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Flooring gets quoted by the square foot. That is how the whole trade talks, it is how homeowners compare bids, and it works fine right up until the crew reaches the edge of the room. Because the edges are not square footage. Stairs are priced per tread. Transitions are priced per piece. Door undercuts are … Stair treads, transitions, and thresholds: the Raleigh details nobody quotes until it’s too late

Somebody in Raleigh calls me with two quotes for the same two car garage. One is $1,400. The other is $3,600. Same square footage, same house, and both companies say they are installing an epoxy floor. The homeowner wants to know why one guy is charging two and a half times more. Fair question. The … Garage epoxy cost in Raleigh: what prep adds, and why the cheap quote isn’t

By Mario Vilchis, owner, Vilchis Hardwood Floors. Refinishing floors in Durham since 2009. Here’s the short version, because it’s the thing everyone calls to ask: you can stay in your house. Most of our Durham refinishing customers sleep in their own beds every night of the job. The kitchen works. The upstairs bedrooms are fine. … Dustless Sanding, Explained: What to Expect When Your Floors Get Refinished

Homeowners ask us this in January and again in July, usually with some worry behind it. Someone told them you should never put wood down in the summer. Or their neighbor’s floor gapped over the winter, and now they’re convinced there’s a right month and a wrong month and they’re about to pick wrong. Short … Best and worst months to install hardwood in Raleigh (and why our schedule fills when it does)

Two questions come up on estimates more than any others once a homeowner has settled on vinyl. Can it go over the radiant heat we just put in? And can it go over a crawlspace, given what everybody knows about crawlspaces in this part of North Carolina? Short answers: yes to both, with conditions. The … Can you install vinyl plank in a Durham home with radiant heat or over a crawlspace?

Cleaning a vinyl floor and maintaining one are two different jobs. We already wrote up the cleaning side in our guide on how to clean luxury vinyl plank in a Durham home, so this post picks up where that one stops. Cleaning is what you do on Saturday. Maintenance is what decides whether the floor we … How to Maintain Vinyl Flooring in Durham, NC: A 20-Year Care Plan From a Triangle Installer

Written by Mario Vilchis, owner and CEO of Vilchis Hardwood Floors & Tile in Durham, NC. We have installed and refinished floors across the Triangle for more than 16 years. Here is the short version: hardwood is the better long-term floor, and vinyl plank is the better everyday floor. Wood adds real resale value and … Hardwood vs vinyl plank flooring in Durham, NC: an installer’s honest comparison

Yes, it is the same crew. The people installing hardwood flooring in Durham, NC on a Tuesday are the same ones unloading the trailer in North Hills on Thursday. Our shop sits at 237 Obie Dr in Durham, and most Raleigh jobs are about 25 minutes up I-40. Same vans, same sanders, same moisture meters, same Mario … One Crew, Two Cities: What Stays the Same From Durham to North Hills

Dustless refinishing means your house stays livable while we sand your floors, not sealed off with plastic sheeting and a mask for two weeks. It’s not 100% dust-free, nothing is, but it captures somewhere around 95% of the sanding dust at the source instead of letting it settle into your cabinets, your air ducts, and … Dustless Refinishing in Raleigh: How We Keep Your House Livable During the Job

Yes, in most cases we can make new hardwood match your existing floors closely enough that you have to look twice to find the seam. But “match” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Get the species, plank width, stain, or sheen wrong, and you end up with two different floors sitting next … Matching New Hardwood to Old Floors During a Raleigh Home Addition