Tips When Choosing Carpet for Your Home

Posted on: 21 December 2020

When installing new carpet in your home, you'll need to consider the various colours, piles and textures to pick the best flooring to match the decor and handle the traffic. To help, consider the following tips. Room Lighting and Proportions Carpet offers a wide range of colours in both light and dark shades. Don't forget to factor in the room dimensions and brightness when going for a pale or deep hue.
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Why Vinyl Flor Tiles Are A Great Option For First Homebuyers

Posted on: 22 October 2019

Every year thousands of people enter the homeowners' market for the first time. Some know a lot about DIY decorating and furnishing methods while others know absolutely nothing. Whatever the case may be for you, it is important that you choose flooring options that are durable, provide value for money and look great. While many first-time homebuyers are enamoured with the idea of artisanal tiles and beautiful timber flooring, the truth is that this is not really sustainable or appropriate on a first-time buyer's budget.
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Two Common Reasons for a Creaking Floating Floor and Ways to Fix It

Posted on: 19 November 2018

A creaking floor can be a terrible nuisance—this is never truer than for parents creeping out of the room of a child they've just struggled to get to sleep. Wherever your creaking floor is, it can be an irritation to live with. If you're fed up of your creaking floating floor, and you're here looking for the cause and fix, read on for more information. Board Movement The most common cause of creaking with floating floors is board movement.
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The Main Components of Floor Trusses

Posted on: 17 August 2018

Theoretically, you could just place planks or sheets of plywood between joists to create a floor, but if you do that, the timber won't be strong enough to support the weight on the floor. Ultimately, a floor built like this will bow in the middle and eventually fall apart. To prevent that from happening, you need to use floor trusses. Similar to the designs that hold up bridges, floor trusses contain the following essential elements.
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