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Top Brand Spotlight: Why COREtec Flooring Is a Floors USA Favorite

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First created in Piet Dossche’s spare bedroom in 2001, COREtec Flooring is now known for durability, style, and innovation. COREtec is now patented and owned by Shaw Flooring, a brand that’s been voted #1 for over a decade.COREtec offers luxury vinyl tile that provides the realistic look of natural ...
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How to Choose the Best Tile and Grout Color Combinations

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Whether it’s the kitchen, bathroom, or any room in between, adding new tiling to your home is fun and can elevate your home’s aesthetic. With nearly endless options available, you might feel a little overwhelmed by choosing a tile you love and matching it with a grout color that achieves the ...
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Top Flooring Brand Spotlight: Shaw Flooring

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Shaw Flooring is well-known as one of the top flooring brands ever made. We’ve been selling and installing Shaw Flooring for decades, and we can attest to its beauty and quality.Choosing new flooring for your home can be a long-term investment, so it’s important to trust the right brands. Shaw ...
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August Featured Item of the Month!

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August featured item of the monthBruce Lifeseal Trending Rigid Core LVTThis carefully curated collection features stunning realistic visuals in oak and rustic oak looks. The 7” wide planks mean fewer seams and less distraction for an elegant, upscale design aesthetic. This collection delivers 100% ...
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Everything You Need to Know About Hardwood Floor Refinishing

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Hardwood flooring is notoriously beautiful, classically stylish, great for your home value, and long-lasting — decades, with the proper care. Over time, the original glossy shine can fade and begin to show scratches and scuffs. But that doesn’t always mean it’s time to start over with new flooring, ...
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Have you seen our backsplash display in person?

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We had this custom display built in out King of Prussia, PA superstore to curate all of today’s hottest trends and everyday staples for your backsplash project. It features stunning mosaics, porcelain in timeless color and size options as well as beautiful natural stone options.What tiles are best ...
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June’s Featured item of the Month!

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“The most realistic visual I’ve ever seen!” -Mike Moll, Floors USA BuyerKarastan’s Modern Elegance waterproof laminate is a stunning collection that offers livable luxury with styles inspired by nature. Floors USA has 4 beautiful colors in stock in our King of Prussia, PA superstore. The perfect ...
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Floors USA Warehouse Upgrade!

Our King of Prussia, PA superstore has been upgraded!

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Floors USA King of Prussia, PA Warehouse
At Floors USA we are constantly striving to make the process of buying a new floor more efficient and more accessible for our customers. We have recently invested in upgrading our warehouse to better serve you.  All of our stock will now be available in our King of Prussia, PA superstore! We pride ...
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Floors USA to Donate $10,000 of Flooring to a Local Nonprofit

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Floors USA to Donate $10,000 of Flooring to a Local NonprofitKnow a charitable organization in need of flooring? Nominate them today!King of Prussia, PA, May 16, 2023 - Floors USA, flooring experts servicing the Delaware Valley for over 45 years, is launching Floors USA Cares - an initiative to ...
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A Guide to Choosing the Best Bedroom Flooring for Your Home

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While carpeted bedrooms have long been popular, wood-look flooring (whether it be solid hardwood, tile, vinyl, laminate, or engineered hardwood) is trending and likely to remain a popular bedroom floor choice for some time. Another recent trend for bedroom floors is stone-look flooring (either real ...
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Buying and Maintenance Guide to Area Rugs

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Area rugs add style to a room while also providing warmth and coziness. A popular alternative to wall-to-wall carpeting, these practical and attractive rugs allow you to showcase your beautiful floors while protecting high-traffic areas. They can tie together furniture groupings or serve as a ...
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How To Care for Tile Floors: A Guide to Tile Cleaning and Maintenance

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Whether you choose ceramic, porcelain, or natural stone, tile flooring is excellent for many applications. Tiles not only offer a wide variety of color options but are also often environmentally friendly, extremely long-lasting, hypoallergenic, and low-maintenance.Interested in tile and want to ...
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Practical and Stylish: The Top Bathroom Flooring Materials and Trends

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Bathrooms are one of the most used rooms in the house, so functionality is critical — but so are style and design. Like any space in the home, the bathroom should reflect our tastes and the feeling we want it to invoke, from peaceful and restful to reinvigorated and refreshed. With as much time as ...
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A Complete Guide to Maintaining Beautiful Hardwood Floors

