A lot homeowners have trouble estimating the amount of hardwood floroing they need to shop for online. The estimator below does a good job of estimating how much hardwood flooring you may need and helping you calculate the costs for material.
Hardwood Floor Estimator and Cost Calculator
With all the advancements in hardwood flooring finishes, construction methods and the wide variety of species available today, hardwood floors have become extremely popular choice among many homeowners. These floors are now being used in almost every room in the home and over a variety of different types of sub-floors.
A lot of homes have concrete slabs and that presents different issues that need to evaluated before purchasing any wood flooring. Below is a three part article that may help you to better understand your options and what is involved with installing a hardwood floor over a concrete slab.
How To Install A Hardwood Floor Over A Concrete Slab
This is a great how to video showing do-it-yourself laminate flooring installers how to install Quick-Step laminate flooring on stairs.
Virtual Room Designer
Do you ever wonder what flooring will look like in a room similar to your own? FloorFacts.com has recently added a virtual room designer for homeowners to try out different types of flooring in a variety of different room settings.
The room designer is powered by Swatch Builder, a software company that develops virtual room and exterior home design tools.
The virtual room designer allows anyone for free to see different colors and styles of carpet, hardwood flooring, laminate flooring, ceramic tile and vinyl flooring and with different color of paint for the walls. This is a great wall to explore different types of flooring online and it is free to everyone. Click here for the virtual room designer. Enjoy!
Many homeowners don’t understand the real importance of quality cushion underneath their new carpeting. Some retailers will use lower quality cushions to reduce their overall installed price to shoppers who are doing comparison shopping. This can be a costly mistake in the long run for homeowners buying carpet.
A good quality, dense cushion acts as a shock absorber when someone walks across a carpet. Instead of the carpet taking the stress and force exerted by foot traffic, the cushion absorbs the bulk of it and then pushes the carpet’s nap back up. Without a good dense carpet cushion the cushion looses its resiliency and then then carpet begins to show signs of traffic patterns. The traffic patterns will continue to get worse as the carpet yarn mats and stays crushed down. Plus, the cushion underneath has collapsed and has lost its bounce.
All of this can be avoided with a good, dense carpet cushion. Even a less expensive carpet will last longer and feel better on top of a good quality, dense carpet cushion. Carpet cushion is one place you don’t want to skimp on. The best you can afford for the given traffic area and type of carpet. For example: carpet manufacturers make specific carpet cushion recommendations to not void their warranties. Be sure to ask the retailers for a copy of the warranty and follow the manufacturer’s cushion recommendations.
Rebond Carpet Cushion
The common types of carpet cushion are prime foam, rebond foam, runner and fiber. The most often used are the polyurethane foam cushions. Rebonded foam is actually scrapes and small chunks of polyurethane foam left over from manufacturing of upholstered furniture, mattresses, and automobile seats. Cushion thickness vary from 1/4″ to 9/16″ in thickness. A 6lb to 8lb. density rebond carpet cushion in 3/8″ to 1/2″ thickness can be a great choice for underneath any new carpet. For berber carpets most carpet manufacturers recommend no more than a 3/8″ thickness cushion in a high density, such as 8lb. density. Also, dense carpet cushion may eliminate some of the re-stretch issues that can occur with some carpet installations.
