Updates To Our Hardwood Flooring Maintenance Tips Video List

We just updated our Hardwood Flooring Maintenance Video series with our latest compilation:

7 Hardwood Maintenance Tips

 

If you prefer simply to quickly skim these tips, here they are:

Vacuum or sweep your floor regularly with a soft-bristled attachment or broom, especially in high-traffic areas. This prevents gritty dirt and particle buildup that can scratch the wood’s surface. Don’t use vacuums with a beater bar or power rotary brush head.

Use a humidifier during heating seasons to help reduce wood shrinkage and humidity between 35% and 55%

Use ice to harden tough substances like wax or chewing gum, and then gently scrape with a plastic scraper or a credit card. Be careful not to scratch the surface and wipe the area clean with a soft, slightly damp cloth.

Avoid walking on your hardwood floors with spiked or damage-heeled shoes.

Resist wet-mop, damp-mop, or cleaning your hardwood with water or other liquids.

Don’t use oil soaps, liquid or paste wax, or other household products containing lemon, citrus, or tung oil, or silicon to clean floors.

Stay away from harsh cleaning aids like steel wool pads, any scouring pads containing metal, or scouring powders.

Don’t use 2-in-1 cleaners that contain acrylics or urethane polish to restore gloss.

If you have unfortunately done damage to your wood floors by cleaning them improperly, give us a call to go over your options. You can replace a piece or even give your Austin, Texas home or office an entirely new look by having us install brand new flooring.

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Happy Holidays From Johnson Fine Floors

Happy Holidays to all our fellow Austin Texas shoppers.

5 days to Christmas?  Can you believe how fast 2016 has been?   Anyways, if your out there on the mean streets looking for gifts for loved ones, drive safe, ya’ll!

(And yes, you can count us in as believing “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie).

We are located at 3301 Steck Ave #107 Austin, TX 78757

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Can Your Dog Clean Your Hardwood Floors?

We are such dog lovers at Johnson Fine Floors, your friendly neighborhood Flooring Store Nearby. This was just too funny to not share.

This is Stephan. He just wants to help. 13/10 such a good boy pic.twitter.com/DkBYaCAg2d

— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) December 9, 2016

It’s friday and we wish all of our customers and visitors to our content channels a good restful weekend and encourage them all to give their dogs a super nice treat.

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Flooring Store Near Me

North Austin, where Johnson Fine Floors is located, has been growing consistently for almost a decade now. According to city-level population estimates released on May 13th, Georgetown, is the fastest-growing U.S. city with more than 50,000 new residents. It grew by an eye opening 7.8 percent from mid-2014 through mid-2015, adding 4,611 residents and raising its population from 59,105 to 63,716.

How has the city of Austin’s growth been? It grew at a slower clip than its outskirts neighbors between 2014 and 2015, expanding by 2.1 percent with the addition of 19,117 residents to rise to a population of 931,830.

Growth like that has reflected in rising residential values. With such a redistribution of living spaces, Austin residential renovations and home improvement spending has been on an enviable upward trend. Of the most popular home improvement projects. Flooring renovation has seen a particularly notable rise. Swapping out old floors for the new innovative hardwood, stone and laminate flooring has been a favorite of Interior Designers and homeowners alike.

Anyone looking for a Flooring Store “near me” in Austin Texas, as is done so often, will have a handful of options. Johnson Fine Floors is located at 3301 Steck Ave #107 Austin, TX. Our location is in North Austin, in what is called the North Shoal Creek area. Across from MoPac Highway 1, looking Northwest and between Highway 360, are the affluent areas of Serena Woods, Spicewood Forest, Twin Mesa, Mountain Ridge, and Vista North. To the East of the North Shoal Creek area, is the North Austin Civic Association area. Growth in these areas has matched the overall North Austin growth trends.

What is to the North of Johnson Fine Floors? The areas of NcNeil, North Burnet, Jollyville, and Wells Branch.

What are the growth projections for the future? According to this new research by American City Business Journals, The population of the Texas capital, which reached 2 million last year, is projected to soar 98.5 percent to nearly 4 million by 2040. Businesses involved with home improvement and renovations are likely to benefit from the phenomenon of migration, and the following home sales.

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Stone Tile Lasts A Lifetime

Stone Tile is a luxurious product that may last a lifetime, which ensures it will more than pay for itself.

Natural Stone is a product that has this way of bringing the colors and texture of Nature right into your home. It can even do that while adding a quality and warmth to a room that proponents say is just not possible with any other material.

it is important that customers are aware of the inherent nature of stone and the upkeep. Proper maintenance of stone will ensure that their investment lasts.

And for anyone who indulges in putting their personal touch into their moments, Natural Stone tile creates a look that is truly unique and can’t be fully replicated with products made to look like natural stone. No two Stone floors can ever be exact matches.

It’s not just used for beautiful floors but also can be used for countertops, wall tile and decorative mosaics. Ask us more about this in our flooring showroom, if you like.

“As technology continues to advance, we will see increased creativity with stone mosaics,” said Roy Viana, director of natural stone and slab for Daltile. “The increased demand for textured mosaics has helped drive the advancement to three-dimensional tile, which adds depth and character to any room.”

“Additionally, these improvements are enabling us to offer more stones in larger formats, such as 8 x 36 planks or 18 x 36, which used to either be a challenge or was in limited supply,” Viana said. “The natural stone industry continues to reinvent itself through new stones, finishes and formats in all categories, with a larger focus in limestone and marble products.”

Most often, one finds themselves walking on Natural Stone floors when visiting Court and State buildings. Think back to your most recent visit to any elaborate and older buildings, like the Capitol building here in Austin Texas, and you will remember the stunning Stone work in those halls. To this day, the floors still look stunning. With the new affordability of Stone, consumers are now putting it in their bathrooms and other places to get what is called a “classic look”.

