LVT or Luxury Vinyl Tile; a product designed to fail sooner than your (buyer) plan. LVT no matter how you sell it, ends up in your local landfill. Bonus, the chemicals used are regulated by China and Vietnam. To be clear China is not the problem. Local misinformation and confusion far out weigh any single countries contribution. LVT helps shareholder equity replace homeowner equity.
Intended only for large projects, engineered floors never received residential attention until the market needed a replacement for carpet. The floor cover leasing industry was born of parents’ cheap labor and worthless warranty. All of them, worthless over time. Real wood sits in every million dollar home, why? Because it is the best deal- seriously, do not buy this garbage. Ask the person selling it to you their commission or kick back from manufacturer?
The best part about the SYP Direct philosophy, it is so easy; “One House, One Floor”. We have grown our business organically with referrals and repeat business. Old school customer service, personal and without any sales pressure. In fact, most of the time we are validating what you already knew but because of all the nonsense you hear when shopping for a floor you begin to think; “is laminate just as good as real wood”? […]
Green, eco-friendly floors are about longevity Our company offers homeowners the power to choose an investment versus a product. The difference? An investment increases in value when a product is designed to wear out and then replaced. One outlives the house, the others on average, about 7 years. So I ask, which is the green floor? But wait don't you cut down trees to get real wood? Yes, once and it does not involved any [...]
Sustainable timber, i.e., timber that has been harvested and replenished which may occur naturally or farmed. ‘Sustainable Forestry’, however, involves more than just planting a tree when you cut one down. Sustainable timber management or forestry means doing no ecological damage to the surrounding environment. Plant a tree To those who want to help stop Global Warming- buy a real wood floor and plant a tree. Healthy, sustainably harvested timber creates forest that become more [...]
Why do people buy ‘single use’ floors? (A product designed with planned obsolescence ridiculous promises and useless warranties.) LVT MARKETING- Waterproof- Lifetime Warranty-and Luxury in the name. Homeowners buy it because the marketing is amazing and frankly trying to find real wood wears them out over time. Hand it to the majors, they've created a repeat customer product line; a new one about every decade or so. The industry is a mess everyone wants fake [...]
Reclaimed or salvaged? What is the difference between reclaimed and salvaged? If you were in the flooring industry someone might say $15 a square foot, and they wouldn't be far off. So, if you're shopping for reclaimed oak or heart pine it's important to know what you're looking at it's important to know where it came from or its provenance. Salvaged Heart Pine Accent Walls Salvaged is something like an old floor being taken up [...]
Laminate is not wood, nor is it a floor. A photocopy of wood and a temporary floor cover, best define laminate. Laminate is made with synthetic materials or very thinly sliced pieces of wood.
Why Are VOCs Still Used? What a great question? The answer is that very few of us know they exist in almost everything manufactured for mass merchandising. Volatile Organic Chemicals (VOCs) can be used to produce products and created as biproducts. VOC's can be harmless; they can be dangerous but the majority of just the "unknown" as is not enough information to make a determination. Paint, wood-finishing products, lacquers, hydraulic fluids, petroleum fuels, adhesives, pesticides, [...]
What other floors are green, aka eco-friendly? Well, dirt and most concrete are certainly in the category, but what about the things that sit on top of those two? No matter what else you hear while shopping, solid 3/4 floors should outlive the house, i.e., be salvaged one day. On the other hand, all 'floor covers' with very few exceptions, everything else ends up in a landfill. Seriously, the bathroom counter-top you see here was [...]
Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) is a term used to refer to organic chemical compounds that evaporate while drying (volatile). Products that contain VOCs release vapors during use and storage that are often harmful to both humans and the environment.