Month: January 2019

Four Ways Of Installing Bamboo Flooring

When it comes to home flooring, everyone’s got a preference. Some swear by the natural look and feel of a hardwood floor. Others prefer vinyl flooring or laminate flooring. Whatever a person’s preference is for flooring, he/she tends to choose flooring for its look and feel as well as its durability.

What’s more is that people are willing to pay for flooring. In fact, total 2017 flooring sales topped out at nearly $22 billion.

While carpet, vinyl and laminate flooring may be popular flooring options, there are also many reasons to consider bamboo flooring.

  • Top-grade bamboo flooring is very durable, but make sure to find flooring with a warranty. The Janka test is often used to deduce bamboo flooring hardness. This test measures the force required to embed an 11.28 millimeter (0.444 inch) steel ball into wood to half its diameter (0.222 inch). This method results in an indention 100 square millimeters in size.

    Only three flooring options have a harder Janka rating

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Building the Right Fence for the Home

For a modern home or a smaller commercial building, it may be the right call to have a fence installed, and a fence contractor can be hired locally to construct the right kind of fence for a property. A fence company may have the materials and skills for different materials such as wood, aluminum fencing, brick, and more, and a fence can also have entrance gates installed for a driveway or a walkway to the front door. Often, a fence is a part of a home’s landscaping, and it can also be very useful for privacy and security purposes as well. Landscaping refers to additions to a home’s front or back yard to make it more attractive and fun, anything from a flower garden or shrubs and trees all the way to a wooden deck, a swimming pool, and of course, fence installation by a fence contractor. Some homeowners will have the skills and tools to install a fence themselves, such as digging the fence post holes, but for the most part, interested customers can reach out to a fence contractor to ha

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