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The Landlord's Guide: Choosing the Perfect Carpets for Rental Properties

As a landlord, one of your top priorities is to create a welcoming and comfortable living space for your tenants. When it comes to flooring, carpets are a popular choice for their warmth, comfort, and aesthetic appeal. However, selecting the right carpets for rental properties requires careful consideration to ensure durability, easy maintenance, and tenant satisfaction. Whether you're updating existing flooring or outfitting a new rental unit, our guide will help you navigate the process of cho...

Essential Carpet Care: A General Guide to Maintenance

Carpets add warmth and comfort to our homes, but to keep them looking their best, regular maintenance is essential. While we like to offer some general advice on carpet care, it's crucial to remember that each carpet supplier may have slightly different guidelines. Always refer to your specific supplier's recommendations for the best results.Regular Vacuuming Start with the basics – vacuum your carpet regularly to remove dirt, dust, and debris. Aim for at least once a week in low-traffic ...

Should You Hire A Contractor To Install New Flooring?

You’ll need prior experience installing floors. If you don’t have any experience with installing carpet or hardwood floors, we recommend leaving the work to the professionals. You’ll save more money in the long run by having a contractor install your new flooring rather than trying to do it yourself and making costly mistakes. Many of the hardwood flooring repairs that homeowners face could have been prevented with proper hardwood flooring and carpet installation.You should hire a professi...

6 Dirty Secrets About Your Carpet

Walking on fresh, clean, plush carpet is a nostalgic feeling. It’s the reason we spend time and money on the floors in our home. It’s the #1 filter in your house; capturing pollen, fungi, bacteria, chemicals, and smoke residue. It insulates during temperature changes and muffles noise in your home. But carpet has a dirty side that needs to be acknowledged. Here are 6 Dirty Secrets About Your Carpet.1) BugsBugs are everywhere and of course they want to come into your home. There is a feast av...

How To Start A New Project

Any remodelling project can seem overwhelming, but it’s guaranteed to go more smoothly if you know a of couple insider tricks. Whether you’re attempting a small or large home project, learning how to plan for it is a matter of understanding the task by finding inspiration, planning a budget, choosing the right materials, and taking care of any last details.Get InspiredThe first step to starting a home project is finding your inspiration. Once you’ve started to think about renovating, odds ...

Offering the best of both worlds

Big enough to have access to all the best brands and also small enough to be agile, Hamilton’s LK Flooring Direct provides flexibility and expert craftsmanship on its projects.“That’s our niche and where we really stand out,” says LK Flooring Direct managing director Louis Lin. “We get great satisfaction from seeing a project through, from finding the best solution initially to that final transformation that the right flooring brings to...

Nylon Carpet: Pros And Cons

Nylon is the most popular fiber type in the residential carpet industry today. It has a solid reputation for being durable, relatively easy to maintain and is highly sought after. That being said, let’s dive into the useful details to help you decide if it’s the right choice for you!History of Nylon Carpet Nylon was invented in 1935 by Wallace Hume Carothers, head of research at DuPont. Its first commercial use was in women’s stockings in 1939, but it was also being used in fishing line an...

10 tips for choosing the right carpet

1. Choosing the right colour Colour is largely responsible for creating the mood of a room – flooring is the second largest area after your walls. If you are renovating or building new, start from the floor up, picking the colour of your carpet first. This will give you a base palette to work from in terms of choosing colour for everything else in your home from walls to tiles/hard flooring to furniture. If you’re only re-carpeting, you’ll want your carpet to work back with the wall colour...

Laminate vs Carpet Flooring

Many people have pondered the comparison of laminate vs. carpet. Which one is better to use? Or, rather, which is better for your specific needs?There are plenty of variables from which to choose when deciding between picking a laminate floor or a carpet floor. From room of the house and how it’s going to be used, to the people most likely to occupy the room in which you’re installing the floor, there are many factors from which to choose.Cost Let’s get the topic of cost out of the wa...

The best carpets for hay fever sufferers – and which to avoid

We all look forward to summer – but for some it can be a challenging time. Hay fever season usually rolls around in late summer and can be difficult for people across NZ. Open windows to let in a warm summer breeze can open your home up to unwelcome visitors much smaller and harder to control than the occasional bee- don’t let these allergens will make themselves at home.Why do carpets cause hay fever? Pollen has a way of finding its way into every corner of your home. Carried in on sho...

Best Flooring Options For The Nursery

When planning your baby’s nursery, things such as the crib, paint color and changing table come to mind. But what about the flooring? It’s important to make sure your baby’s room has the right flooring, as it can make a huge impact in their development. First, we’ll walk through the things to consider, the best options and then the options to avoid. Let’s get started!Things To Consider HealthFirst and foremost, you want to put the health of your child above all. Things like dirt and al...

5 Myths About Laminate Flooring

Even though it has been around for quite a while now, there have been a lot of strange ideas that people have developed concerning laminate flooring. If you’re thinking about getting new floors, and are considering laminate flooring for your home, don’t you think it’s time you got the real facts about laminate flooring? Let’s take a closer look at these silly myths.Myth #1: Laminate Isn’t Durable and is Easily Damaged One of the main things you might have heard about laminate floo...

5 Reasons Why You Should Seek Professional Carpet Cleaning

Should I clean the carpet myself or seek professional carpet cleaning services? This is a very common question that residents intending to clean the carpet ask. Some individuals may opt to undertake the activity by themselves as a way of cutting costs; others believe that it is more convenient, while some may do so because of lack of sufficient knowledge. Truth is that there is always a higher chance of ruining the carpet if not done properly, and this is why it is always advisable to seek the s...