If you’ve decided you want to redecorate a room in your home and need new flooring, and have decided that carpet tiles or vinyl floor tiles are the best option for your home, the next step after choosing the tiles themselves and ordering them from a DIY store or carpet shop is to begin making preparations to lay your new floor.
One main consideration when planning to lay floor tiles is the surface that you will be laying them over. If you have removed your existing flooring such as old carpet, and will be laying your new flooring onto floorboards, you will need to lay hardboard sheets over the floorboards first, with the smooth side facing upwards. Even if you use hardboard however, you should never use treated timber as a sub floor.
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Carpet tiles and vinyl floor tiles can be an effective flooring solution for your home, especially in busy family areas of the house. Floor tiles are easy to lay by yourself, requiring minimal DIY skills, and if you are redecorating an average sized room, you shouldn’t need to set aside more than an afternoon to complete the job.
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There is a lot of scope when renovating or redecorating your property to introduce environmentally friendly materials into your home, reducing the carbon footprint of both your home and the renovation project itself. As being green becomes ever more popular, options such as environmentally friendly flooring from sustainable sources is not only a good option for a healthy living environment for your family, but could also be a great selling point for your home if you’re modernising or developing for property rental or resale.
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Most people consider burns, worn areas and stains to mean the end of the road for their old carpet and head off to the carpet showroom to see what type of carpet takes their fancy as a replacement. Another alternative however is to repair the carpet, saving money and cutting down on waste. It also means you don’t have to have the inconvenience of moving furniture and clearing the room in order to lay a new carpet.
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When you’re laying new flooring there is a wide range of styles and materials available from carpeting to wood floor to vinyl tiles and laminate flooring. Finding the right type of floor covering for your needs it important and knowing which to choose depends on the room you’re redecorating and how much traffic the room will get.
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When fitting a carpet, what lies beneath the hessian backing is often forgotten about, but the foundation of the flooring is perhaps the most important part. The value of good underlay is often underestimated.
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Ok so you’ve found your perfect wooden floor. Now whether that’s a laminate or solid oak floor covering unless you get it fitted properly it will look terrible. You will also need a few tools to do the job properly, these are; wood saw/jig saw, crow bar, flat piece of wood, hammer and nails. Also the flooring itself needs to be stored flat in the room at least for 24 hrs to acclimatise. Read more…
With all the doom and gloom in the press over the last 12 months it makes a refreshing and change to hear of a company posting positive sales and growth figures. Rotherham based United Carpets have recently announced sales figures with like for like sales over the 26 weeks leading up to the end of September showing a 2.5% growth. This shows that during tough times clever marketing and advertising and the right incentives can lead to positive sales trends. Read more…
It has been a thing in the past where treading bugs and fleas into carpet has made the industry think of new ways of germ prevention. Rawson Castle have come up with the answer, Permafresh a new anti-bacterial fibre which has incredible resistance to germs, bugs and living mould and bacteria. It has been created prodomently for public areas such as offices, leisure centres, schools and shops. The reason for this fantastic carpet being laid is obvious in those departments, but I am sure it will not be long before home owners get the bug for this great idea. Permafresh fibres act quickly to resist bacteria growth and can be seen on show at the Flooring show in Harrogate. Read more…
