• Hardwood Flooring
• Laminate Flooring
• Tile Flooring
• Wall to Wall Carpeting
• Vinyl / Resilient Flooring

Wood flooring has a prestigious look which adds sustainable value to your home. Hardwood floors come in countless species, widths and colors; to match any decor. With proper care and maintenance and due to technology improvements hardwood floors are now come resistant to fading and scratching and can usually be refinished several times.

There are two major types of hardwood flooring:

1. Solid wood flooring is milled from a solid piece of lumber, (IE no gluing or joining to produce the strip or plank) and must be installed on a wood subfloor with nails or cleats. Solid hardwood flooring has been around for centuries, and currently comes in both pre- finished and unfinished.

2. Engineered Wood Flooring is essentially plywood with a wood veneer in the species of your choosing. It’s advantages are (1) it does not expand and contract as much as solid wood floors, (2) it is not as thick, which in some cases causes height problems while transitioning from other flooring types, and (3) it is able to be installed over wood subfloors or concrete, because of its multiple install methods. (Glue down, glue together floating, click together floating, or nail/staple down. Engineered wood flooring has not been around as long but has a good track record and also comes in both pre- finished and unfinished versions

Keys to a good flooring installation are choosing a installation method that is correct for the circumstances, preparing the subfloor well before hard wood install, installing the floor per the manufacturer’s guidelines.
Most common types include:

• Domestic: Cherry Flooring, White Oak Flooring, Red Oak Flooring, Walnut Flooring, Brazilian Cherry Flooring, Maple Flooring, White Ash Flooring, Birch Flooring, Beech Flooring, Cypress Flooring, Douglas Fir Flooring, etc
• Exotic: Brazilian Cherry Flooring, Blackwood Flooring, Teak Flooring, Tigerwood Flooring, Brazilian Walnut Flooring, Rosewood Flooring, Cork Flooring, etc

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Laminate Flooring

Laminate wood flooring combines a realistic impression of real hardwood, stone and tile with an extremely durable finish. Laminate Floors have become a popular alternative to real hardwood and vinyl floors because of their ease of install and price. Examples of Laminate floors include Mohawk, Shaw, Quickstep, Wilsonart, Tarkett, and most notably Pergo.
Although these Laminated wood floors are not really wood, they are impact and scratch resistant and do not normally fade or stain.

Laminate floor installation was once dominated by products that had to be glued together, but recently the click together method has become more favorable because it is glue less and therefore much easier to install. Laminate flooring is always floated, (just held down by its own weight) so it can be installed over most subfloors and sometimes even the existing floor covering. Glueless laminate floors are a very good do-it-yourself (diy) product, but professional installations typically provide better results. Pro installs are less likely to have problems down the road like plank separation, hollow sound while walking, and pinching due to expansion.

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Tile Flooring

The earliest forms of tiles are found around 13th century BCE, and just like then tile floors and walls are typically the ultimate symbol of natural beauty and wealth. Tile floor styles are truly ininfinite due to the differences in tile shape, tile size, tile color, layout pattern, grout spacing, grout color, borders, mosaics, etc.

Ceramic tile and porcelain tile are a natural product made up of clay, a number of other naturally-occurring minerals and water. Both these tiles come in both glazed and unglazed tiles. Glazed ceramic tile has a ceramic coating applied to the tile body which gives the tile its color and finish. Other Types of tiles include: Slate, travertine, Granite, Marble, and other naturally occurring types of rocks.

Benefits of tile floors include durability and scratch resistance, ability to survive fire and water damage, and ease of cleaning due to low permeability.

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Wall to Wall Carpeting

Carpeting not only quiets a room but also offers homeowners more warmth and softness to touch than any other flooring product. Carpet is also more forgiving when installed over uneven subfloors, such as an uneven concrete slab. The newest trends in carpeting are more sophisticated elegant patterned designs. Many patterned textured carpets such as multi-looped berbers are becoming more popular with homeowners. The result gives a more three-dimensional appearance and pattern-on-pattern gives carpeting a more artistic and elegant look and also helps hide traffic patterns.

Advancements in carpet fiber technology and in carpet construction are making carpets softer, more stain-resistant and helping retain their like-new appearance far better than ever before. (See our Mohawk Smart Stand Carpet page for an example.) Among the most popular choices in carpeting construction with homeowners today are berber carpet, patterned carpets and textured cut pile saxonies that don't show foot prints or traffic patterns.
Even carpet cushions have dramatically been improved. Carpet cushions are now available that will block spills from penetrating the cushion and soaking into the subfloor. Some cushions help eliminate odors in your carpet as well.

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No other floor covering category offers the variety of colors and patterns as vinyl flooring! Thanks to some great advancements in wear layer and backing technology and styling, today's vinyl floors (also called resilient floors) have been changed forever. Today's unique manufacturing processes can replicate the look and textures of real ceramic tile, stone and wood grains. Vinyl flooring is manufactured in both sheet and tile. Both types of vinyl flooring come in a wide array of different designs, colors and price points.

The more expensive vinyl sheet flooring and tiles have better resistance to staining, scratches, gouges and tearing. Many have special fiberglass backings to prevent shrinkage and tearing. Not only is the performance better but so is the the warranty on the high-end vinyl floors. Also, as you go up in quality you will also notice improved styling and more textural realism in these floors.

Most of the vinyl flooring manufacturers are offering special fiberglass backings combined with extremely durable wear layers to improve durability and allow the vinyl flooring to be installed without any glue, or glue only applied around the perimeter of the room. The leading vinyl flooring manufacturers in the USA are Armstrong, Mannington, IVC (Dreamscape), Congoleum and Tarkett.

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