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Floors for your Ceiling

Floors for your Ceiling

Customer Craig K. just sent us an email with a picture of a recent project. He has an unusual use of hardwood flooring: "We had hideous popcorn ceiling in our great room that was falling

5 Easy Ways To Use Your Hardwood Flooring Scraps

5 Easy Ways To Use Your Hardwood Flooring Scraps

Quick Answers: Can Vinyl Flooring Withstand Cold Temperatures?

Quick Answers: Can Vinyl Flooring Withstand Cold Temperatures?

What's The Difference Between Freight And Shipping?

What's The Difference Between Freight And Shipping?

A Quick Look At Unfinished Hardwood

A Quick Look At Unfinished Hardwood

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Care & Maintenance

Waterproof Floors

Hardwood Floors

Laminate Floors

Customer Questions

In Style Flooring

Environmental Issues

Tips

Does Your New Floor Need Accessories?

Does Your New Floor Need Accessories?

What a long, strange trip it’s been: you’ve done your research, decided on a material, set your heart on a color, and then, oh, and then…you bought It. Your perfect floor, from Floors To Your Home, …

By MeredithJan 20th 2016

Google's Star Wars and More Fun

Google's Star Wars and More Fun

This is an old post, but many of these still work. Stress relief! Enjoy, and sorry if any have gone away since we last checked. ________________________________________________ …

By DavidNov 27th 2015

Dishing on DIY

Dishing on DIY

I’d like to start this post with a dedication. That’s right, we’re going to join our metaphorical hands, enjoy some togetherness, and give a loud proud shout out to everyone who wades into the so …

By MeredithSep 30th 2015

How To Find Your Square Footage

How To Find Your Square Footage

Many questions arise when choosing a floor. There are the obvious questions, of course, like “what room is the floor going to go in?” and “how much am I looking to spend on this project?” Then th …

By MeredithDec 8th 2014

Loads Of Fun In The Laundry Room

Loads Of Fun In The Laundry Room

Today we’re going to talk about one of the most unheralded champions in any home, the laundry room. We ask a lot of our laundry rooms, don't we? Be dry. Be clean. Be visually appealing. Don't sme …

By MeredithNov 17th 2014

Beating The Time Crunch Blues

Beating The Time Crunch Blues

In today’s modern world, it’s easy to feel like there’s not enough time in the day. This common concern can often be assuaged with organizing, prioritizing, and just a pinch of luck, but life has a …

By MeredithOct 15th 2014

Videos Answer ''Do I need this Accessory or Trim for my Floor?''

Videos Answer ''Do I need this Accessory or Trim for my Floor?''

When you plan your flooring purchase there are a number of things you'll want to factor in, and some can be easy to miss. Floors To Your Home specializes in good discount flooring, and we tr …

By DavidJul 1st 2014

Care & Maintenance

Quick And Easy Hardwood Maintenance

Quick And Easy Hardwood Maintenance

Hardwood flooring is an enduring classic and with good reason. It’s beautiful, strong, and capable of a long lifespan in your home with the proper care and maintenance. What, you ask, …

By MeredithAug 13th 2018

5 Ways To Keep Your Floors Clean With Kids

5 Ways To Keep Your Floors Clean With Kids

(Recently my good friend over at Jorgenson Industrial suggested I write a blog post about floors and kids. The idea took root and…voila! Here we are.) There ar …

By MeredithJun 16th 2016

How To Prevent Hardwood Issues This Summer

How To Prevent Hardwood Issues This Summer

Ah, summer. Some of us flourish in the heat; some of us huddle up to the closest air conditioning and offer our thanks to the deities of modern convenience. We all have our needs during the seaso …

By MeredithJun 3rd 2016

Preventing Winter Home Damage

Preventing Winter Home Damage

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By MeredithDec 30th 2015

Easy Ways to Winterize Your Home

Easy Ways to Winterize Your Home

Ah, winter. Whether you love it or hate it, preparation is essential to ensure the most hassle-free season possible. Getting ready for winter doesn’t stop at checking your car’s …

By MeredithOct 27th 2015

Rebuilding After Flood Damage

“Expect the unexpected.” “Life is what happens when you’re making plans.” “Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.” Everyone knows an adage or two designed to ease the pain of getting kicked in t …

By MeredithDec 15th 2014

Waterproof Floors

What's So Great About Luxury Vinyl?

