How to Remove Pet Urine on Hardwood Floors
Nobody relishes the thought of cleaning cat or dog urine from a hardwood floor, but...
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Signs Your Floor Has Woodworm and How to Treat it
Woodworm can appear in any type of timber, including real wood floorboards. The term refers...
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What’s the Best Flooring for Families?
A home’s floor takes a lot of wear and tear, particularly in busy households with...
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How To Clean Spots Off Carpet
Carpets are still one of the more popular flooring types for specific rooms. Unfortunately, some...
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20 Interesting Facts About Wood
As one of our oldest natural resources, wood isn’t something we particularly think about often...
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How to Level a Concrete Floor
No matter what type of flooring you are about to lay in your home or...
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Dark Wood Flooring - The Benefits
Flooring isn’t something you want to change too often – it’s a big task and...
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Fix Squeaky Floors: Why Is My Floor Squeaking & How to Stop It?
While squeaking and creaking floorboards can let you know who’s roaming about the house in...
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Flooring Calculator: How Much Laminate Do You Need?
Laying laminate by yourself is a surprisingly easy task, which is why this flooring solution...
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How to Lay Flooring on a Concrete Subfloor
As subfloors go, concrete isn’t the easiest to deal with and it can be somewhat...
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A Guide to the Best Pet Friendly Flooring for Your Home
Our furry friends can truly make a house a home, and for approximately 62% of...
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Vinyl Floor Care: How to Clean & Repair Vinyl Flooring
Vinyl flooring & Luxury Vinyl Tiles are a popular home solution due to the fact...
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Solid Wood Flooring Prices & The Cost of Solid Wood
As a luxurious and gorgeous choice for your home, we've examined the cost of solid wood to see if it's the right choice for you
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How To Restore and Care For Your Solid Wood Floor
If you are wondering how to restore and care for your solid wood floor, you've...
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How To Lay A Solid Wood Floor
Approaching the task of laying solid wood flooring can make even the most seasoned DIY...
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How to lay laminate flooring
Whether you’re a DIY pro or not, fitting laminate flooring is a fairly straightforward job...
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Engineered Wood Flooring Maintenance and Repair
Engineered wood is becoming increasingly in demand as an alternative to solid wood flooring. This...
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Engineered vs Laminate vs Solid Wood
If you’re looking to obtain the look of real wood in your home but can’t...
5 Floor Trends of 2019 to Transform Your Home
We’d all love to have a home that looks like the pages of a glossy...
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How To Clean Laminate Flooring
Cleaning floors may seem like a chore, but with laminate flooring, maintenance is a breeze...
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How To Install Vinyl Floors
We take a look at how to install vinyl flooring, from preparing the subfloor to laying the vinyl and looking after your beautiful new floor.
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How Many Trees Are There In The World?
According to research by nature.com in 2015, there are 3,040 trillion trees in the world...
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A Quick Guide to Choosing the Best Type of Flooring
Vinyl? Laminate? Solid Wood? LVT? How do you know what is the best type of...
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How To Design A Restaurant Floor Plan To Entice Diners
The interior design and room layout of any venue are equally, if not more important...
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Living Room Layout Tricks To Maximise Your Floor Space
Sometimes we get so used to our living spaces that we don't even realise how...
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Fairy Tale Homes, Re-imagined
While at Factory Direct Flooring Ltd you can find a host of flooring solutions for...
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Sanding Wooden Floors: When and How to Sand Wood Flooring
Although it’s a beautiful type of flooring, which offers more authenticity than laminate or engineered...
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Why Do I Need To Acclimatise My Flooring?
It's natural to be excited when your brand new flooring has finally arrived on your...
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