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Engineered Floor vs Solid Wood

Engineered Floor vs Solid Wood

Engineered wood flooring vs solid wood flooring, which is best? The answer has and continues to be an ongoing battle, among many experts! The face solid wood and engineered wood may look the same. Regardless, there are differences that you should be aware of. Both solid and engineered wood …

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Wood Flooring Grades the Beauty and Ugly

There are different wood flooring grades (be it on room or shower) offering a variety of characteristics to wood floors. There is beauty and there is ugly in wood flooring. These perceptions can be the same wood flooring grades and the same pieces of wood within those grades. With wood flooring, …

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Luxury Vinyl Tile the Product

Luxury vinyl tile describes a variety of vinyl flooring products from those that appear as wood, natural stone, granite and ceramic tile. The possibilities are limitless as the patterns are produced through high definition photography similar to the production of wallpaper. The printed pattern is …

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Wood Floor Cupping Cause and Effect

Wood floor cupping is a common problem that occurs with both solid and engineered wood floors. If you think you can escape cupping by installing a bamboo or laminate floor you can't for they can also cup. What is Cupping and How Does it Occur? A cupped floor has a concave shape across the …

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How Sheet Vinyl is Made

Sheet vinyl is made to be a great floor covering performer. How sheet vinyl is made is not as complicated as one might imagine, for such an outstanding floor covering product, that is both durable and attractive. How Sheet Vinyl is Made, the Components Sheet vinyl is composed of 3 components, …

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Luxury vinyl tile flooring

Luxury Vinyl Tile Flooring

Luxury vinyl tile flooring an increasingly popular product and yet it does not have an established definition.  We hear LVT,  LVP and LVS among other acronyms. The acronym LVT is the most popular of the terms and used to identify "luxury vinyl tile flooring." …

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Luxury Vinyl Tile Advantages

Luxury vinyl tile advantages have increased so rapidly that it has become difficult to keep up with the almost daily changes and innovations.  During the 2oth century, vinyl flooring was thought to be the kitchen, bath room and industrial replacement for linoleum. Sheet vinyl and tiles offered …

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Bamboo Flooring Performance

Bamboo flooring performance is much like that of a hardwood floor. Like wood, bamboo flooring performance will not be the same with every installation.  You could install the same product from the same shipment in two houses sitting side-by-side with different performance  results. Bamboo flooring …

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Water Damaged Vinyl Flooring

Water damaged vinyl flooring is often unexpected. In an area such as a kitchen or bathroom, sheet vinyl flooring and water are generally a good match.  A recent claimant on a floor covering inspection told me they understood that they could chalk one more problem off their lists and install …

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Wood Flooring Problems Moisture Related

Wood flooring problems are  usually unexpected and most often preventable. Wood flooring is the real thing, unlike laminate which is a photograph of wood. Being a product of nature there will be occasional wood flooring problems. Wood flooring problems will usually be prevented through proper …

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About the Flooring Experts at Floor Central

Nationally Recognized, Flooring experts, Terry Weinheimer and Kevin Weinheimer, share floor covering information, and expert advice. Their company, The Weinheimer Group - TWG, inspects and performs onsite testing, of residential and commercial, floor coverings. Both off these …

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How Sheet Vinyl is Made

Sheet vinyl is made to be a great floor covering performer. How sheet vinyl is made is not as complicated as one might imagine, for such an outstanding floor covering product, that is both durable and attractive. How Sheet Vinyl is Made, the …

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Water Damaged Vinyl Flooring

Water damaged vinyl flooring is often unexpected. In an area such as a kitchen or bathroom, sheet vinyl flooring and water are generally a good match.  A recent claimant on a floor covering inspection told me they understood that they could chalk one more …

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installing peel and stick tile

Tips For Installing Peel and Stick Tile Floors

Step one in installing peel and stick tile floors starts with a clean, flat and dry surface. You can lay the new tile over the old tile or linoleum but the old surface needs to be secure to the floor and it needs to be thoroughly cleaned and dry and free from …

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Routine Resilient Floor Maintenance

Neglecting your resilient floor maintenance saves time for a very short period, which is followed by a game called Catch-up.  The rules of this game require that you to spend long, backbreaking hours on your hands and knees, using strong chemicals as you …

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Vinyl Floor Discoloration

Vinyl floor discoloration is a more common occurrence than one might think. Sheet vinyl floor discoloration can develop from above the product surface, below the product surface or within the product itself. With lighter colored material vinyl floor …

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When You Need a FloorCovering Inspector

Floor Covering is one of the largest investments a homeowner will make. At times, your expensive hardwood,  laminate, carpet, luxury vinyl or other flooring investment will fail.

The Weinheimer Group is here to help you. Many answers can be found on our webpages. When a more in-depth analysis is required, our Nationally Recognized Certified Flooring Experts are available to investigate the cause of complaint.

We will visit the installation, perform on-site testing, photograph and document the concern. Following our review of tests results and technical data, we prepare a written report based on the facts.

Our Certified Flooring Inspectors are members of National and International Professional Organizations such as WFCA, NWFA and NICFI.

Each inspector holds multiple certifications from national and international associations such as NWFA, NALFA and FCITS.

We service Oregon and Washington on a regular basis. As industry-recognized flooring experts, we are available for travel and consulting throughout the United States.

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