Show of hands here, friends…who doesn’t love a little bit of luxury in their lives? When it comes to flooring, luxury is frequently associated with exotic solid hardwoods (link) like ebony and mah …

By MeredithMar 16th 2017

Do or Don't: Vinyl Flooring

Do or Don't: Vinyl Flooring

DO: Sweep and vacuum regularly. A little bit of daily maintenance keeps things nice and clean, and prevents allergens like dust and pet dander from building up. DON’T: Let spills sit for to …

By MeredithNov 28th 2016

The 4 Ws of WPC

The 4 Ws of WPC

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By MeredithFeb 9th 2016

How Waterproof is Waterproof Flooring?

How Waterproof is Waterproof Flooring?

True, this really is not a common situation, and not what we're usually planning for when we talk waterproof flooring, but when we show a guy displacing gallons of H2O all ove …

By DavidFeb 27th 2014

Video - Waterproof Vinyl Tile Floors!

Video - Waterproof Vinyl Tile Floors!

Over a year ago we picked up our fist waterproof plank flooring, a click together product called Supreme Click Elite. It has been very popular, and almost (I actually think completely, but time …

By DavidDec 4th 2012

Tips and Video: Before, During and After Installing Vinyl Plank Floors

Tips and Video: Before, During and After Installing Vinyl Plank Floors

We are always developing our Flooring Learning Center at Floors To Your Home (.com), a place to find information, instruction and tips on flooring in general. In preparation for each page or …

By DavidJan 24th 2012

Hardwood Floors

Floors for your Ceiling

Floors for your Ceiling

Customer Craig K. just sent us an email with a picture of a recent project. He has an unusual use of hardwood flooring: "We had hideous popcorn ceiling in our great room that was falling …

Jan 17th 2024

What Is The Eastridge Finish Warranty?

What Is The Eastridge Finish Warranty?

Recently we've gotten some questions about our Eastridge hardwood flooring products. We've done our best to put them all together in one handy dandy blog post to tell you everything you need t …

By MeredithSep 8th 2017

The ABCs of Hardwood

The ABCs of Hardwood

A is for Acacia We’re starting off the ABCs of hardwood with a little bit of a cheat, because acacia isn’t a tree: it’s a shrub! This Australian shrub yields wood that’s renowned for its be …

By MeredithAug 7th 2015

Video - Solid vs. Engineered Hardwood

Video - Solid vs. Engineered Hardwood

What is the difference? Is engineered hardwood even real wood? Isn't it really just laminate flooring? Where can each of these types of hardwood be installed? Are they both installed the s …

By DavidDec 26th 2012

13 Do Nots of Hardwood Flooring

13 Do Nots of Hardwood Flooring

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By FTYH StaffMar 4th 2010

Laminate Floors

Laminate: True Or False?

Laminate: True Or False?

Laminate flooring is well-known in the interior design world. Of course, with fame comes misconception, so we’re here to clear up some of that pesky misinformation floating around and hopefully ans …

By MeredithJul 28th 2016

Laminate Safety: What You Need To Know

Laminate Safety: What You Need To Know

There’s been a lot of conversation over the past year about the safety of laminate flooring. 60 Minutes ran a feature in March 2015 calling into question the levels of formaldehyde present in a c …

By MeredithFeb 25th 2016

4 Kinds of Tools for Installing Laminate Flooring

4 Kinds of Tools for Installing Laminate Flooring

I was making Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies from scratch, my variant on the standard recipe where I used science to help me get the chewy part to work without having to underbake them. Now at this …

