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Buyer’s Guide for Flooring in Houston, TX

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Laminate flooring is made to imitate wood flooring using highly detailed photographic images that are covered with a durable plastic laminate. Laminate flooring is normally less costly than wood flooring and is relatively simple to install, however there are a couple of elements to think about before buying.

Laminate flooring questions are asked by people who are interested in home improvement tasks, who are constructing a home and who are simply interested in discovering about this flooring choice. If you fall into any of those groups, the following questions and answers should help you to understand exactly what laminate flooring is and how it can be utilized, if you are interested in laminate flooring.

What is laminate flooring?

Response: Laminate flooring is a composite flooring product that is comprised of numerous layers. Each layer serves a particular purpose. There are layers for sound muffling, shock absorption, dampness security and decoration.

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Houston Flooring and How To Choose Correctly

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Great Floor Tile Ideas For The Home

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While floor tile is mostly used for decoration purposes, it is also perfect for shielding floors from dirt, moisture, and the like. Because of this dual purpose, the quality of the tiles matters.

Unfortunately, it is a typical scenario in older homes to find broken, split, and/or scratched tiles. These make the floor unsightly and unsafe. They can cause slips, injuries on the feet and other problems; therefore, they need to be replaced right away. The first thing you ought to do is remove the broken ones and look for replacements with the same floor tile patterns. Choosing a completely different tile can wreck the total design. Perhaps, the base of your room has been significantly harmed and a massive repair is required. Right here are some ideas which can guide you in picking the best set of tiles meant for every part of your home.

Have you ever experienced damaged flooring in your home? Because of this, most residents resort to the use of wooden flooring. It can be easier to replace and as durable as tile.Continue reading→

Discount Hardwood Flooring and Carpets – Top Houston Reviews

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Prior to getting carpet anywhere in Houston, decide exactly what kind of carpet you want, such as wall-to-wall carpet or location carpets. We even suggest that you buy carpet runners for stairs. The video below offers assistance from a home repair expert on house building and remodeling, including carpeting.

The Best Way to Measure for Buying Carpeting

If you’re ready to get new carpeting, you probably want some idea of just how much carpet you need to order. Carpet supply stores have professionals who will do the measuring and computations for you, but you can do some measuring yourself to obtain an approximation of how much you require. You can also use your measurements to estimate how much the carpeting will cost.Continue reading→

Engineered Flooring Houston: Easier Hardwood?

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Wood Flooring in HoustonNone can reject the appeal of a hardwood floor. Those looking for that classic appearance and feel might do well to consider engineered hardwood flooring.

Engineered Hardwood
Unlike conventional hardwood, which comes straight from a tree and into your house, crafted or engineered hardwood is a more intricate item that includes numerous layers. The outermost is a hardwood veneer, a thin slice of wood (less than 1/8″). The inner layers are made from plywood, high density fiberboard, or hardwood. The core layers make the product more steady than routine hardwood, while the outer veneer surface displays beauty and authenticity. Engineered hardwood is similar to natural hardwood due to the fact that the surface is made of real wood. While laminate has a core of high density fiberboard, its surface is basically a picture of wood (or any other material, for that matter). Laminate is less expensive than crafted and strong hardwood, however does have some beautiful patterns available.

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Engineered hardwood flooring is made to decrease the moisture problems linked with standard hardwood. Engineered flooring will not deform or become puffy, making it extremely easy to maintain. Because engineered hardwood flooring needs just a thin piece of the preferred wood, the expense decreases significantly.Continue reading→

Houston Homes and Flooring Discounts – June 18, 2013

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Houston’s Most Technologically Advanced Charity Playhouse Yet

HOUSTON BUILDERS Westin Homes seems to be expanding into the luxury replica spaceship playhouse market — at least this summer, anyway, hooking up with HomeAid Houston to imagineer something like what you see here and display it this June and July atMinute Maid Park. (That’s Astros mascot Orbit peeking out, as though a tad reluctant to deboard.) Of course, the playhouse isn’t just for show: It’ll be raffled off, with proceeds going to HomeAid, and it’ll eventually find its way to someone’s backyard, where the lucky winners will enjoy its

. . . space-themed amenities such as a cockpit complete with swivel seats, ‘rocket booster’-framed windows, a 32” wall mounted LCD TV, an XBox, an MP3 player, an iPod docking station with speakers and interior detailing . . .air conditioning and electricity.

It doesn’t appear that the playhouse will be suitable for actual space travel — but there’s always next year. (As Astros fans well know.) Most recently, the nonprofit HomeAid started construction on those 8 single-mothers’ duplexes on W. Bellfort in Meyerland on St. John’s Presbyterian property.Continue reading→

Comparing Houston Hardwood Flooring and Carpet – June 17, 2013 Discounts

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Benefits of Hardwood Flooring Vs Carpet Flooring

Every Houston homeowner either constructing or remodeling will deal with the issue soon – install hardwood floors or carpet? It can be a difficult decision, just like selecting what color paint to paint the outside of your home and exactly what color walls to splash on the interior. While paint is primarily about visual appeal, hardwood flooring vs carpet flooring is all about features and longevity.

