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Marble Tile over a Slate Slab
Q: Can I lay marble tile on a slate slab that is fairly flat? Rick A: You can install marble tile over a slate slab, but you will need to use an…
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Cleaning Pergo® Floors
Q: How do I bring the Pergo flooring back to a shine. My wife took care of them and she passed away 5 years ago. The cleaning lady mops them, but is there…
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Installing Hardwood Stairs
Q: I want to remove the carpet on my stairs and install hardwood planks. Is there a way to install them without leaving nail indentations on the planks. I…
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Bruce Kennedale Strip Cracking Issue
Q: We had over 2300 square feet of hardwood installed by our builder in December of 2003. We have been fighting with our builder since then due to…
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Laminate Floors with Pets and Kids
Q: We are looking at putting hardwood floor / laminate in our home. Just wondered what you would recommend for a high traffic area, plus we have 2 kids…
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Glue Down Installation and Felt Paper
Q: Gluing wide boards makes sense, but is it effective if you have a layer of felt between the sub-floor and finished floor? Jason S. A: When gluing a…
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Laminate Floor Acclimation
Q: Does the padding for floating floor have to lay on floor for 48 hrs before u can lay the laminate floors? Margie A: For floating floors there is no…
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Carpet, Tile and Hardwood Floors
Q: My husband and I cannot settle on flooring for our house. currently there is about 4×4 tile in the entry way and it continues with carpet the rest of…
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I’m hitting the friendly skies
Off in a couple hours to fly to see some of our key suppliers in Europe. I will try to keep the blog rolling if I can from the road. Laminate flooring…
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Pets and Floors Extra
This morning I received an email from one of our great store managers over in Charlotte, Nathan, and I thought it would be great to share his experience…
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Pianos on Laminate Floors
Q: I’m a professional builder. I’ve installed a number of laminate floors for clients. 5 (?) years ago I used Wilsonart’s Classic line in a couple of…
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Flooring, Racing – Fast Cars!
One of our guys noticed a photo in my office the other day with a very fast car on it as well as an iFLOOR logo. I thought it would be interesting to…
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Pets with Laminate or Vinyl Floors
Q: Thanks for all the informative articles on laminate flooring. I still have one question before purchasing. Perhaps you can help. I want to put new…
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Buy a Floor – Get a Cruise*
I am excited about the sale next week for 3 days (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). It is a great reincarnation based on the overwhelming success of a…
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Flooring Expert – hardwood, laminate, cork and bamboo
I am impressed with our team internally that are working on the Flooring Expert Blog. Bentley (cool name) is doing some great work “porting” over some of…
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How to Clean Laminate Floors
Q: We recently installed a Tap-N-Loc floor and love it! How is it cared for? May I use a damp mop on it. Is there any special care for it? Thanks. Diane…
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Flooring in Dalton – High Quality is not an accident.
Here is another view of my day in Dalton that I spent at the lab. Lots of cool things about how products are tested and validated for quality. Take a peek…
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Flaking/Bubbling Finish
Q: My wife and I just bought an apartment in March. The poly on the wood floor is bubbling, peeling and flaking off. The builder says he’ll only pay for…
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12mm Handscraped Laminate – Yeah Baby!
Too often I think as an industry we find ourselves rushing to develop new product and get them to market quick. Sometimes that is not the right approach…