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Learn more about Hardwood Flooring

Why Hardwood Flooring?

No other type of flooring can match the endurance and performance of hardwood flooring. Hardwood flooring surpasses time. Hardwood Flooring is easy to maintain and comes in various finishes, grades, colors and species. Hardwood flooring can be used in both residential and commercial flooring applications. Here we will touch on each topic to learn more about hardwood flooring.

Hardwood Flooring is one of the most affordable options when choosing your type of flooring. Hardwood Flooring never has to be "replaced". Finishes can be repaired or reapplied easily. Hardwood floors are easily renewed by using a refresher to restore the shine, applying a light screen and coat with urethane and if all else fails, you have the option to sand and refinish your hardwood floors! With almost any other type of flooring, once it is old and worn out, it has to be replaced - but not hardwood flooring. Hardwood Flooring becomes more valuable over time and more beautiful with every day's wear and tear. Some major manufacturers even have engineered hardwood flooring that looks like aged hardwood flooring from many years ago.

Hardwood flooring is an ideal choice for people with allergies and is the easiest floor to maintain. Hardwood requires fewer chemicals to clean. You don't even need chemicals really. Just warm water and some regular household vinegar will clean, disinfect and make your hardwood floors shine!

Hardwood Flooring Options

There are two basic types of hardwood flooring:

1. Solid Hardwood – Solid hardwood is just that. It is cut from a piece of solid hardwood like oak, maple, birch, cherry, etc. Solid hardwood can be refinished and re-coated several times which makes it highly desirable. It can easily last over 100 years! Solid hardwood is available unfinished, you choose your stain color which makes it easy to customize to your existing décor.

2. Engineered Hardwood – Engineered hardwood is prefabricated and contrary to what many people think, engineered wood is real wood. Engineered wood is comprised of layers much like a sandwich. The top layer is a wood finish which is usually 1/16" to 1/8" thick, the layers underneath are plywood or compressed wood. Whatever species of solid hardwood, there is an engineered hardwood to correspond. Engineered wood flooring is prefinished, which makes it very appealing to the consumer that does not want the dust and debris that comes with the sanding of solid hardwood. Another advantage of engineered hardwood flooring is that it can withstand moisture, which makes it ideal for installations in basements.

Learn more about Commercial Carpet Tile

About Commercial Carpet Tile

Commercial carpet tile is also known as modular flooring. Carpet tiles sometimes called carpet squares are an extremely popular type of flooring for many reasons. Why should you choose commercial carpet tile? The answer in one sentence, commercial carpet tiles are easy to install, maintain, repair and are cost effective.

Commercial Carpet Tile Market Segments

• Education - Commercial carpet tiles are ideal for high traffic corridors and classrooms to conference rooms, libraries, auditoriums, day care centers and waiting areas, etc.
• Healthcare – Commercial carpet tile is just what the doctor ordered for medical office buildings, doctor's offices, waiting rooms or assisted living and skilled nursing facilities
• Corporate – Carpet tiles are the flooring of choice for many office buildings, conference rooms, lobbies, hallways
• Hospitality – Commercial carpet tiles are perfect for hotel rooms, restaurants, resort suites, conference centers, country clubs, casinos, lounges, hallways, lobbies and elevators
• Government – Government buildings need flooring too! The choice flooring is commercial carpet tile for libraries, court houses, court rooms, staff areas, administrative offices, common areas of institutions and museums
• Retail – Commercial carpet tile is perfect for boutiques, department stores, retail stores, dressing rooms, and common areas in a mall

Learn more about Carpet Remnants

Beautiful Carpet Remnants at Great Prices!

Buying a carpet remnant is a great way to buy a really high quality carpet at a really low price. A carpet remnant is left-over carpet. Don't be scared by the word, left-over, it's a good thing and works to your advantage.

There are times when it is more beneficial for the flooring store owner to buy a whole roll of carpet instead of cut orders. For example, someone is carpeting their house and needs 1,000 square feet of carpet. The flooring store then checks stock with a manufacturer, like Mohawk, Shaw, Stanton or Nourison...great quality carpets. When stock is checked, there is a 100 foot roll available. This particular roll is 12 feet wide and 100 feet long...so we have 1,200 square feet of carpet but we only need 1,000. The remaining 200 square feet can carpet a space that is 12 x 16.

A local flooring store, like Floor Expo would buy the whole roll, use what we need and sell the rest of the carpet as a remnant. You, the customer, are going to get a great deal because that carpet was ordered for someone else, the carpet is already in stock and bottom line, we just want to get rid of it. That is why carpet remnants are so cheap money wise but not cheap quality wise!

Floor Expo in Fairfield, NJ has a huge inventory of carpet remnants for sale in our New Jersey Flooring Store.