6 Flooring Trends for 2013

2013 Flooring Trends – The Top 6 trends – Westchester County NY 1.  Hardwood Flooring is the preferred flooring surface. There’s no contest – hardwood is in baby! It is by far the preferred flooring surface in Westchester County, especially for the main living areas of the home (i.e. living room, dining room, family room and even hardwood in the kitchen! Many also prefer hardwood for the bedrooms,too. Hardwood looks great, lasts...

What types of carpets are best for cats?

Cat friendly carpeting – Carpets that work well with Cats.   Cats are a very important part of the household, and my customers know I love cats (as well as dogs).  I “own” 2 cats…or maybe I should say, they own me and allow me to pay the mortgage.  Cats are wonderful, but sometimes they can do number on carpets, so it’s ideal to select a carpet that will co-exist well with your cat.  What types of carpets are best for...

Winners of the Angie’s List Super Service Award Flooring – 3 yrs in a row

We are honored to have won the 2012 Super Service Award from Angie’s List.  That makes it 3 years in a row.  We want to extend a very special thank you to our Angie’s List customers and their wonderful reviews.  They really do matter.   If you are not familiar with Angie’s list, it’s an objective Review site where customers can select contractors (and other professions) based on the reviews provided by other customers.  After you use a...

The Best of 2012 – My Top Flooring posts for the year

My Top Flooring posts for the year – The Best of 2012 I thought it would be fun as well as useful for my readers to recap my top Flooring articles for the year. These are sorted based on number of clicks in 2012.  If I think back to one year ago, I was starting to wonder if this new blog was even worth it.  I did a bunch of work to it during December, but it was the holidays, so traffic to the site was low and there was no way to tell if I was...

Flooded floors? Many don’t realize what insurance will cover.

What you are entitled to from your insurance company, if you floors need to replaced after a flood. Lately, we have a lot of customers who have had water damage on their floors.  Water damage can happen for a number of reasons (too many to list) and sometimes it is covered by insurance – either homeowner’s insurance or someone else’s insurance (e.g. if it was caused by the town or your condo, or an appliance under warranty,...