When you are looking for the best flooring for your home, where do you look? A lot of people look online to find answers. Some will ask people they know and some will go to the box stores to look around since there are no sales men to ask you questions. Other ways are to look for bloggers online and see what their experience has been with a flooring product. Many like the ones that may read this blog take time to do their own research to find great flooring. Most people are not aware that flooring technology is always changing and manufacturers are trying to make better flooring that will perform better than the other guy making the same flooring. You just may not be able to find out about it unless you find the right person or place to have it. Really, the best place to look will be your local flooring retail store. Many of the retail stores are different from each other and carry different products.
If you want the better performing flooring, box stores are not going to be the place to find it. Box stores have flooring that meets three characteristics. It has to be a product that is popular. The colors are the most popular across the country and are more common. The product has to be cost effective. The products are not always cheap, but are usually less expensive than retail store products. Many times they are made specifically for box stores. To do that, they are made differently than the products that you find at the retail store. It could be made slightly different or use materials that are not as expensive. The other thing is that it has to be able to sell. It has to be products that have been out in the industry for a while. Usually they are easily recognized such as brand names or selling points.
Retail stores are different. They sell products that are not as common and can be cutting edge flooring technology. Local stores such as BPS Southeast Flooring are continually looking for flooring products that will out perform what other stores carry. Whether it is from lesser known brands to brand new manufacturing processes, local stores look for the best flooring products. When you go to a flooring store, you may not find familiar brand names. There are numerous flooring companies that have come into existence over the past few years that have created processes and products that are better than the brand names you are familiar with.
Many of the newer companies have been started by engineers or former employees of larger established companies that had different visions of how things were to be made. Others have come into existence from manufacturers that have found new ways to make products better with different partners. All of them looking to make better flooring products and to create something new and exciting. There are wood flooring products now that are scratch proof to pets and waterproof. There are carpets that are more durable and softer than silk.
Because retail stores provide flooring products that are so cutting edge, they tend to be more expensive and less available. You won't find them in every flooring store and not every store will want to carry something they are not sure how well it will sell. You may also have to wait a little longer to get your product once you order it. The flooring stores are not like box stores that keep huge inventory available always or can shift it from other stores. Distributors and the manufacturers keep as much as they can on hand and order what they expect to sell. They may get surprised at something that sells better than expected so they may get low on a certain color or product and you will have to wait for more inventory to come in.
In the end, you will find your best flooring products in your local flooring store. A good flooring representative in the store should be able to help you find the right product for your home. At BPS Southeast Flooring, it is important that all your questions get answered and that you are happy with the product you select. There is no brand that is more important to us than another. There is no product in our showroom that we won't stand behind. You are making a huge investment into your home, and you should be excited about it and want to show all your friends and family how beautiful it is once it is installed.
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