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    Popping Noise from Tile

    Q: I just had a new porcelain tile floor put down on top of a concrete subfloor. Since then I seem to have been a few popping noises in the house at…

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    DEAL O THE DAY

    I noticed that iFLOOR is offering a handscraped laminate for only $2.49 this morning. That is a great break through price and something I am certain won’t…

  • Laminate Near a Fireplace

    Q: I want to install laminate in my family room. I do have a fireplace that has brick in front of it about 2 ft. Sometimes the fire place does project…

  • Hollow Spots in a Bellefloor Maple Floor

    Q: I just got 1100 sf of Bellefloor hard maple installed over concrete sub-floor. I had the installer put MVP sealer just to be on safe side. After the…

  • Fading Brazilian Cherry Flooring

    Q: I have a less than two year old Brazilian Cherry hardwood floor throughout most of our home. We had placed little area rugs on the floor in front of…

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    SlickDeals.com

    It is always fun to have a big and vibrant web community notice your company. SlickDeals.com is one of the best known and active communities for consumers…

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    Smell from Konecto Presitge Flooring

    Q: Two weeks ago we installed Konecto Prestige flooring. We’ve had our windows and doors open daily all that time due to the warm weather we’ve had…

  • How Long to Wait Before Putting Furniture Back on to a Bamboo Floating Floor?

    Q: We are planning on installing a bamboo floating floor throughout our first floor (on-grade slab). How long should we wait to allow the…

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    Underlayment for floating floors

    Some topics are so important that they deserve repetition and additional information. Today’s topic is underlayment for floating floors. A floating floor…

  • Chip in Laminate Floor

    Q: I unfortunately have a chip in my Shaw Natural Sensations Classic Maple floor laminate floor in my living room, it is a surface chip (not deep set) and…

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    KUDOs Corner

    Absolutely a true CHAMPION. Great work Angela!!! Tempe, AZ is on the map! KUDOS! ________________________________________ From: Elizabeth H Sent: Friday…

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    36 months same as cash?

    Well I have officially lost my mind. When marketing said they wanted to offer a long term financing program to help our customers invest in making their…

  • 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…