Go Green With Hardwood Floors!

Separate your garbage and recycle paper and plastics. Bring your own reusable bags to the supermarket. Change your lightbulbs to CFLs. Use reusable water bottles. These may be kind to the environment, but they require extra work from us. In fact many of the environmentally friendly steps we can take or products we can use require extra effort on our part or do not give us the same results we have come to be used to.

There is one environmentally friendly step we can take that will actually increase the beauty of our homes or workplaces. Install hardwood flooring! The United States Senate Resolution S. Res. 411recognizes hardwood as an environmentally preferable building material. Here are some facts:

• United States hardwood inventory has more than doubled in the past 50 years.

• Annual hardwood growth exceeds annual hardwood removals by a margin of nearly two to one. 

• Annual growth of hardwoods in the United States has exceeded annual removals since 1952.

• The Senate has mandated that United States hardwoods and products made from these hardwoods must be considered for construction in any program that promotes itself as environmentally friendly.

So, be kind to the environment and let GR Flooring beautify your home with hardwood floors!

Why All The Buzz About Ultra Violet Curing?

Have you heard the buzz about Ultra Violet Curing? It is a fantastic process which allows you to beautify your home with little hassle and GR Flooring is the ONLY company on Long Island who can provide it to you! What is it? A process to refinish your hardwood floors with NO DOWNTIME! Here are a few of the benefits of UV Curing:

• NO DOWN TIME!

• FLOORS CURE INSTANTLY

• FURNITURE AND AREA RUGS CAN BE PLACED BACK THE SAME DAY

• VOC COMPLIANT

• LOW ODOR

• NON-YELLOWING

• PET FRIENDLY

  Call GR Flooring to learn about UV Curing and how we can help make your hardwood floor dreams come true!

Why Natural Wood?

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What is it about natural wood that we find so appealing?  What makes it so luxurious?

Let's take a look at it where it comes from: Nature.  We as humans have a natural attraction to nature.  It's universal just as laughter is.  In a world that is so often plastic and digital, from our computers and televisions to our phones, people want to come home and relax.  They want to be in touch with nature again, be reminded that not everything is cold.

Just as wood carvers take pride in their art, GR Wood Flooring takes great pride in their work.  Installing a natural wood floor, they are transforming your house into something much more.  They are making your house warmer, more natural, transforming it from a house to YOUR home. 

Aesthetics aside, you add value to your home when you add a wood floor. When you were house hunting, what was the first thing your real estate agent did when he saw a carpet?  Take a look underneath to see if there were hard wood floors.

When floors are done properly, they make your house into a home, add value and can last years.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact GR Wood Flooring.

Decorating a Baby's Nursery

Our wonderful little addition to the GR Flooring family has us engrossed in the world of all things baby! We thought this would make a perfect opportunity to share some pictures of nurseries decorated with hardwood flooring. 

There are a number of advantages of decorating a child's room with hardwood floors. First is the mess factor. Babies, infants, and toddlers are messy little humans! Everything from biological matter to play doh will eventually wind up on the floor. Hardwood floors will make clean up easier. Also, hardwood floors make it easier and less expensive to change the look of the room as the child grows up. It is easy to go from Winnie the Pooh to Star Wars without worrying about the matching the color of the carpet. Just change or add a throw rug to make the look complete. Here are some cute rooms we found!

Decorating Rooms with Hardwood Floors for the Holidays!

One of the benefits of having hardwood floors is the ease in changing a rooms decor. As the air turns colder and we enjoy the holiday season, many people will be changing up the look of their home.

One way to instantly change the feel of a room, is to change the rugs. Area rugs in warm, deep colors can help a room feel cozy and inviting. Throw rugs in holiday themes can infuse holiday spirit in to the home. Throw pillows and blankets can coordinate with the rugs to complete the easy transformation. 

Here are some pictures of rooms decorated for the holidays to inspire you!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM 

GR FLOORING!

Thanksgiving and Harwood Floors

So much effort goes into creating a warm and welcoming home for the holidays. Friends and family sit back, relax, and enjoy all the fruits of your labor while you sit nervously hoping no damage comes to your home. You deserve to relax and enjoy too!  Here are some tips to ease your worry!

• Welcome your guests at the door with a basket of warm slippers. Ask that your guests remove their shoes and make themselves comfortable. The slippers provide warmth and encourage relaxation while reducing the amount of dirt tracked inside and scratches from shoes.
• Spills happen! Ask your guests to let you know about spills as soon as they happen to reduce damage to hardwood floors.
• Catch the spills before they hit the hardwood floor. Place a large rug under the dining room table and all areas where people will be eating. Felt pads placed on table and chair legs will also help prevent scratching the floor.
• Clean floors immediately after guests leave. 

If damage does occur, don't worry.  GR Flooring can help! Our UV Curing method can even refinish your floors with NO DOWNTIME! Have questions on how to protect your hardwood flooring?  Give us a call!

From our families to yours, Happy Thanksgiving!

Hardwood Floor Repair After Hurricane Sandy

The residents of Long Island were hit hard by Hurricane Sandy last week.  As a Long Island based business, GR Flooring saw first hand the damage and destruction the storm caused. Our thoughts and best wishes go out to everyone who has been affected.

If your home or business has sustained damage to hardwood flooring, please give us a call. We will determine if the floor needs to be replaced or if it can be repaired. We are the only flooring company on Long Island that utilizes UV Curing which allows us to refinish a floor with NO DOWNTIME!  Let us help you return to life, and business, as usual.