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Hardwood flooring is one of the most beautiful and classic types of flooring available, and you can keep it looking stunning for decades with proper care and maintenance. The good news is that it’s not a lot of work. Below, find some simple tips for keeping your hardwood in good shape. We’ve also ...
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Top 2023 Flooring Trends To Increase Your Home’s Resale Value

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As we embark upon a new year, it’s time to look at what’s ahead in flooring style and design. The primary themes we’re seeing for 2023 involve creating warm and cozy spaces full of lived-in texture. Patterns like herringbone, plaid, stripes, and soft earthy looks that incorporate more matte ...
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How To Get Paint Off Your Floor: Tips & Techniques for Each Floor Type

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As hard as you or your painters may try to be neat, painting is a messy process. Most homeowners end up with at least a few paint drops or splatters, and some aren’t even noticeable — at first. The faster you can address a paint spill, the better, but you may be dealing with an older spill you’ve ...
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Choosing The Best Material For Your Living Room Floor

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If you’re thinking of investing in a new living room floor, you’ll be pleased to find there are more options than ever. So many options, in fact, that selecting the best material can feel overwhelming. These days you have an almost limitless number of designs, colors, and styles to choose from. ...
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Luxury vs. Practicality: The Pros and Cons of Marble Flooring

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Many of the benefits of marble flooring can be easily observed: marble is timelessly beautiful and is often considered the height of luxury. Most homeowners strive to incorporate marble into at least one element of their home. While some choose countertops or other small touches, others go for the ...
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Carpet Trends 2023: Comfortable Textures Meet Luxurious Styles

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With all eyes on making the home the most comfortable and beautiful oasis possible, trends for floor coverings in 2023 are likely to involve creating cozy spaces where you can look forward to spending time. Cozy can still be luxurious, however, and carpet is no exception. The latest carpet trends ...
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How to Choose the Best Material for Your Kitchen Floor

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Kitchens have long been a gathering place for friends and family to share memories and good times. In recent years, kitchens have also become design focal points, showcasing fixtures and colors that complement the style of the home. As a result, it may feel like there are infinite options to ...
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Is Vinyl Plank Flooring Right for You? Discover the Pros and Cons

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Vinyl plank flooring, also known as luxury vinyl flooring (LVF or LVP), has seen a rise in popularity in recent years due to its improved construction and more realistic look. It is a much thicker and more rigid flooring than flexible sheet vinyl, fabricated in long planks that most often mimic the ...
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Neutral or Vivid? Light or Dark? How To Choose The Best Flooring Color

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Choosing new flooring can be fun — there are so many styles, textures, and colors to choose from. However, it can also be a little intimidating. After all, this is a choice you’ll be living with for the next several years. So if you’ve been wondering how to select the right hue for your space, you’...
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Flooring 101: Your Total Guide To All The Types of Carpet

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Carpet in Bryn Mawr, PA from Floors USA
While hardwood and laminate have become more popular in recent years, carpet still accounts for more than 60% of retail flooring sales. It’s no wonder, considering the variety of styles and options available. Plus, carpet is well known for being cozy, soft, warm, and great for dampening noise.If ...
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A Complete Laminate Floors Buying Guide: Pros, Cons, and More

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Laminate floors in Radnor, PA from Floors USA
Laminate flooring came out back in the 1970s and has continued to grow in popularity since. Laminate floors are made of layers of wood fibers, followed by a layer designed to mimic the look of wood, tile, and stone, and topped with a durable wear layer. It has become a favorite flooring choice due ...
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Tips From The Flooring Pros: How Long Does It Take To Install Carpet?

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Carpet in Phoenixville, PA from Floors USA
In most cases, carpet installation is relatively straightforward. However, the amount of experience and efficiency of the carpet installation experts you hire will have a significant impact on the length of time it will take to install carpet. The quality of the installation will also influence how ...
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Classic But Never Outdated: Types of Floor Tile

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Floor tile in Collegeville, PA from Floors USA
Tile flooring is an excellent choice for many applications, mainly because there are so many types of floor tiles offering various options to suit the needs of a specific space. In addition, floor tiles are often environmentally friendly, extremely long-lasting, hypoallergenic, and low-maintenance —...
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What Are The Benefits Of Professional Floor Installation?