By DavidJul 10th 2015

Customer Questions

Questions From Our Comments Section

Questions From Our Comments Section

We love our blog readers! They ask us some great questions and bring a great community feeling. Of course, if one person asks a question, someone else has probably wondered about the same thing, an …

By MeredithJan 10th 2017

5 Times We Loved Reading The Comments

5 Times We Loved Reading The Comments

What’s the oft-repeated mantra of internet sanity? NEVER READ THE COMMENTS It's for your own good. Well, friends, unlike some well-known dens of iniquity on …

By MeredithNov 4th 2015

Answering Your Questions About Vinyl Warranties

Lately we’ve received multiple questions about installing vinyl flooring in some nonstandard locations. This is great for a couple of reasons: one, it shows our amazing readers thinking outside t …

By MeredithSep 15th 2015

Answering Your Questions About Vinyl

Answering Your Questions About Vinyl

Following a recent 60 Minutes report calling into question the business ethics and safety protocols practiced by Lumber Liquidators with regard to their laminate flooring, consumers across the …

By MeredithMay 5th 2015

Laminate Safety Questions

Laminate Safety Questions

I have vinyl, hardwood, bamboo, carpet, or ceramic tile in my house. Do I need to be worried about formaldehyde in my floors? The only products called into question on 60 Minutes were la …

By MeredithMar 4th 2015

Answering Your Safety Questions

Answering Your Safety Questions

Let’s face it: chemicals are everywhere. We, dear readers, are composed of…you guessed it…chemicals. Lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and many others keep …

By MeredithMar 2nd 2015

Waterproof Vinyl Plank Flooring: Customer Review and Information

Waterproof Vinyl Plank Flooring: Customer Review and Information

A customer of ours, Mary Monson-Ortega, contacted us through our Facebook page and was very generous to send us pictures of her finished floor, and to dialogue with us about the experience of ins …

By DavidJul 8th 2014

A Review: Why Easy Installation Matters (even if you hire installers!)

A Review: Why Easy Installation Matters (even if you hire installers!)

We have a little box on our website that invites reviews, comments, complaints, musings and/or favorite recipes. We get some positive feedback. Usually it's about our customer service or how ni …

By DavidJan 15th 2013

In Style Flooring

How To Define Your Decor With Hardwood

How To Define Your Decor With Hardwood

First of all, let us offer our sincerest congratulations on your new hardwood floor! Whether you chose solid or engineered, you’ve made a great investment in a quality material that never goes ou …

By MeredithApr 21st 2016

To Gloss Or Not To Gloss?

To Gloss Or Not To Gloss?

It’s natural to want to customize your living space. Your home should be a proud reflection of your personality, a bastion of comfort you can be proud of. It’s just as natural to want to safeguar …

By MeredithOct 20th 2014

Wood Laminate Flooring Looks So Real!

Wood Laminate Flooring Looks So Real!

Frank started this post 2 years ago, then our blog sort of... died! Now that it's alive again, I found this in the Pending Posts Archive, and thought Frank's last few entries should be given som …

By DavidJun 10th 2014

Creating a timeless look in your home

Creating a timeless look in your home

Neutral colored wall. Regular décor changes are not within the reach of most people so timeless styles are becoming very popular. Well-chosen furniture and features such as a lam …

By GuestOct 22nd 2013

Environmental Issues

5 Easy Ways To Use Your Hardwood Flooring Scraps

5 Easy Ways To Use Your Hardwood Flooring Scraps

Disposing of an old floor doesn't have to mean throwing away the wood. Here are some amazing ways to reuse the material and give it new life in the process. Design An Accent Wall Accent wa …

By MeredithAug 16th 2019

Lacey Act Information

Lacey Act Information

Here at Floors To Your Home, we believe in openness and honesty about who we are, what we do, and what we sell. As global citizens, it’s our responsibility to take an active interest in prese …

