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Engineered Bamboo Flooring

If a floor ever evoked a sense of joy and happiness, Natural Fossilized® Hybrid™ engineered hardwood flooring is the one. A perfect golden honey color, this floor instantly brightens living spaces like a fresh bouquet of summer flowers. The versatile color is your go-to option for a clean and simple style, visually opening up small spaces, or creating a crisp modern look. Natural bamboo flooring is your blank canvas for making those happy family memories you’ll cherish forever.

Cali Vinyl Pro Classic is meticulously designed to outperform in even the most demanding environments. Any climate, any grade, any room in the home with faster installations, and 100% waterproofing. Rugged to the bone, each plank is fortified by GeoCore™ , a fortifying backbone of limestone composite for superior structural stability.

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Hardwood Flooring
Our company was founded on the belief that every home should reflect the individual styles and personalities of its homeowners. Whether adding a deck for cozy get-togethers or building an addition to make room for a new family member, JMH Home Improvements is dedicated to helping you create your dream home environment.
Built from the ground up, JMH began his carpentry business as an entrepreneurial adventure. With his innate ability to create masterpieces from scratch, JMH Home Improvements quickly developed into a successful family business.
Since founding JMH Home Improvements, JMH continues to dedicate his time and resources to making every client happy with each finished product. Services have expanded to include all levels of home improvements, repairs and enhancements – designing decks, finishing basements, building custom furniture and much more. The unique skill set and hands-on experience JMH brings to every project is unmatched.

Common HardWood Flooring Materials

• • HardWood Flooring Stile

  

  Solid hardwood floors are made of planks milled from a single piece of timber. Solid hardwood floors were originally used for structural purposes, being installed perpendicular to the wooden support beams of a building known as joists or bearers. With the increased use of concrete as a subfloor in some parts of the world, engineered wood flooring has gained some popularity. However, solid wood floors are still common and popular. Solid wood floors have a thicker wear surface and can be sanded and finished more times than an engineered wood floor. It is not uncommon for homes in New England, Eastern Canada, and Europe to have the original solid wood floor still in use today.

   

   

  • Laminate Flooring Stile

  There are many benefits to choosing a laminate floor over other types of flooring. Laminate flooring is quite versatile and durable. Due to laminate flooring being a printed strip of vinyl over a composite board many textures and styles of flooring can be replicated. Recently laminate floors have seen success in simulating stone and tile patterns as well as wood.

  Cleaning laminate floors is easy and comparable to cleaning other hard surfaces such as hardwood floors. It is generally not recommended to mop laminate floors as this has been shown to cause damage by soaking into the composite portion which allows warping over time. Most manufacturers suggest using dry methods such as brooms to clean with occasional wet cleaning with more specialized mop-type products that do not leave excessive water on the flooring.

  Installation is a large benefit of choosing laminate flooring. A generally handy person is well equipped to install laminate flooring as the locking and floating aspects of laminate floor are mostly self-explanatory. Also, due to the ease of installation, having professional flooring contractors install this type of floor is less expensive than other types of flooring such as tile or hardwood.

   

  • Vinyl Flooring Stile

  

  Vinyl floors are available in either tile or sheet form for both commercial and residential use. Resilient flooring accounts for about 12 percent of all floor covering sold in the United States. (Other major categories include carpet, ceramic tile, hardwood and laminate.) New technologies in recent years have improved vinyl’s performance – especially in the areas of durability against rips, tears and gouges. Because resilient floors are durable, easier to maintain and more moisture-resistant than many alternative materials, vinyl is preferred for use in residential kitchens and bathrooms, as well as in healthcare facilities, and commercial and retail establishments.

  In general, there are two types of vinyl flooring: sheet flooring and tile. In addition, there are two basic categories of vinyl tile – solid vinyl and vinyl composition – and three basic categories of vinyl sheet flooring – homogeneous, inlaid and layered composite. These products differ in manufacturing process and content. In fact, some floors contain as much as 55 percent vinyl (polyvinyl chloride or PVC) while others may contain as little as 11 percent vinyl, yet each of these floors is referred to as “vinyl flooring.” (In addition to vinyl resin, vinyl floors typically contain fillers, plasticizers, stabilizers and pigments.)

   

  • Engineered Wood Flooring
  Engineered wood flooring consists of two or more layers of wood adhered together to form a plank. Typically, engineered wood flooring uses a thin layer (lamella) of a more expensive wood bonded to a core constructed from cheaper wood. The increased stability of engineered wood is achieved by running each layer at a 90° angle to the layer above. This stability makes it a universal product that can be installed over all types of subfloors above, below or on grade. Engineered wood is the most common type of wood flooring in Europe and has been growing in popularity in North America[2].The several different categories of engineered wood flooring include:
  Vertical siding may have a cover over the joint: board and batten, popular in American wooden Carpenter Gothic houses; or less commonly behind the joint called batten and board or reversed board and batten.All-timber-wood floors made from multiple layers of sawn wood. Most engineered wood flooring is in this category, and does not use rotary-peeled veneer, composite wood (such as HDF), or plastic in their construction.
  Veneer floors use a thin layer of wood over a core that is commonly a composite wood product.
  Acrylic-impregnated wood flooring uses a layer of wood that is impregnated with liquid acrylic then hardened using a proprietary process.
  Laminate and vinyl floors are often confused with engineered wood floors, but are not; laminate uses an image of wood on its surface, while vinyl flooring is plastic formed to look like wood.

  

  

  You wont find to many people that are a Master at all four different parts of the trade or know everything there is to know about carpentry. But you will find people who are a Master Journeyman in at least one maybe two of these categories.

  Education-In the carpentry trade it takes at least 4 years of school and on the job training to become a certified skilled Journeyman. Within the four years apprentices are taught how to use power tools hand tools at the beginning. Then apprentices are taught to frame walls sheetrock do drop ceilings and concrete forms. Later they will learn how to read blue prints and have some leadership training.