Day: October 10, 2020

House Improvements

Laminate Floor

Laura

A laminate floor offers more options than any other type of flooring. It’s often seen as the best choice for flooring needs, regardless of price, mainly because of its superior selection and the ease of installing laminate flooring. You can be sure that laminate floor will give you the look you want for your home, and probably at a considerably lower cost than what it emulates. With options like walnut, cherry, beech, maple, merbau, and oak laminate flooring, there’s sure to be something you’ll want. Laminate wood floors are a lot more durable than the so called real thing, and are very easy to clean as laminate floor cleaner can be found nearly anywhere and is not terribly expensive.
Introduced to the US market around ten years ago, laminate floor is still fairly new to us. Even so, it has already become one of the most popular types of floor in the US today. Durability, low prices, and ease of installation are among the reasons that laminate floors are so popular. Homeowners throughout the country have purchased billions of square feet of laminate, and even more has been sold worldwide. Wood laminate floor is often placed in new homes in many new subdivisions, but it can also be used as a replacement floor in older homes to modernize their interiors.
Flooring manufacturers have picked up on the wood laminate floor trend quite quickly, and are already producing laminated planks and tiles in a dizzying array of textures, styles, and colors. Installation formats also vary, including click lock, glue down, and floating, just to name a few. With there being so many options as far as installation formats, pretty much anyone can install their own laminate floor, should they so choose.
The companies Armstrong and Pergo have become household names through their laminate floors. Lots of other manufacturers are also making names for themselves by bringing to market surprisingly high quality discount laminate flooring and finishes that would delight any customer.
Armstrong likes to tout their SwiftLock laminate flooring which, like Quick Step laminate flooring, is marketed on ease of installation. Both companies seem to be betting on lots of people peforming their own laminate floor installation. Pergo is quite proud of their walnut laminate flooring, though their maple laminate flooring is also quite popular.
Because of the myriad of choices available to them, buyers often become confused when trying to pick the correct laminate floor for their needs. AC Ratings and various groove and tongue systems make decisions even harder. As laminate floors have not been around for all that long, the options will surely expand and become even more confusing as time goes by. No matter how complicated it gets, though, there will always be someone willing to attempt their own laminate flooring installation.
Wood laminate flooring is available both from the Internet and from your local hardware store. It would be wise to check around so you can see just how affordable it can be, and the hardware …

Kitchen Renovation

Kitchen Hardwood Flooring – Is It a Really a Great Idea to Have Hardwood Flooring in Your Kitchen?

Laura

It is common to have hardwood flooring in most rooms but not in kitchen because of regular wetting on the floor that can possibly affect the durability of the wood material. Most homeowners like this particular type of flooring because it provides warm and pleasant feel that can create additional value to their houses. It seems that bad things would happen to the floor if you insist to install such flooring in your kitchen – for instance, unnecessary cracks and warps on the floor due to the overly exposure to the water.
Should you abandon the idea of having a wooden floor in your kitchen or go ahead with the idea of installing it and neglect the unwanted consequences when it is exposed to water?
The ideal answer is – you can actually install hardwood flooring in your kitchen but you need to take note of few things below:
1. Choose such flooring with polyurethane finish – Be sure that you choose flooring which contains polyurethane finish, which has water resistant properties and it provides long-lasting effect. In addition, such flooring requires little waxing – perhaps 1-2 times per year. Therefore, do not choose unfinished flooring as unexpected wetting of kitchen floor can affect the lifespan of the flooring materials over a long period of time.
2. Choose the right hardwood material – Kitchen is a place where inhabitants would regularly visit especially when someone wants to prepare meal, washing dishes and other daily activities that you can do in the kitchen. Therefore, you need to choose certain species of wood floors such as ash, maple or oak which is more durable than cheery, fir and pine wood floors.
3. Fix any possible holes, dings and dents on the floor – Whenever you have found any holes, dings and dents on it, you need to mend the deformities of the floor before the condition gets worse when it is exposed to high amount of water. It is wisely that you contact a flooring repair service to deal with this issue.
4. Choose engineered hardwood flooring – It is basically made of sandwich of several laminations of wood which includes both finish wood (on the surface) and unfinished plywood (underneath. Furthermore, it is capable to tolerate high moisture conditions which are suitable to be installed in kitchen and bathroom. Apart from that, it can be sanded in order to remove unwanted ding and dents, and scratches on it but it can only be done 1-2 times.
5. Ask help from flooring experts – Before you start installing it in your kitchen, you need to seek professional advice from flooring experts so that you can have a perfect flooring kitchen without worrying about the unwanted effects that could possibly spoil the whole flooring materials.
Hope that you would be able to have your own favorite hardwood flooring in your kitchen by considering these few things mentioned earlier. It is a better option than tile flooring, which is much harder to maintain on …