Animals and Carpet

We at Country Flooring Direct have a few choices in tems of carpeting if you have pets one of them has a lifetime warranty against all stains and is made out of corn oil and the other is a PET Polyester.

This is a picture of a job we just did, The lovely customer had cats and wanted a carpet that was easy to clean so, we put a closed cell urethane cushion down under a PET Polyester Carpet.

Carpets made from PET Polyester are:

Very Green made from recycled coke bottles

Very easy to clean, Naturally stain resistant

More affordable, you get more carpet for your dollar

The benefit of a close cell urethane foam is:

Doubles your Carpet warranty

Does not absorb dirt, and stains,

Feels softer under your foot

Hypo allergenic

cherry colored Laminate for a flooded customer.

A good friend Charlie from Hers and His Plumbing, 615 790 9414, referred us to this customer. We replaced carpet, vinyl, and tile with all new laminate and tile floor covering through the entire house. The customer needed new floor because of a small flood. The customer needed a floor right away so Country Flooring Direct came in that day, ripped out all the old floor, put the customers stuff in a pod, dropped off the new floor, and waited four days for the concrete floor to dry. From start to finish, the job took three working days or about one week from the time we dropped off the product to finish. As always, the jobsite was left clean.

T&M Builders Lot 41 in White Bluff done in all Laminate

Here is a job we just completed, Dropped off the material Friday started it on Monday and was done by noon on Tuesday. The builder was impressed that he could put his cigarette out on the laminate without damaging it. A lovely 1200 sq ft 3 bedroom 2 bath with laminate all the way through Tile in the bathrooms available in White Bluff TN. I included pictures of the floor and the house because I liked the color of the home and its down the road from where I live. Call Wayne 351 8668.

What does Kevin think is Green In floor Covering?

Everyone in Flooring is going green. Green Carpet made from corn, Green Carpet made from recycled yarn or coke bottles, Green hardwood Green laminate. . . But in reality what is best for the environment? This is an opinion based on facts from my point of view.

Quality Solid Hardwood, Wool Carpet, and Ceramic Tile uses the least amount of Chemicals and has the best longevity. These are the floors I consider environmentally friendly.

Hardwood Is a natural, easily renewable, biodegradable product.

Preferably companies that are regional are better because they use less fuel in shipping the product to you. Our local hardwood mill Country Flooring Direct buys from is Graf Bros http://www.grafbrothersflooring.com/ They are located in Kentucky and make some of the most beautiful unfinished red and white oak available. We also carry Shaw that
manufacturers most of their wood in North Carolina and ForesBec is our Premium wood out of Canada http://www.foresfloor.com/en/en_plvernic.html . There is very little waste in
manufacturing hardwood flooring, if you look at the charts given by ForesBec you will see the country or Cheaper product is the wood left over from making the nicer hardwood and the wood left over from that is chipped into mulch. I have the ForesBec manufacturing video at home if you are looking for something to do on a nice night with your loved one.

Wool Carpets last for a very long time and is natural easily renewable biodegradable product.

Besides the backing there are very little chemicals used in the manufacturing other than most wool either comes from Africa or New Zealand and the cost factor of the Wood Carpet it is a very environmentally friendly floor. The wool alternative is PET Polyesters and Type 6 or "GREEN" Nylons or Corn Carpet these products are awesome and i recommend any of them if you are on a budget. However I recommend them for practicality and price reasons and not environmental reasons.

Tile is pretty explanatory its either rock mud or porcelain not very biodegradable and I don't know if we are in a dirt shortage, but it does last a very long time.

I do not think that engineered nor bamboo floors are more environmentally friendly than Oak or Brazilian Cherry because they use more chemicals in the process are more likely to be made over seas and do not tend to last as long. I do feel that Brazilian Hardwoods have a bad name in the environmental field from over harvesting that took place many years ago. Today Illegal harvesters are prosecuted very heavily and Tree plantations are providing most of the flooring you are walking on today from Brazil.

I do think it is really awesome that we are moving towards environmentally friendly products as a culture, but it is equally important that we do not let marketing divert our attention to products that are only "GREEN" in name.

Thank you for your time,

Shaw Laminate Natural Values SL224 Now offered at Country Flooring Direct

To serve our customers better we have started doing laminate. I have sold different lines of laminate flooring over the past 15 years however because of our great buying power ability on Solid Hardwood, we at Country Flooring Direct did not see the value in a laminate. Not until we brought on Shaw Laminate Natural Values Line it comes in 10 awesome patterns and has one of the easiest to use locking systems. When you can sell hardwood flooring as low as we do it is hard to appreciate the value of laminate, however do to customer demand we are able to install this product for as little as $4 including sales tax and necessary underlayments.

We have had great response from builders looking to save money and do it yourself customers. However my first Fairview TN customer got snagged by looking at Brazilian Walnut for twice the price but its just so dang good looking.

Best Regards,

Happy Shopping
Country Flooring Direct

Here is a link to the shaw site you can look at thier product

http://www.shawfloors.com/laminate-flooringDetails/Searchdb/Natural_Values_Collection-Bryce_Canyon_Maple