  • Patio Sweating

    Q: What can be put on top of a concrete patio to stop the sweating. We thought about brick pavers with plastic under the brick. Will this work? Is there…

  • Flooring

    Merry Christmas

    Traveling in Idaho with lots of snow. A close friend sent me a copy to this video recounting the “good ol” tech days. Here it is for your Christmas…

  • Flooring

    Problems with Gypcrete

    Q: We are installing stretch in carpet in a multi level condo bldg. The contractor leveled the floor with gypcrete( the manufacturer escapes me). The…

  • Flooring

    Different Woods in Flooring

    Q: We bought an older home and once we removed carpeting and linoleum discovered that the wood flooring underneath is made up of different kinds of wood…