American Wood Flooring Keeps Up With All Of The Latest Trends

Although we really only know each other through doing business with each other, I consider Andy Dunning of American Wood Flooring, located in the SuperTarget-anchored Northwood Shopping Center (next to Marshall’s) on Bruce B Downs (BBD) Blvd., to be a good friend. Andy is easy to work with, pays his bills and, best of all, he always gets great results from advertising in both our New Tampa and Wesley Chapel issues (he does alternate markets sometimes) and, especially, whenever we run another article about his business.

“The first article you did about me when we first opened here in Wesley Chapel (almost ten years ago) generated something like $70,000 in orders,” Andy has told not only me, but his customers, too. “And, every story has generated thousands of dollars in new orders.” He adds, “If you’re in New Tampa or Wesley Chapel and want to improve the look of your home, we have everything you need to help you keep up with all of the latest trends in flooring, whether you’re looking for real hardwood, laminate, porcelain tile or carpeting.”

And, why shouldn’t he get results? Andy runs the Wesley Chapel store as part of a family business with two locations and nearly a quarter-century of experience. He and his father (Pat) and stepmom (Marcia) have prices that Andy promises are always competitive with the so-called “super stores” and he and his family stand behind everything they sell.

Andy says, “This is still an independent, family-owned company that has been selling and installing floors in the Tampa Bay area for 23 years,” when Pat and Marcia opened the original store on U.S. 19 in New Port Richey.

That location moved to the corner of Mitchell Blvd. and Little Rd. in 2005 in the Trinity area. The Wesley Chapel/New Tampa location has been open for almost a decade and both stores offer a wide variety of flooring options to add extra appeal to any home.

So, What About Those Latest Trends?

“The most popular items people come in looking for are still the wood-look ceramic tile, which combines the rich, beautiful look of real wood and the durability of tile, and hand-scraped, or ‘distressed’ finish hardwood flooring,” Andy says. He notes that he sells a lot of the Barista Collection by Shaw wood-look tile and the hand-scraped “American Scrape” wood flooring by Armstrong.

He also says that wood-look tile has the advantage of being water resistant (“which can be important in flood situations”) and that the pre-scratched wood also is a great floor in homes with kids, since any “accidents” that may happen just add more “character” to the “already dinged up” look of the flooring.

Two of the hot trends in laminate flooring are the Tarkett vinyl planks, which Andy says are quieter than most laminate floors (“There’s no hollow sound”), and the Alloc laminate floors, which have a locking mechanism built into the laminate and Alloc is therefore one of the few laminate companies to offer a lifetime limited warranty on topical moisture. “If a flower pot full of water was to spill on it, no problem,” Andy says. American Wood Flooring also carries the popular Freedom collection laminate by Shaw.

“We’re proud that so many of the products we carry, like Shaw, are ‘Made in America,’ rather than in China or Germany,” Andy says. “Yes, our exotic hardwoods are from Brazil and we do carry some German and Chinese products, but a lot of people are really looking for that ‘Made in America’ label these days.”

Another hot imported commodity at the store is the Italian porcelain by Happy Floors, which comes in 12” x 24” rectangles, instead of the traditional squares, which normally only go up to 20” x 20” — with many smaller sizes available, but usually no bigger.

You Deserve Great Service AND Great Prices!

All of the prices per square foot Andy will quote you at American Wood Flooring include delivery, installation, moving all of your furniture around for you, removal of your old carpeting, tile or flooring (with no charge for disposing of it) and, “all of our installers are in-house and have been certified to install Armstrong, Bruce and the other major manufacturers’ flooring,” Andy says. “We also give you a free cleaning kit and free felt pads to keep your furniture from scratching the floor. A lot of places charge extra for many of those same services, so our prices are even better than they seem.”

Oh, and there’s never sales tax charged on the floors (because the government doesn’t collect sales tax for major home improvements), as long as you have American Wood Flooring install it.

“We also warranty all of the floors we install for as long as you own your home,” Andy says. “Unlike the major home store retailers, the warranty is with us. At Lowe’s or Home Depot, the warranty is from the installer, not the store.”

That can lead to unexpected problems. Those warranties can be important, especially with laminate floors, which (unlike hardwood floors) are not glued to your concrete slab.

And if that isn’t enough, Andy says that, in addition to his already-competitive prices, there are always bargains to be had at American Wood Flooring, because, “We’re always being offered specials by the different manufacturers.”

And yes, American Wood Flooring does carry and install both carpet and tile, as well as wood and laminate floors.

American Wood Flooring’s Wesley Chapel showroom is located at 1285 BBD Blvd. The store is open Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on Sunday.

For more information, visit AmericanWoodFlooringFL.com, or call 991-7999. And don’t forget to ask about the special financing available — 12 months with 0% interest (with approved credit).