By MeredithJun 30th 2016

Green Cleaning For Floors

Green Cleaning For Floors

There’s never been a more critical time to be environmentally conscious. With a skyrocketing global population, rising temperatures, and increased pollution, every small step towards reversing ou …

By MeredithApr 21st 2015

Guest Posts

Guest Post – Quick DIY Home Repairs for the Holiday Season

Guest Post – Quick DIY Home Repairs for the Holiday Season

The kitchen is one of the most frequented places during the holiday season, so get that vinyl looking good again! To begin with -- Fixing your vinyl floor can be done in a few easy step …

By GuestFeb 3rd 2013

Guest Post – Laminate Flooring Benefits for an Ever Changing Guest Bedroom

Guest Post – Laminate Flooring Benefits for an Ever Changing Guest Bedroom

Laminate is considered one of the most practical and attractive alternatives to carpet, mainly because of its many advantages. When a guest walks into the room they will be staying in, the …

By GuestDec 11th 2012

Guest Post - Risks of Contacting Hazardous Materials During Home Renovations

Guest Post - Risks of Contacting Hazardous Materials During Home Renovations

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By GuestNov 28th 2012

Bamboo Floors

5 Reasons to Consider Bamboo Flooring

5 Reasons to Consider Bamboo Flooring

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By FTYH StaffMar 9th 2010

Announcing

Favorite Floor Favorite Pet Contest!

Favorite Floor Favorite Pet Contest!

We love customer photos, and we love customer photos with pets so much we're hosting a contest to celebrate! Send us your best shot of your pet on your FTYH floors and you could win a $100 Amazon …

By MeredithAug 21st 2017

Luxury Sheet Vinyl: New For July 2015!

Luxury Sheet Vinyl: New For July 2015!

What’s new at Floors To Your Home? Well, friends, it’s sheet vinyl! I know, I know. Sheet vinyl has gotten something of a bad rap over the years, but this isn’t the spongy, yielding materia …

By MeredithJul 7th 2015

Is The Price Right? YES!

Is The Price Right? YES!

Everyone likes a good bargain. There’s no feeling quite like scoring a good deal on a great product. After all, a dollar doesn’t go as far as it used to…or does it? One of our most frequently as …

By MeredithNov 10th 2014

Our "Win a Free Vinyl Floor!" Facebook Contest Ends This Weekend

Our "Win a Free Vinyl Floor!" Facebook Contest Ends This Weekend

Look, Ma, Arrows! [/caption] Our Free Vinyl Floor Contest continues through midnight this Sunday. It's easy to enter, so don't miss it! Just go to the link in the previous sentence. …

By DavidSep 5th 2012

Floors To Your Home Facebook Contest: Win a Free Vinyl Floor!

Floors To Your Home Facebook Contest: Win a Free Vinyl Floor!

You can win a vinyl floor for a room up to 12' x 12', a $500 value, on our Facebook page. It's pretty easy - you "like" us, and enter your information so we can find you if you win, and that' …

By DavidAug 29th 2012

About Us

What's The Difference Between Freight And Shipping?

What's The Difference Between Freight And Shipping?

Shipping, shipping, shipping! Everyone who shops online (so, everyone, basically) is familiar with the scramble to check shipping costs, look up the minimum purchase requirements, and get the mos …

By MeredithJan 16th 2019

Getting The Most Value For Your Money

Making a large purchase can be a daunting prospect, especially when that big purchase is intended to last for many years. Flooring is no exception. It’s 100% understandable to want to get the bes …

By MeredithMar 25th 2015

Proud To Give Back

Anne Frank wrote, “no one has ever become poor by giving.” At Floors To Your Home, we believe in the power of giving back. We’re proud to be a Leading Sponsor of the Indiana Campus Superstar Compet …

By MeredithMar 17th 2015

Shipping & Pick Up

Shipping & Pick Up

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By MeredithMar 9th 2010