Tagged: Flooring

Bamboo Flooring: Is It The Right Choice?

Bamboo Flooring: Is It The Right Choice?

Bamboo Flooring: Is It The Right Choice? Bamboo flooring is amazing to look at. It has a very beautiful texture and adds quite a bit of style, beauty and quality to a home or business. It is quite a versatile element as well. Bamboo fibers can be made into virtually any type of material allowing for a wide range of styles, colors and methods of use for it. It can be used in businesses, homes and in virtually any environment. Bamboo is a relatively soft wood that you would not think to use in most hardwood flooring situations. But, like...

Benefits Of Laminate Wood Flooring

Benefits Of Laminate Wood Flooring

Benefits Of Laminate Wood Flooring Over the past few years laminate floors have really started to become popular, especially in homes with children. There are a number of reasons for this. One, laminate flooring is less expensive than traditional hardwood flooring. Two, it is very easy to clean and maintain. For couples with children, laminate flooring is generally a much better choice than hardwood. Most laminate flooring is tongue and groove, meaning there is no glue or nailing, each plank simply locks together. This makes installation a breeze and it also means it will be easier to remove the floor...

Various Types Of Flooring For Homes

Various Types Of Flooring For Homes

Various Types Of Flooring For Homes Floors are usually the part of the house that initially attracts the guests’ attention. When the guest steps his foot on your floor, he will most probably notice and check what kind of flooring you have. It’s as important as your wallpaper, ceiling and home decorations. Choosing the right flooring for your home may seem like an overwhelming decision to make. It requires careful planning as you would like to show your personality and style with a touch of practicality. With numbers of flooring available, it seems so hard to choose. You seem to...

Laminate Wood Flooring and the Benefits over Traditional Wood & Ceramic Tile

Laminate Wood Flooring and the Benefits over Traditional Wood & Ceramic Tile

Laminate Wood Flooring and the Benefits over Traditional Wood & Ceramic Tile Laminate wood flooring is a great option to typical hardwood floors and ceramic tile. One great characteristic about laminate flooring is that it is scratch resistant and more durable than real wood while providing a similar look to real wood. Due to the ease of installation, laminate wood flooring can be installed without the use of a contractor. This means that you save a pretty penny on installation fees since you can easily do it yourself. Laminate wood flooring comes in a variety of different colors and textures,...

Prefinished Hardwood Flooring – Many Different Color and Finish Selections

Prefinished Hardwood Flooring – Many Different Color and Finish Selections

Prefinished Hardwood Flooring – Many Different Color and Finish Selections Prefinished hardwood flooring has undergone many changes since hardwood flooring became the fashionable alternative for floors of a home. At one time, when you purchased hardwood, you bought the wood unfinished. This meant that when you installed it, you then had to stain the flooring and give it a protective coat and a shine. Today, you can still buy unfinished hardwood, but with the many types of prefinished wood, you can save yourself a lot of work by buying prefinished hardwood flooring. Each prefinished hardwood flooring manufacturer has various color...

Garage rubber flooring

Garage rubber flooring

Garage rubber flooring If you are considering remodeling you garage you might consider choosing a rubber flooring for your garage. This is an inexpensive option for general purpose flooring: most common uses include parking vehicles on the rubber flooring, converting the garage space into a play area or into a workout room. Parking your car on a recycled rubber matting is the least common use for this product because of two major inconveniences: recycled rubber tire products have very little resistance to petroleum products so an oil leak could seriously damage the floor; the melting point of this type of...

Wood Flooring And Home Improvement Loans

Wood Flooring And Home Improvement Loans

Wood Flooring And Home Improvement Loans Want to install a wood floor to improve the value of your home but don’t have the capital to make it happen? Consider using the equity in your home to get a home improvement loan. A home improvement loan is a nice way to get a tax deduction, install the wood floor of your dreams, and increase the value of your home all at once. You can use a home improvement loan for general improvements or for a specific project such as laying a wood floor. These loans are placed second in line on...

Is Laminate Flooring Your Choice?

Is Laminate Flooring Your Choice?

Is Laminate Flooring Your Choice? Laminate flooring is a material that is made to resemble wood flooring. This type of flooring has many advantages that other woods simply cannot provide you with. When you take a close look at it, you can not really tell that it isn’t a true hardwood either. This is one of the advantages. Let’s compare the two types to find out which is the right one for you. True hardwood flooring has many grain marks that are original and unique. Laminate flooring has many of the same markings and looks just like the real thing....

Choosing And Buying Inexpensive Laminated Flooring

Choosing And Buying Inexpensive Laminated Flooring

Choosing And Buying Inexpensive Laminated Flooring A laminate floor is a composite floor with either a chipboard or HDF core, bonded to a film of wood-effect veneer and covered with a laminated surface. Although it may look like wood veneer flooring, it’s not. Most laminate floors feature a photographic representation of wood grain and, unlike wood veneers, laminates cannot be sanded or refurbished once it starts to show wear. In terms of aesthetic appeal, it’s hard to beat laminates or wood-look overlay floors. They offer great value, plus they’re warm underfoot, flexible and have their good looks last a long...

Advantages Of Pre Engineered Wood Flooring

Advantages Of Pre Engineered Wood Flooring

Advantages Of Pre Engineered Wood Flooring For starters, engineered wood flooring tends to be stronger than regular solid hardwood flooring. It can also be installed over just about anything – concrete slab, existing wood floors, ceramic tile, etc. This certainly makes it attractive to someone looking to put in a wood floor with as little trouble as possible. New advances have made it possible to put real wood as the top layer of each engineered plank. This makes engineered flooring almost indistinguishable from traditional solid wood flooring. This also means less wood is required for each plank. And even better,...