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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Question About Bamboo Floor Problem
Q: I purchased bamboo flooring from ifloor and had an installer lay the floors down. Unfortunately, he left pretty large gaps between some of the sections…
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Flooring – I NEED HELP! – Follow Up Part 3
Time to finish up with the last of Jackie’s questions where we’ll discuss cork and a bit more about being eco-friendly with adhesives: Q…
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A quick visit with Santa and the Orlando crew
After a visit with Oakland Park I went on to Melbourne and then finished off in Orlando with a special surprise Santa bonus. The trips were very fun and…
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Flooring – I NEED HELP! – Follow Up Part 2
Let’s get back on board with Jackie and get to some of her questions concerning tile flooring and solutions to some of her dilemmas: Q: I am requesting…
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Saso Hardwood Flooring Continues to Shine
Ever since the first 2008 introductions started hitting our showrooms over the past couple months the response has been overwhelming the styles are…
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Flooring – I NEED HELP! – Follow Up Part 1
For this particular follow up I have pulled it apart into 3 posts because I discuss several topics in some length. So let’s begin with Jackie’s dilemma at…
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A reminder
Recently I was speaking with a customer who was asking about a bamboo that we carried for a competitor that was selling “the same thing” for 1.29 per…