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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