1) Red Oak is not the only choice
If you want your home to look like everyone else’s, this is a great choice. If you want your home to be unique try hickory, cherry, walnut, white oak, maple or many others. Go to flooring retailers or search the Internet and see what is available. If you […]
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Ten Things You May Not Know About Selecting Hardwood Flooring
November 11th, 2007 · No Comments
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Lumber Liquidators: A Hardwood Flooring Giant
November 9th, 2007 · No Comments
Lumber Liquidators is the largest direct retailer in the United States, specializing in hardwood flooring (as ranked by Floor Focus Magazine in their November 2003 issue). We have one of the largest inventories of pre-finished and unfinished hardwood flooring in the industry. From Birdseye maple to Bolivian rosewood to 99-cent oak! We have a great […]
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Top Five Reasons To Use Bamboo Flooring
November 9th, 2007 · No Comments
Bamboo is a unique alternative as a flooring option. Both beautiful and durable, bamboo floors can add beauty to any area of your home and can withstand the wear and tear of daily life.
Here are my top five reasons to choose bamboo flooring for your home:
1. Aesthetic Beauty
Contrary to popular belief, bamboo is actually a […]
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Bamboo Flooring: Is It The Right Choice?
November 9th, 2007 · No Comments
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 […]
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How To Install Bamboo Flooring
November 9th, 2007 · No Comments
Not just food for pandas or the stuff of cheap picnic mats, bamboo is now being processed with modern techniques into beautiful “hardwood” flooring that beats standard wood floors in durability, hardness, and dimensional stability.
An added bonus to these beautiful floors is the knowledge that bamboo, unlike wood, grows quickly and abundantly, reaching maturity in […]
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Solid Strip Bamboo Floor Installation
November 8th, 2007 · No Comments
PREPARATION
Prefinished solid strip flooring is best applied by nailing, stapling, or gluing planks to a wood subfloor. Gluing directly to a concrete slab may be done at or above grade. Do not install below grade. Flooring may also be applied over radiant floor heating systems. Flooring should be allowed to acclimate on the job site […]
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An Introduction To Bamboo Flooring
November 7th, 2007 · No Comments
A little known fact: bamboo is technically not a tree at all, but a grass that includes over 1,000 species. Even without planting, bamboo naturally grows back, and it reaches maturity in only four to five years. These qualities make bamboo an excellent, forest-friendly source of wood for flooring.
Bamboo flooring may be new to North […]
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