There are so many wannabes in the flooring business. One recent failure is the group known as Floors Today (orginally started as Laminate Kingdom.) Very smart guys running it, but they lost their focus I guess. They were so successful in the UK and I think overall had a brilliant vision. The operation went...
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Some Feedback and a Question
> Steve, > > I love the fact that you are passionate about your job – you are > inspirational! > > First – Feedback on flooring: I had Pergo and Wilsonart in my last > home and preferred Pergo – the Wilsonart seemed to move too much. > Depending upon the weather it...
Maintenance – yes, it is still required
Well here I am typing about flooring maintenance. Not the most sexy topic obviously, but it is so critical to overall satisfaction with flooring of ANY kind. Modern floors are tough and there are some aspects of certain floors that really add extra dimensions of durability, but I don’t care where you’re from or...
March flooring Madness
Wow it is really amazing how much floor buying behavior changes at the start of March. We have had a very strong winter in general, but the very noticeable increase in demand started almost exactly on March 1st! Amazing. The good news is for those that get in early they capture some of the...
Hardwood Flooring
We have seen alot of increasing prices in hardwood recently. New duties and customs fees are impacting prices of imports, making the US and Canada that much more competitive. The new harmoized tariff seems to be bad for flooring consumers. I would expect prices to continue to increase for the rest of this year...
Inventory
You know I routinely see flooring companies (both online and offline) claiming to have products “in stock” or “we have 200,000 feet in stock”, but too often they really don’t have much stock at all. At iFLOOR we operate our own warehouses over 23 nationwide and we use manufacturers warehouses at times as well...
