Flooring

Tile presents an unsurpassed level of elegance and character to your home. With hundreds of styles , texture, shapes, and colors to choose from, the design options are unlimited. ceramic tile is formed from a mixture of clay, talc, and other minerals that undergo a "firing" process at high temperatures and pressures. Typical applications include kitchen and bathroom floors as well as decorative walls.

Selecting the Right Tile

Depending on the area of the home where the tiles are installed, it is important to consider factors such as slip and abrasion resistance, particularly for flooring applications. For wet areas such as showers and tubs (or exteriors) it is crucial that vitreous or impervious tiles be selected. For countertop applications, additional factors such as chemical and impact resistance should be considered.

Hardwood floors add a beautiful and natural touch. They also add value to your home and are highly praised in the resale home market. Today's hardwood floors have made advances in style, durability, maintenance and care, making them more widely usable throughout the home. There are hundreds of choices in style and color with today's options even spanning into exotic hardwoods. Most wood floors are available in several grades in a wide range of prices.

Styles

Woods styles come in strips, planks, or parquet tiles with numerous edge treatments such as square, micro, and beveled edges. You can choose from a wide range of stains to complement your décor and from two types of finishes: urethane or wax. Unfinished wood floors are also available and typically cost less. However, these may require re-coating every five to seven years.

Today's wood floors have been designed to withstand the wear and friction as a result of our busy lives. Technological advances in finishes have made possible the increased stain and wear-resistant characteristics.

Laminate floors provide the highest flexibility in terms of availability of colors, patterns and styles. Laminate floor planks are made of fused high density fiberboard layers resulting in an extremely durable material. Image patterns are developed on the top layer using highly advanced imaging techniques and the surface is typically coated with Aluminum Oxide thus preventing scratching and staining. Laminate floors are also sometimes referred as floating floors because the planks are interlaced together by moisture sealed tongue and groove joints.

Design and Style

Laminate floors offer unlimited design and style possibilities in terms of partners, colors, and accents. Patterns and colors are derived from authentic three-dimensional reproductions of different wood species such as Pine, Maple, Oak, Chestnut, and others.

Vinyl floors, sometimes called resilient floors are highly versatile materials that can be used in many applications around the home, particularly in wet or moisture environments. Vinyl flooring materials are highly durable and are more affordable than other flooring materials such as ceramic tile or woods. Advanced manufacturing techniques have made possible to produce vinyl materials with a very realistic resemblance to other natural materials such as marble, ceramic tile, etc.

Styles

There are literally hundreds of styles with different patterns , glosses, and colors. Matching a particular decorative style should not be a problem.