One of the most distinguishing aspects between hardwood floors and carpet floors is resilience. If you have pets or children, there’s no navigating it – you will have to replace carpet. Children spill food and drinks, while dogs and cats have their own plan, without any regard to your “financial investment.”.

Houston hardwood floors, on the other hand, are highly resilient and do not need to be changed. Just mop the spill up and you’re good to go. Should something impact your floor structurally, it can typically be rubbed or sanded down.

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Ways to Measure & Purchase Laminate Wood Flooring in Houston

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laminate-flooring-houstonLaminate flooring is popular all over the US and particularly Houston. It is a kind of flooring that can mimic wood, stone, tile and other materials. The surface of the flooring is a photo image of the product it is imitating. The flooring is in fact made from long lasting laminate plastic. Laminate flooring is substantially less costly than buying genuine hardwood, tile or stone flooring. Deciding on and purchasing the flooring is the first step in installing your new floors.

  • Measure the length and width of the space.
  • Multiply these 2 numbers together to get the square footage. Add at least 10 percent to this number to count for waste. Repeat Steps 1 and 2 for each room.
  • Combine all the square footage plus 10 percent for each space.
  • Divide the overall square feet by the number of square feet in each box of flooring. Depending on where you purchase your flooring from, this number will differ.
  • Use just the square footage number, not including the 10 percent, to determine the amount of padding you will need.
  • Measure the width of doorways or any locations where you will need shift pieces. Relying on where you purchase your flooring from, you will know the number of pieces to order. Bear in mind these pieces can be cut to fit.
  • Measure the boundary of each room to understand the number of skirting boards or beading you will have to explore the outside of each space to fill the gap between the flooring and the walls. Add 10 percent to this number to count for waste.

Determine where you would buy such flooring. Research rates online and in home improvement stores. Sale flooring stores are also a choice. Continue reading→

How to Remove Carpet & Refinish Hardwood Floors

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discount-hardwood-floors-houston-txYou might discover a great wood floor underneath an old carpet you want to replace. While the floor could be in great shape structurally, possibilities are the finish will be dingy and dull from years under the carpet, especially after you’re done scraping off the residual carpet underlayment. Getting rid of the initial layers, then applying gloss, will bring back the luster to that floor without changing its color or character.

Remove the discount carpet by hand, or using your hammer and prybar as needed. Pry off the carpet strips around the perimeter of the room and pull out any errant nail heads up. Use a floor scrape to get up residual carpet underlayment.

According to This Old House online, a screening disk is clog-resistant sandpaper that will just remove the finish of the floor, without cutting into the wood itself. It will take off any remaining recurring material from the carpets and grind away the top layer of floor gloss.

Vacuum up the dust. Switch out the heavy-grit disk for a medium one and duplicate the sanding procedure. The 2nd screening should take up the remainder of the top layer.

Vacuum the dust once again, and re-screen the floor with the fine-grit disk. It must get the surface completely free of shine and gloss, with the original color of the floor still in place.

Brush on polyurethane floor gloss starting at the edge of the room opposite the doorway. Brush it on with the direction of the floorboards, blowing and wiping away any residual dust ahead of the brush. Do the entire floor.Continue reading→

Creative Flooring Ideas – Houston Discounts June 2013

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Eight Examples of Amazingly Creative Flooring

Getting creative with your flooring can be fairly easy. You just have to use your imagination to achieve the effect and look that you desire for your floors.

As a start, it’s worth noting that nothing beats plain and simple. Its easy to accessorize and even easier to change and update when you change your mind. Here are a few quick fixes and tricks for getting creative with your plain floors to give them an instant artsy look.

1. Get modular wood
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Modular wood is relatively cheap and easy to set up. Virtually no installation is required since all you need to do to set them up is to set them down. One more great thing about it is that you can use the pieces in different rooms or areas in the house as needed since they will not be fixed and installed in a single area alone.Continue reading→

Flooring Guide – What To Know Before You Buy in Houston

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Make your old floors look like new with these three tricks

When Consumer Reports tests floors, it spends weeks scuffing, scratching, and dropping weights on wood, laminate and vinyl flooring and exposing samples to intense UV light. Not all floors stand up to such abuse. In your own home, some minor damage may enhance the rustic look of distressed or hand-scraped floors. But you’ll want to fix other flaws. Here are three tricks.

Mark it. A color-matched felt marker can hide small scratches in any floor. Some hardwood manufacturers offer color-blended filler for chips and grooves.

Sand it. Badly worn or damaged wood floors must be refinished. But you can do spot repairs of wear or damage with light buffing or sanding, followed by staining. Be especially careful with the thin veneers on engineered-wood floors.

Replace only what’s damaged. Heavy damage or a cracked stone tile typically requires chiseling out the damaged section and gluing in a new piece. But that’s still easier than removing an entire row of tiles or planks if you’ve floated the floor.

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