Flooring 101

No other flooring product can enhance your home’s overall appearance more than new carpeting. It adds warmth and comfort, while also adding a style that you can make all your own.

New carpeting can be one of the best investments you can make in beautifying your home’s interior. Carpet can be both casual and formal. There are countless color, style, and texture choices for carpet.

Maintenance can be easy with your new carpeting. Remove loose soil with daily vacuuming. Stain resistant carpet will greatly improve the ability to remove most common household spills and stains.

To retain the carpet’s luster and beauty, deep clean your carpet every year. While carpet is easy to maintain, it is a good idea to occasionally relocate furniture in heavy traffic areas.

Carpet is relatively inexpensive, as well as easy to install and replace. Its underfoot comfort provides a warmer, softer, and quieter texture which appeals to many. It can hide any sub-floor irregularities, can go over a variety of substrates, and can meet any style needs.

Carpet can provide the consumer with many options to meet every style and décor through a wide variety of colors, hues, and tones. You’re sure to find the one that is perfect for your family.

Laminate flooring is manufactured to imitate genuine hardwood, ceramic tile, or natural stone among other types of flooring. It is actually made up of multiple layers—a backing layer, a core layer, a high-quality photo of the design to be featured, and a high-gloss top layer that helps the plank resist scratching and damage.

Laminate flooring is a great choice for many homeowners and business owners. It is well-suited for individuals who want the look and feel of real hardwood or stone without the associated cost and maintenance.

It also functions well in any space. You can choose from a variety of colors and wood grains to complement any look. While versatile and stylish, laminate flooring is also stain-resistant due to its tough top layer. It doesn’t need to be varnished or waxed, and it won’t fade in direct sunlight.

Tile flooring is one of today’s most versatile flooring options. From porches to bathrooms, tile flooring can work in any room. Tile flooring is durable and stands up well to regular wear and tear. Tile is durable with easy maintenance and comes in uncountable styles to suit your personality and home demands. Tile is offered in a variety of colors, sizes, and shapes. Combine that with different patterns and tiles can be laid out in a completely custom and unique look.

Whatever look you are tying to achieve, tile can achieve it. With so many styles and colors, you are sure to find the perfect tile for your home. Modern porcelain tiles can very convincingly mimic all sorts of traditional flooring materials such as marble, granite, wood, and even steel and bamboo. Tile is one of the toughest flooring options available. Hard and dense, tile is resistant to most stresses and stains.

Ceramic and porcelain tile floors are incredible durable and extremely easy to clean. Daily sweeping or dry mopping can keep your floor debris free, while a damp moping each week will decrease wear and abrasion from grit and soil. Tile flooring is a great way to add style to your home, while also adding functionality and ease of maintenance. It’s simply one of the best flooring options for your home.

Natural stone is known for its exotic visual appeal. It is loved for its natural variations that give it unique character and elegance as well as a stylish presence in any room. It has been a popular flooring solution for centuries, utilized in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, China, and beyond. Imagine using this same lasting, timeless solution in your own home! While natural stone is still more expensive when compared to ceramic or porcelain tile, natural stone is guaranteed to increase a home’s resale value.

While visually appealing, natural stone is also incredibly functional. Depending on the type you choose, it can be porous or completely water-resistant; it can even be stain-resistant. Regardless of which you decide to install in your home, you’ll enjoy its lasting durability and reliability. While natural stone has been used in flooring since ancient times, innovative advances in technology and equipment have completely changed the way it is manufactured and installed. It’s much more efficient to install natural stone now, making the entire process more affordable and less time-consuming. Better yet, there is a larger selection of natural stone—from exotic looks to more neutral, earthy looks—available for use in homes and in businesses.

Vinyl floors are often used in kitchens and baths because of their good looks, resistance to moisture and wide variety of colors and textures.

These floors are relatively easy to keep clean. Their main enemy is grit or sand that can be ground into the surface. (Don’t worry, we’ll tell you how to maintain them in the Maintenance section.)

No matter which vinyl floor you choose, you will find stylish options, high performance and you can completely customize your floor by mixing contrasting colors, patchwork style, creating medallions or curved cuts that express your unique vision and personality. Let your imagination run free!

Now, some resilient floors are vinyl but not all vinyl floors are resilient. However, the most common type of resilient flooring is vinyl. There are two types of vinyl flooring: sheet vinyl and luxury vinyl tile (LVT). LVT has all the advantages of vinyl, is available in a wide array of colors and can look good anywhere.

No other floor covering category offers you the selection, styling, ease of maintenance and value as a vinyl floor! Thanks to some great advances in styling and technology, vinyl floors have been changed forever. Vinyl flooring can now realistically mimic the look and textures of real ceramic, stone and wood grain patterns. These amazing replicas have such incredible realism it is difficult for most people to tell whether it's the real thing or not. Who needs to know, right? Finally, a note about linoleum, which is not a resilient flooring but the one you probably recall as the original kitchen and bath flooring. While linoleum is enjoying somewhat of a renaissance, the most popular floor covering material in this category is vinyl.

Luxury vinyl flooring is a very popular choice for today’s consumer. There are two kinds of luxury vinyl flooring: luxury vinyl plank (LVP) and luxury vinyl tile (LVT). As the names imply, LVP look like planks of hardwood flooring, while LVT looks like tile or natural stone. They are individual pieces of vinyl, so they mimic the real thing, but with a much more manageable price tag.

Luxury vinyl flooring is highly resistant to water, mildew, and stains. This product is extremely durable and very easy to clean. Remove dirt daily with a dust mop and for weekly cleanings, all you need is a little warm water, dish soap, and a mop.

It can be installed almost anywhere in your home. Luxury vinyl flooring is durable and can stand up to even the busiest family’s lifestyle. Luxury vinyl comes in a variety of styles and colors. An advantage to luxury vinyl flooring is the ability to install modular patterns. Different tiles and planks can be combined. Luxury vinyl floors are a durable, affordable, and attractive alternative to other flooring options.