Some Flooring options go through many style, color and design trends, while others have to be replaced every decade or so just from normal wear and tear; natural stone is neither of these. Stone has a timeless “classic look”, and does not appear that it ever will be subject to trends. You can feel good knowing that your Natural Stone floor is so permanent.

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Green Building Materials Are Proliferating

Construction Industry journals like constructiondive.com are tracking just how much “Green” Building materials are being used throughout America’s construction activity. It’s going well, apparently. “Burgeoning green building materials market set to reach $255B by 2020”

• The global green building materials market is on pace to hit $255 billion by 2020, growing at an annual CAGR of approximately 12%, according to a report from Zion Research.
• Zion found the green materials market was valued at $127.5 billion in 2014, with the public facilities, education, commercial and industrial sectors dominating market demand. Public facilities alone represented more than 20% of the total green building materials market in 2014.
• North America and Europe are the two global regions seeing the strongest growth in demand for green building products. In 2014, North America accounted for more than 40% of the total green building materials market, according to the report.

It’s important for us, living in an eco-conscious city like Austin TX, to keep up to date on building materials, and make sure we are using the right tools, adhesives, and materials. If you have a question about “Green” materials or anything else that has you curious about the technological edge in flooring.

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Announcing Our Flooring Channel On Facebook

We enabled our Facebook page once again… and so far, we like using it. If you are active on Facebook, come visit our page at:

https://www.facebook.com/Johnson-Fine-Flooring-1491140017808031/

There was some interesting Flooring Industry news…

Kronospan announced the company plans to launch its new, comprehensive product line for the North American market, at its exhibit, booth 603, at the 2017 Surfaces trade show in Las Vegas. The company said during the Surfaces show, it will unveil its complete product line, which includes five design collections, featuring 94 new laminate flooring products.

“Our design and innovation team has worked hard to develop what we believe will be the best fashion-forward laminate product assortment currently available to the U.S. market. All 94 laminate products will be on display at Surfaces and the fresh, exciting collection will be of great interest to the design community,” said Babula.

The new Kronospan USA laminate flooring collection includes five design-inspired assortments: Authentic, Bohemian, Downtown, Pioneer, and Voyager. Kronospan will unveil its entire new product collection, with special attention to its Made in the U.S.A. products and capabilities.

Source: Floor Coverings Weekly 

We will be anxious to see what they come up with.  Laminate flooring technology, as reliable as ever, is changing, believe it or not.

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SCANDINAVIAN HARDWOOD HAS HIT AUSTIN TX

The buzz around our flooring showroom is all about the new offerings of Scandanavian Hardwoods

Their flooring products have recently gotten the spotlight treatment at the HG TV, and we are feeling the interest.  If you are looking at Hardwood Flooring for your home or office right now, this is what is hot right now.

What makes Scandanavian Hardwood so interesting?

They say it best…

From rustic hand-scraped, natural oil planks busting with knots and cracks, to highly select grades with solvent-free finishes; we are bringing you the best, made by the experts.

Our floors are manufactured by Kährs, a world renowned Swedish manufacturer who is known for innovation in design, quality, and sustainable manufacturing.

Roughly 70% of all wood used for production comes from within 120 miles of the factory.  All wood waste is recycled into biofuel energy, used to heat the factory and homes in the Swedish village of Nybro.

Just take a look at the below video of some of this beautiful wood.

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Austin’s New Homes Mean More Flooring

In January, the Austin Housing Market was predicted to have it’s 7th year of positive trending to match an overall economic growth curve. Well, it’s November, and we can safely say that is the case.

In fact, Austin has been getting lots of love in all kinds of areas, even Startup growth akin to what we hear about from Silicon Valley.

And that means lots of houses getting new owners, and new owners do one thing you can count on…

Modify their environment.

This fact has been why Johnson Fine Floors has been so dependable and successful… we love to get new home owners new floors.

And the choice of flooring is usually Hardwood Flooring.

In fact, Michael Martin, President and CEO of the National Hardwood Flooring Association is on record saying that Residential flooring replacement accounts for 53% of wood flooring sales by the end use market. The new home builders accounted for 25.3%.

We think Austin’s market tracks very closely with that, from what we see in our showroom. So if your one of our new Austinites, having moved here from one of the other 49 states, and your looking at your floor… give us a call, let’s see what kind of flooring will brighten your day, every day.

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Bandera Birch Wood

We are now offering any of the 4 beautiful Hardwood Flooring from the popular Hill Country Collection for only $2.99 per foot, while the offer lasts. Come on down to your Store, and take some samples home! Call us at Click This Number (512) 795-9008 to get your Flooring questions answered!

(NOTE: This offer expired in March, 2015. But guess what? WE RUN SPECIALS EVERY MONTH for our Austin customers. Call our showroom to see what we have crafted for your home right now!)

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In 2014, What Were The Most Purchased Flooring Choices Nationwide?

When you come down to our showroom, you may or may not have your flooring choices down solid. Even if you do, wouldn’t you like to know what the rest of the country is choosing? We came across some interesting information about that very thing. Below is a ranked list of the best selling flooring choices in 2014. Here we go:

1) 15.3% went with Hardwood Flooring

2) 12.1% chose Vinyl Sheet and Floor Tile

3) 5.7% bought Stone flooring

4) 4.3% purchased the always dependable Laminate Flooring

5) 1.2% went with Cork, Rubber, other plastics and linoleum.

How much was the total spent on flooring, you ask? For 2014, the above list accounted for $21.83 Billion spent on flooring.

Source: Floor Covering Weekly

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