Home environment
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Protecting Your Floors During a Move
How to Prevent Damaging your floors during a move Moving can be a stressful endeavor. From trying to keep all your belongings organized to unpacking and acclimating to a new home, moving just isn’t fun- especially moving in the cold winter months of New York or rainy seasons of the South. One of the many goals during a move is to not damage the home your leaving and the home you are moving into. Your flooring is most susceptible to damage during a move because of all the traffic it is receiving. The points below will help minimize the abuse your flooring will take during a move. It is very…
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Best Flooring For a Laundry Room
Thinking about remodeling your existing laundry room? Or maybe adding a new one to your home? When the time comes to decide on the flooring, you should know that the choice really matters. Whether you have brand new, state of the art appliances with VRT technology or trusty older models, all washers and dryers produce movement, heat, humidity and moisture, which could reek havoc on many different flooring materials. The flooring you choose has to battle against potential scratches, denting and the occasional leak, if not something even bigger. Your laundry room floors should have characteristics like being water-resistant if not completely water-proof, easy to clean and maintain, and, of…
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Top 3 things to do before you leave on vacation, to care for your floors –
Planning a vacation is something a lot of us look forward to throughout the year, and who could blame us? Who doesn’t love a little time away from work; soaking up some much needed sun, kicking back, relaxing and leaving the day-to-day stresses and worries back at home. After a nice, long vacation, it’s often comforting to come back home; assuming your home is in the same condition as when you left it, that is. What we mean is, we understand how easy it is to forget about the maintenance of your homes “environment” when you’re away on vacation. Not many people go away and wonder how their floors…
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Water Resistant Flooring
Water Resistant Flooring Options Do you need a material that’s water resistant? 5 main flooring options on the market that are water and mold resistant, will not succumb to buckling and are ideal for all weather conditions due to their lack of expanding and contracting. One of the most popular known water resistant flooring is tile. Tile is an incredibly durable material. There are tons of choices in color, shape and variation. You can choose many different install patterns for a more custom floor, (ie: specialty designs and custom inlays and borders, herringbone lay, custom pendants, etc) Tile planks that look like textured hardwood is an ever growing trend today. …
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How Your Homes Environment Effects Your Hardwood Floors
How your home environment can and will affect your hardwood floors- Having a regulated indoor temperature is of the utmost importance when caring for your hardwood floors. Regulating your homes climate should be part of your everyday floor care and maintenance routine. Many people do not realize how the heat, humidity and cold impact their hardwood floors; (specifically, a drastic incline or decline of temperature and/or humidity). Even though hardwood flooring is made from a dead tree, in essence, it reacts to its climate as though it were “alive.” When hot and humid, hardwood planks retain the humidity/moisture in the air, causing them to expand. When the humidity is low…
