Lately it seems everyone is talking about discount laminate flooring. What exactly is laminate flooring? It is a manufactured product that is made to simulate the look of its counterpart natural products like wood for example. Today’s technology allows the manufacturing of realistic looking wood floor covering complete with texture and grains. If it’s a...
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Discount Carpet and Cleaning
Shaw Flooring Industries is one of many in the flooring industry that answers questions about allergens and carpet. People are under the misconception that cheap carpet causes allergies and such. The falsehoods associated with this have been around for a long time. Let’s take a moment and think about carpet. Carpet as with any other...
Discount Flooring – Going Green
Today is Earth Day and a great topic is “going green”. In the carpet and flooring industry many strides have been taken to do just that, go green. Everything from developing new environmentally friendly methods of producing fibers to recycling programs for flooring that is no longer viable in the home. Hard surfaces now include...
Shaw Flooring Warehouse Sale
I just got back from the warehouse sale put on by Shaw Flooring. They showcase some of their newer products as well as ones that will be introduced in 2009. It was great going to the warehouse. I got to see some of their carpet rollers (which are huge) as well as their warehouse facility....
Carpet Remnant Uses
Carpet remnants are perfect for smaller floor covering jobs. If you need to carpet one room it might be more cost efficient to look at discount carpet remnants. Carpet remnants are usually made from the short piece of carpet left over from a roll that has been installed. The remnant is then measured, priced and...
Carpet Still Main Floor Covering
Carpet is still the primary choice of floor covering for most homeowners. There are numerous reasons for this but in this economy it is safe to say that carpet is relatively inexpensive and easier to install than other types of flooring. Today more than ever there are many color and texture choices for the fashion...
Shaw Flooring Launches New Council
Shaw Flooring has launched a “Growth and Sustainability Council”. The council is made up with 15 executives at the top level whose purpose is to focus on long term business growth and sustainability issues. The group will be guided by Randy Merritt, Shaw’s president, and Ken Jackson, Shaw’s CFO. Shaw has consistently been an industry...