Is it Safe To Buy Hardwood Flooring Online?
When homeowners, builders, and business owners in the greater Houston area are shopping for top-quality flooring, the flooring search will most likely begin online! After all, we designed the Roberts Carpet & Fine Floors website to help our customers move their online flooring search forward with valuable information, current product inventory, and the innovative Roomvo visualizer tool. However, there are a few key points why buying flooring online is not recommended in order to avoid costly and time-consuming mistakes:
Subfloor Assessment
Not every product is suitable for your subfloor, specific household conditions, or the rooms where you want new floors. Your subfloor needs to be professionally assessed before you purchase a flooring product to ensure proper installation and long-term premium performance in the rooms.
Buying the Correct Amount of Flooring
When purchasing flooring online, you are responsible for buying the correct amount of flooring. The last thing you want is to come up short or purchase too much flooring. Our flooring experts provide complementary measures to help you budget accordingly, purchase the accurate amount of flooring, and look for complications that may arise from tricky floorplans.
Professional Installation
Buying from a retailer that is also handling installation will ensure greater accountability for materials and installation than buying from an online seller and hiring a separate contractor for installation.
Reputation in the Flooring Industry
At Roberts Carpets & Fine Floors, our reputation means everything. Providing outstanding flooring, service, and installation is what our business is built on! When you purchase flooring from a company in the community who cares about you, we go the extra mile to help you select products you love, complete your project the right way, and work together to navigate any issues. You are less likely to receive these considerations from an online flooring retailer.
Subfloor Assessment
Not every product is suitable for your subfloor, specific household conditions, or the rooms where you want new floors. Your subfloor needs to be professionally assessed before you purchase a flooring product to ensure proper installation and long-term premium performance in the rooms.
Buying the Correct Amount of Flooring
When purchasing flooring online, you are responsible for buying the correct amount of flooring. The last thing you want is to come up short or purchase too much flooring. Our flooring experts provide complementary measures to help you budget accordingly, purchase the accurate amount of flooring, and look for complications that may arise from tricky floorplans.
Professional Installation
Buying from a retailer that is also handling installation will ensure greater accountability for materials and installation than buying from an online seller and hiring a separate contractor for installation.
Reputation in the Flooring Industry
At Roberts Carpets & Fine Floors, our reputation means everything. Providing outstanding flooring, service, and installation is what our business is built on! When you purchase flooring from a company in the community who cares about you, we go the extra mile to help you select products you love, complete your project the right way, and work together to navigate any issues. You are less likely to receive these considerations from an online flooring retailer.
Is It Important to Go In-Store to Buy New Flooring?
Whether you are interested in buying new hardwood flooring, tile, luxury vinyl flooring, laminate flooring, or even purchasing new carpet, we always believe that it is better to buy new flooring in-store! Here are some of the best reasons why you should visit Roberts Carpet & Fine Floors in person:
Computer Screens Don't Do Justice!
Website color temperature and computer screen settings can greatly affect the way that flooring appears before you see it in person. Come to our showroom to make sure that you love the color, texture, finish, or pattern before your purchase!
Quality Materials
Online retailers focus on low prices, not the highest quality materials. Especially for hardwood, luxury vinyl, and laminate planks, your purchase can be susceptible to lower quality base layers, adhesives between layers, protective coatings, and with hardwood, inferior timber. Shopping for high-quality planks in our showroom will eliminate delamination, less wear, unwanted variability, structural instability, and tear-outs down the line.
Take A Sample Home!
When you visit our showroom, you can also take home flooring samples of your favorite styles first. This way you can balance natural lighting, artificial lighting, and color scheme before purchasing and potentially realizing that a favorite flooring option is not actually a great match for your unique space.
Computer Screens Don't Do Justice!
Website color temperature and computer screen settings can greatly affect the way that flooring appears before you see it in person. Come to our showroom to make sure that you love the color, texture, finish, or pattern before your purchase!
Quality Materials
Online retailers focus on low prices, not the highest quality materials. Especially for hardwood, luxury vinyl, and laminate planks, your purchase can be susceptible to lower quality base layers, adhesives between layers, protective coatings, and with hardwood, inferior timber. Shopping for high-quality planks in our showroom will eliminate delamination, less wear, unwanted variability, structural instability, and tear-outs down the line.
Take A Sample Home!
When you visit our showroom, you can also take home flooring samples of your favorite styles first. This way you can balance natural lighting, artificial lighting, and color scheme before purchasing and potentially realizing that a favorite flooring option is not actually a great match for your unique space.
