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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

What Are Some Ways To Use Your Leftover Hardwood Flooring Scraps?

What Are Some Ways To Use Your Leftover 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

Which Accessories Does Your New Floor Need?

Which Accessories Does Your New Floor Need?

What Kind of Accessories Are Available For Flooring? The most common accessories that may be needed for a successful flooring project are trim and underlayment. These are two fairly broad categories; …

By MeredithJan 20th 2016

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

Care & Maintenance

What Are Some Quick And Easy Hardwood Maintenance Tips?

What Are Some Quick And Easy Hardwood Maintenance Tips?

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, is the pr …

By MeredithAug 13th 2018

How Can You Keep Your Floors Clean With Kids Around?

How Can You Keep Your Floors Clean With Kids Around?

(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.) It’s no secret …

By MeredithJun 16th 2016

How Do You Prepare Hardwood Floors For The Summer?

How Do You Prepare Hardwood Floors For The 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 season, bu …

By MeredithJun 3rd 2016

How Do You Prevent Winter From Damaging Your Floors?

How Do You Prevent Winter From Damaging Your Floors?

Let’s take a look at how you can keep snow and ice from damaging your homes through this winter season and into the spring melts. • Don’t Pile Snow Against Your Home. Sure, it& …

By MeredithDec 30th 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

Five Great Qualities Of Luxury Vinyl Tile

When it comes to flooring, luxury is frequently associated with exotic solid hardwoods, like ebony and mahogany, that set the bar for both beauty and expense. While there’s nothing wrong with so …

By MeredithMar 16th 2017

Six Important Dos and Don'ts Of Vinyl Flooring

Six Important Dos and Don'ts Of 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 too lon …

By MeredithNov 28th 2016

What is WPC Flooring?

What is WPC Flooring?

WPC Flooring - What Is It? WPC stands for Wood Plastic Composite, a hybrid material composed of wood or wood flour and plastic that highlights the best qualities of both materials. It’s a 100% p …

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 o …

By DavidFeb 27th 2014

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 se …

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

13 Do Nots of Hardwood Flooring

13 Do Nots of Hardwood Flooring

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By FTYH StaffMar 4th 2010

Laminate Floors

Four Fact-checks On Laminate Flooring

Four Fact-checks On Laminate Flooring

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 …

By MeredithJul 28th 2016

What are CARB 1 and CARB 2? Laminate Safety: What You Need To Know

What are CARB 1 and CARB 2? 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 …

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

Customer Q&As: Pets & Engineered Hardwood, Laminate in Older Homes, and Water In The Basement

Customer Q&As: Pets & Engineered Hardwood, Laminate in Older Homes, and Water In The Basement

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, and s …

By MeredithJan 10th 2017

In Style Flooring

How Do You Decorate Around Your New Hardwood Floor?

How Do You Decorate Around Your New Hardwood Floor?

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 o …

By MeredithApr 21st 2016

Does Wood Laminate Flooring Look Real?

Does Wood Laminate Flooring Look Real?

These days, it’s almost impossible to see the differences between real wood and laminate wood flooring. But the difference can be one of importance – price. Laminate wood flooring is signi …

By DavidJun 10th 2014

Environmental Issues

What Are Some Ways To Use Your Leftover Hardwood Flooring Scraps?

What Are Some Ways To Use Your Leftover 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 walls instantl …

By MeredithAug 16th 2019

What Is The Lacey Act? (Hardwood Flooring Information)

What Is The Lacey Act? (Hardwood Flooring 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 preservi …

By MeredithJun 30th 2016

Guest Posts

Bamboo Floors

5 Reasons to Consider Bamboo Flooring

5 Reasons to Consider Bamboo Flooring

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By FTYH StaffMar 9th 2010

Announcing

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's …

By DavidAug 29th 2012

About Us

What's The Difference Between Freight And Shipping?

What's The Difference Between Freight And Shipping?

So, What's Shipping? As a general term, shipping means everything! If you buy it online, it will be shipped to your home. From a logistical standpoint, though, shipping refers to the transport of smal …

By MeredithJan 16th 2019

Shipping & Pick Up

Shipping & Pick Up

Our goal at Floors To Your Home.com is to make purchasing a floor EASY & AFFORDABLE. That is the reason we offer NO-HASSEL SHIPPING on the products we sell. FREE SHIPPING …

By MeredithMar 9th 2010