I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase all that glitters isn’t gold before. Well all flooring websites and flooring information centers aren’t flooring contractors. Many use websites and webpage’s strictly to monetize and

It doesn’t seem like it, but Garlason’s Fine hardwood Flooring will have 30 years in servicing Santa Clara County on April 7th 2011. I’m sure I’ve answered the phone a million times if I answered it once for our free estimates, wood specie questions, and I want to refinish the floors myself questions. The latter

Engineered flooring is composed of two or more core layers of substrate (usually plywood) with the sheets alternating direction between layers to resist expansion and contraction. The flooring face is the solid exposed core and is virtually available in just about any wood species. However, this top layers thickness

I love strawberries and shortcake and totally forget about sugar, calories and all that jazz when I’m eating my favorite dessert. It’s not like I eat dessert every day, and I do workout (sometimes) and I’m getting better about my gym routine. But hey, I play tennis two to three times a week, so that

You hear the word exotic used often in our business dealing with wood species. But many times we take for granted you know where these woods come from. The truth is we know very little about many of the new species that has been taking the market

and how this may very well benefit you, the customer. As a third generation flooring contractor I’ve always seen my uncle’s work from a home office. However, I remember saying to myself many times as well as discuss it with my friends that when I became a contractor I was going to have a Hugh

I have tremendous respect for our clients, but there was a time I took them for granted. Growing companies sometimes do this, not because we lose sight of respect for the client, but mainly because so many other pressing requirements grab our focus as business becomes more challenging. We should always

I wonder how many times I have refused to look at a map continuing to say I know where I’m going, only to get further lost thus delaying my arrival to the destination. Well, thanks to new technology like Google or Garmond type devices I won’t be kicking myself for my past errors anymore. I may have