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And so sometimes, uh, the key to working in older houses, and a lot of the different franchi- or, you know, the business owners who maybe own different, uh, instances of Floor Coverings International in the Metro Detroit area, we're trained specifically on some of these older homes to educate our clients about what may be lurking under their existing floor coverings so that we can appropriately scope projects from the beginning without surprises coming up.

And to that end, as we start to pull things up, we've found a number of cases where maybe, uh, layers of floor go deeper than we thought, or maybe we, um, you would think that the subfloor would be consistent all the way across the home, but it's not.

It could be different materials or made at different, you know, you know, placed at different levels.

So the key there is to be ready to go to your back pocket to find exactly the right transition to make things as seamless as possible, or plan from the get-go to do the work required so that we're ready to make things seamless and functional for our clients at the end of the project.

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both solid and engineered, carpet.

When you talk about transitions, what issues will people run into in older houses when they want to put a new floor down with regard to the transitions?

That's a great question.

One of the things that we see in older houses is there's often older layers of flooring underneath whatever we're working on.

And so Sometimes the key to working in older houses and a lot of the different franchise or the business owners who maybe own different instances of floor coverings international in the Metro Detroit area, we're trained specifically on some of these older homes to educate our clients about what may be lurking under their existing floor coverings so that we can appropriately scope projects from the beginning without surprises coming up.

And to that end, as we start to pull things up, we've found a number of cases where Maybe layers of floor go deeper than we thought, or maybe you would think that the subfloor would be consistent all the way across the home, but it's not.

It could be different materials or placed at different levels.

So the key there is to be ready to go into your back pocket to find exactly the right transition to make things as seamless as possible or plan from the get-go to do the work required so that we're ready to make things seamless and functional for our clients at the end of the project.

We have hardwood,