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What Are The Benefits Of Professional Floor Installation?We all love watching home improvement shows and dreaming of making big changes to our own living spaces. While the Property Brothers make these things look easy, the magic of TV enables them to fast-forward through the process, making even ...
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Maintenance and Care Tips: How To Deep Clean Laminate Floors

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Laminate floors in Wynnewood, PA from Floors USA
Maintenance and Care Tips: How To Deep Clean Laminate FloorsEven with regular daily maintenance, you may find your laminate flooring accumulating residue over time. This residue can be caused by wax buildup, dirt on the bottom of shoes, or even the wrong cleaning products. Over time, this buildup ...
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Create your own unique, personalized custom rugs with Floors USA

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No one can dispute the value of an area rug. It provides comfort underfoot, absorbs sounds, and helps to tie a room together. It is easy to remove to clean, and you can affordably swap it out as it shows wear and tear or you make changes to your decor. While there are many such rugs on the market, ...
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Not so fast, carpet is coming back!

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With the growing popularity of hard surface flooring including large format natural stone and tile, incredibly versatile and authentic looking luxury vinyl wood planks and tiles and trendy new hardwood flooring options might make one think that carpet is yesterday’s news. Not so fast!New ...
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What is the story with carpets and rugs?

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The wide variety of available floor coverings can be a bit overwhelming. Here’s what you need to know about two in particular.Wool is top of the pops natural fabric-wise, in terms of wearability, holding dyes well — and it cleans up in a jiffy. Wool is a staple yarn (small strips spun together) so ...
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What type of flooring is best for your unique project?

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Unlike many other house decor decisions, flooring tends to be long-lasting (about 10 years for carpet, up to 50-100 years for tile or hardwood) and is a major investment in time and money. Your flooring will last through changes in style trends and can influence your home’s value. How do you decide ...
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What types of stone flooring are there?

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Natural stoneFlagstone: Flagstone is a sedimentary rock which is split or cut into layers. Flagstone tiles are most often used outdoors for patios, walkways, steps, and similar applicationsGranite: Granite is very dense, scratch resistant, and occurs naturally in hundreds of varieties of color and ...
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Engineered Hardwood Pros and Cons: Is It Right For You?

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Hardwood floors in Radnor, PA from Floors USA
Engineered Hardwood Pros and Cons: Is It Right For You?There are a lot of misconceptions and misunderstandings out there about engineered hardwood that can make it difficult to know if it’s the right choice for your project. For example, did you know that engineered hardwood is real wood? The ...
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What Is Cumaru? A Unique and Durable Flooring for Hardwood Lovers

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Cumaru hardwood floor in Wayne, PA from Floors USA
What Is Cumaru? A Unique and Durable Flooring for Hardwood LoversYou might think that cumaru sounds like something new and exotic. You would be half right: it is an exotic hardwood from Brazil, but it’s been around for a while. In fact, it was quite popular a decade ago before flooring trends moved ...
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Why Is Luxury Vinyl Tile Flooring So Popular and Will It Work For You?

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LVT floors in Newtown Sqaure, PA from Floors USA
Why Is Luxury Vinyl Tile Flooring So Popular and Will It Work For You?Luxury vinyl flooring has become more popular among homeowners to provide a beautiful, realistic look. Luxury vinyl flooring is very different from the sheet vinyl you may be familiar with and has many benefits. Read on to ...
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What Is the Difference Between Solid Hardwood and Engineered Hardwood?

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Wood floors in Havertown, PA from Floors USA
What Is the Difference Between Solid Hardwood and Engineered Hardwood?You know you want wood floors. The look is classic. It whispers luxury and adds value to your home. But which is better? Engineered hardwood has come a long way in performance and appearance since its debut in the 1960s. In fact, ...
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Fear Not the Marble Floor or Shower Surround!

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Marble tile in Malvern, PA from Floors USA
Etch marks. Stains. Acid cleaners. All of these can strike fear and prevent you from choosing marble for your next home remodeling project or even from buying a house with marble features. It need not be that way.In How I Learned Not to Be Intimidated by My Marble Floors, you can learn the ...
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Natural Stone Flooring—A Trend That Lasts

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Natural stone tile in Blue Bell, PA from Floors USA
Trends come and go, but natural stone flooring comes and goes at a slower rate. The type and style of stone floor you choose today will look appropriate for a long, long time.Whether you need a new entranceway, patio, kitchen, or bathroom floor, choosing the right stone for the right purpose per ...
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