Tag: New Jersey

  • Natural Bamboo Flooring – Eco Friendly – Comfort – Quality – Beautiful

    [adsenseyu3] Bamboo is a grass actually, not wood. Because bamboo doesn’t get any bigger after 4-6 years, wood will be bigger and bigger when years going. Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants in the world, after 6 years, it has to be harvested or died by itself. Then new bamboo will come out.…

  • Unique Homes Blog » Mohawk Industries Decorates For The Cure

    [adsenseyu3] There’s no way to cushion the facts about breast cancer: About 200,000 women and 2,000 men in the U.S. will be diagnosed with the disease this year, and about 40,000 will die from it. With these and other troubling statistics about this invasive illness in mind, two of Mohawk Industries’ premier flooring companies—Mohawk and…

  • Hot Or Not? Ceramic Tile Floating Floors | Toolmonger

    Hot Or Not? Ceramic Tile Floating Floors | Toolmonger

    [adsenseyu1] Floating floors have come a long way from the crappy picture of wood pasted to a pressboard substrate; now you can even install floating ceramic tile floors. Besides actually being real ceramic or porcelain tile, the floors promise to be much easier and less messy to install. Two such floating floor systems are Cerama-lock…

  • Installing Glass Tile-Bostik Flooring Blog

    Installing Glass Tile-Bostik Flooring Blog

    Glass tile installations have become very popular and are a growing market share. Glass tiles are ecologically sound (many glass tile are made from recycled glass) and offer a wide range of colors. The key to achieving a good installation is substrate preparation. Substrate preparation is the #1 factor that accounts for the success or…

  • Is Installing a Hardwood Floor Really That Easy? – The Floor Board Blog The Floor Board Blog

    Is Installing a Hardwood Floor Really That Easy? – The Floor Board Blog The Floor Board Blog

    The answer is “yes” if the hardwood floor is a Bruce Lock & Fold hardwood floor. There are several key factors that separate the Bruce Lock & Fold hardwood installation method from others. The ease of installation, fewer costs associated with the installation, and a stunning visual are all reasons why this may be the…

  • Shaw Develops New Scuff Resistant Wood Finish

    Shaw has rolled out a new high performance hardwood finish that is initially being used on its Epic engineered products. Branded ScufResist Platinum, Shaw said the finish increases the product’s durability while keeping aesthetics intact and resists scuffs up to six times better than the competition. According to Anderson President and CEO Don Finkell, the…

  • Mohawk Rolls Out Strand Bamboo | from the floors up

    Mohawk Rolls Out Strand Bamboo | from the floors up

    Bamboo has generated plenty of interest in flooring because of its green attributes, but traditional bamboo floors have shortcomings. Because it’s a grass, not a wood, traditional bamboo is relatively soft. Mohawk has addressed this problem with new bamboo flooring that’s harder than oak—and uses 100% of the bamboo stalk. Mohawk’s strand woven styles have…

  • Shaw Floors Chosen by House Beautiful: Kitchen of the Year | from the floors up

    [adsenseyu3] Shaw Floors has been chosen by House Beautiful magazine for its fourth annual “Kitchen of the Year.” As the flooring sponsor, the kitchen will feature Shaw’s Grand Canyon, a hardwood style made from 100% post-industrial wood byproducts. The design reflects Tyler Florence’s vision of the kitchen as “the new American living room,” incorporating his…

  • Wood Flooring Care

    Wood Flooring Care

    No one wants flooring that is dull, scratched, stained, mottled, scarred, pitted and ruined. But these are common problems. How can they be avoided? Follow the simple rules here to steer clear of most of the things that damage flooring. On the positive side, always clean floors according to the manufacturer’s instructions. They know how…

  • The Carpet And Rug Institute Blog

    The Carpet And Rug Institute Blog

    Carpet and Rug Institute members help spread the word about carpet and allergies: Shaw Industries Hats off to CRI member manufacturer Shaw Industries for helping to promote the good news about carpet, specifically, that people who suffer from allergies do not have to remove their carpets. In fact, some studies show that carpeted rooms may…