Vinyl flooring is long lasting, and it's among the least expensive flooring you can buy. But there have been safety concerns about chemicals called phthalates sometimes added to vinyl flooring to make ...

Carpet corners that curl up, hardwood floors that squeak as you walk across them, and gaps that appear between your vinyl plank flooring can be annoying, to say the least. Luckily, fixing these issues ...

When it comes to flooring, the top-selling kind is vinyl, and it comes in all kinds of colors and textures. Some even look like stone or wood. Consumer Reports included vinyl in its tests of flooring.

In CR's test for foot-traffic wear, discs holding abrasive paper rub left and right against flooring samples. We check for wear after every 50 left-right cycle. The best flooring is unscathed after ...

Lexie is a former Staff Writer at Forbes Home and has over 6 years of professional experience as a writer and editor in the home improvement space. She's previously worked at sites such as HomeAdvisor ...

Vinyl flooring is also called "resilient" flooring because it characteristically "bounces back" from the weight of objects that compress its surface. It has long been the most popular hard surface ...

Carpet corners that curl up, hardwood floors that squeak as you walk across them, and gaps that appear between your vinyl plank flooring can be annoying, to say the least. Luckily, fixing these ...

Barbara has written professionally for more than two decades. In the past five years, she has specialized in creating real estate and home improvement content. Besides writing for Forbes Home, she ...