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Flooring Butler | The Benefits of Tile
Tile flooring has long been a popular choice for homeowners due to its timeless elegance, durability, and versatility. Whether you're considering ceramic, porcelain, or natural stone tiles, this flooring option offers numerous benefits, along with the unique challenge...
Flooring Butler | Luxury Vinyl Plank (LVP) vs. Laminate Flooring
When it comes to choosing the right flooring for your home, two popular options often stand out: Luxury Vinyl Plank (LVP) and laminate flooring. Both offer affordability and versatility, but they come with their unique characteristics and advantages. In this...
Flooring Butler | Mastering Hardwood Floor Repairs
Hardwood floors are a timeless and elegant addition to any home, offering both beauty and durability. However, over time, even the most well-maintained hardwood floors may require repairs due to wear and tear, water damage, or other issues. While hardwood floor...
Flooring Butler | Silencing the Squeaks: Causes and Solutions for Annoying Floor Noises
A quiet and peaceful home is the epitome of comfort. Yet, even the most tranquil abode can be disrupted by the persistent annoyance of floor squeaks. These unwelcome noises can turn everyday movements into a cacophony of creaks, but fear not, for we're here to explore...
Flooring Butler | The Beauty and Benefits of Adding Stone to Fireplaces
A fireplace has always been more than just a functional element in a home. It's a symbol of warmth, comfort, and togetherness. While fireplaces have evolved over the years, one timeless enhancement that can elevate their aesthetic appeal and create a cozy atmosphere...
Flooring Butler | Hardwood Refinishing
Wood has always held a special place in our hearts when it comes to flooring. Its natural warmth, classic beauty, and durability make it a timeless choice. However, over time, even the most well-maintained wood floors can begin to lose their luster. This is where the...
Google Review | A Happy Flooring Butler Customer
Deborah, like many homeowners, wanted to transform her living space into something truly special. However, embarking on a home improvement project can sometimes be a daunting prospect. The search for reliable, skilled professionals who can bring your vision to life...
Hardwood Floors | A Wise Investment
When it comes to home improvements, one choice stands out as both a timeless classic and a savvy financial move: hardwood floors. The allure of hardwood is undeniable, with its warm, natural beauty and enduring appeal. In a recent study conducted by the National...
Hardwood Floors | The Challenges in Stain Color and Finish Matching During Repairs
Hardwood floors are the epitome of timeless elegance and enduring beauty. The rich, natural grains and warm hues of hardwood floors have made them a popular choice for homeowners for generations. However, like any aspect of a home, hardwood floors can experience wear...
LVP Flooring | Elevating Your Space with Style and Durability
In the world of flooring, there's a remarkable contender that has been gaining popularity in recent years: Luxury Vinyl Plank, or LVP. LVP offers a winning combination of aesthetics, durability, and affordability, making it a top choice for homeowners looking to...
Welcome to the Flooring Butler blog! Here you will find me rambling on and on about Flooring whether it is hardwood floor, refinishing, luxury, vinyl plank, tile, carpet, showers, backsplash, fireplaces, commercial flooring, epoxy floors, and much much more.
I love to talk about flooring, especially hardwood flooring. Hardwood flooring is very intricate and detailed. From the prep work down to the actual sanding the process of applying the stain and finish coats is very interesting to me. If you want to learn more about that you can find articles, talking about the process, what to expect, the timeline, the hazards, and the benefits of hardwood floor refinishing
Here you can also hear me talk about carpets, the benefits of carpet, some projects where we have installed carpet, and some warnings of how to avoid poor carpet installation. A summary of the benefits of Carpet would include carpet. You can install over an uneven surface . So if your subfloor has cracks from foundation movement, is unlevel, is not flat, you can install carpet, and it will accommodate those imperfections of the subfloor. Carpet is also nice for warmth and comfort.
Tile is also fun to talk about- especially with showers. There is a lot of details when installing a shower well so that it is 100% waterproof. If you want to read more about how to waterproof a shower, read more in our blog!
Luxury vinyl plank is the hot item these days, but is not a perfect product and many floor, inspectors and flooring stores that I know fear the day when luxury vinyl plank begins to fail. You can read more about this in our blog, but a quick summary is luxury vinyl plank is imperfect, because it is not physically connected to the substrate, it is put upon.hardwood, tile, and carpet are fixed to the subfloor and can be sanded or leveled by putting more or less mortar to accommodate any insulation in the floor especially when a home settles.
Backslashes are a very easy project for us typically only takes part of a day to complete. Just as a test to see if anyone is reading this, if you mention this article, the first two people will get free labor to install a backsplash of your choice. You will provide the tile and we will provide the installation for free.
Additionally, you will find in our blog that we share summaries of projects we have completed with pictures and videos to help show what it is like working with Flooring Butler . What a typical job looks like in your home we think these articles are especially helpful because you can see what a certain project will look like For you and you can plan accordingly. If there is anything you would like us to write about in the Flooring world or anything else, we encourage you to send a text to 816-520-0690 and we will start writing articles about that topic.
Again, I encourage you to read our blog, especially focused on hardwood floor refinishing as that is the service that we typically do for people here in Kansas City what we would love to do for you. Hardwood floor refinishing is also a great benefit to the value of your home. A study conducted by the national Association of realtors found that hardwood floor refinishing yields 147% return the money you spend to complete it. They also found that adding hardwood floors to your home yields a 100%+ return
When you go to our blog, you will be immersed in a plethora of articles that teach you about Flooring. You will learn about subfloor prep, demolition, installation, tips, and tricks, things to worry about, how to remove squeaks, how to select your favorite, Flooring, You will see links to videos where you can watch us do all of the things stated above.
Our blog section will be especially helpful for the DIY people, other flooring, companies, who want to learn from our experience, and people doing research to figure out what type of flooring they want to put in their own home. Well, this will be helpful for everyone, the best course of action would be to call us at 816-520-0690 and we will, be able to talk through your project with you and help you figure out what course of action will be best.
You might be asking when is the blog section available? I would answer that it is already available and will continue to grow as we produce more blog articles and submit helpful information. Since we are on the Internet, you can read our blog at any time and any place.
We wrote this blog, because, in part, because Google told us to do so. Additionally, we thought it would be fun to document our jobs in longer detail for the benefit of prospective customers and employees of Flooring Butler . You wrote it for Google because they tell us they like content on our website so we can rank higher some more people will find us. we wrote it for our customers so they can have helpful information to make their flooring decision easier and we believe in the law of reciprocity so when we help them they want to work with us. And we wrote it for our employees so they can see an experience past jobs. Learn lessons that we’ve already learned and save us from making the same mistakes twice.
I wrote this blog by a few means. I wrote a handful of articles through old-fashioned typing on a keyboard and documenting my experience. Primarily, I write blog articles by turning on voice to text and talking about projects and things I am interested in. Many people use AI to generate articles quickly, but often it is not original content.
I was going to leave you with one thing, I would encourage you to check out our blog articles about hardwood floor refinishing in Kansas City. Hardwood floor refinishing is one of the most common services we offer in the Kansas City area and we are exceptional at it. Hardwood refinishing is a skill that involves many crucial elements that have to be done correctly and correct times. We have had a handful of customers try to refinish their hardwood floors in Kansas City but we’re not happy with the result. As you educate yourself on hardwood floor refinishing in Kansas City, we encourage you to consider us, your Flooring Butler to serve you and getting your floors updated and add a new layer of protection.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and we look forward to serving you soon!