Where to Buy Hardwood Floors Online
While troubling for many, the worldwide economic situation and corresponding slowdown in construction and remodeling has made this a great time to purchase hardwood flooring. For instance, iFloor’s bankruptcy proceedings gave rise to deep discounts from Lumber Liquidators on bulk stock they bought at the liquidation auction.
At this point, almost all of the online hardwood flooring stores are running some type of sale or discount to win your business. Couple that with the fact that their regular prices are at least 20% below local retail stores, and you’ve got a winning combination for buying wood floors and adding value to your home.
Here’s our short list of online stores to comparison shop and make your hardwood purchase. Never ordered hardwoods online before? Don’t worry! Each of these stores makes the task extremely simple, even arranging the shipping right to your door.
Online Hardwood Flooring Stores
LumberLiquidators.com – Made famous by Ty Pennington and Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Lumber Liquidators is the most popular online hardwood flooring site. We’re huge fans of their Bellawood floors, especially Brazillian Cherry and Brazillian Walnut varieties we’ve installed. Lumber Liquidators keeps prices down by purchasing in large bulk quantities and offering limited hardwood brands (which is fine by us – they’re brands are great). Selection includes hardwood, bamboo, engineered lumber, standard 3/4″ and 3/8″ boards, unfinished, prefinished and a whole lot more.
FastFloors.com – With more than two dozen brands offerred, Fast Floors offers unparalleled selection in hardwoods. They offer a 110% price match guarantee (but only on brands they carry, not similar products from other brands). Shop fast floors for cork, bamboo, exotic hardwoods, engineered and solid woods, prefinished and unfinished, and more. Fast Floors offers virtually every type of hardfloor flooring available.
SuperFloorCenter.com – Super Floor Center is a recent entrant in the online flooring business, but offers some compelling deals with a reasonably large selection. Our favorite part of their site: SFC will send you a free sample of any flooring they offer. Seriously – they’ll even ship it for free. That’s a great deal if you’re trying to choose between hardwoods to get the perfect look for a room.
Wood Flooring Installation Tools
Once you get the wood, we’ve gotcha covered for the tools. Check out our complete list of tools required for hardwood flooring installation, including our recommendations for every tool you’ll need to get this job done!
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May 20th, 2009 11:59 am
Thanks for the links. I knew about Lumber Liquidators, but will now check out the other two. I definately have to replace the floors of the Stone House in the Living Room so these will come in hand.
May 30th, 2009 9:10 am
I recently got an e-mail from iFloor, since I had ordered samples from them a couple of years ago. They claim to be out of bankruptcy and a part of a larger company that owns or controls over 240,000 acres of forest and 30 factories worldwide. They are almost totally e-based because the 30 iFloor stores had been closed before the bankruptcy auction. Their headquarters appears to be in Tukwila, Wa.
I haven’t looked too far into their new website but it would appear to me that they intend to quickly become a major player in the online flooring world again. Comments? (I am in no way affiliated with iFloor. I’m just wanting to get the facts straight.)
March 5th, 2010 2:14 pm
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