Category archive: Flooring

Floor Care

Make sure to treat your floor with floor care.How you treat your floors is an aesthetic as well as practical consideration. You can polish, paint, carpet, put down area rugs or lay tiles. The decision is based on the size of the room, how it will be used and the style of the furnishings. Carpeting…

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How To Cement A Floor

This page will teach you how to cement a floor. When choosing to insert cement-concrete flooring in your new property, there are generally two methods of doing it which are: 1) Laying concrete floor with strips 2) Laying concrete floor without strips The first method is recommended for inexperienced builders and/ or complicated ground work. In the first method,…

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How to Repair Cracks and Holes in Floors

Before laying a new floorcovering, it is essential that the existing floor surface is sound and smooth. As well as repairing or replacing floorboards, you may have to fill cracks and holes in wooden floors, and deal with unevenness, and possibly damp, in solid floors. Any faults not rectified will eventually show through the floor…

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Fitted Carpet, Rugs or Wood Flooring?

Way back in the mists of time when the fitted carpet first appeared on the scene, anyone caught with a rug and – oh the shame – their floorboards exposed was seriously out of touch with the decorating trends of the day. Nowadays it is all about ripping up the shag-pile and crossing your fingers…

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