Beehive Flooring & More

Beehive Flooring & More is a family-owned flooring contractor in St. George installing carpet, tile, hardwood and vinyl. In most of the country flooring wears out from feet. Here it wears out from what the feet bring in, which changes what is worth specifying and what is worth doing.

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The red sand that gives this landscape its color is quartz - weathered Navajo and Kayenta sandstone, coated in iron oxide. Quartz sits around seven on the Mohs hardness scale, which puts it well above the polyurethane finish on a wood floor, above most resilient wear layers, and comfortably above the aluminum oxide in a laminate's coating in terms of what it does when ground underfoot. Grit does not scratch a floor by lying on it; it scratches when a shoe presses it against the surface and slides. Every particle tracked through the door is an abrasive under load.

So the highest-return measures are the boring ones. Walk-off matting at every exterior door, long enough for several footfalls rather than a token square, removes the majority of what would otherwise be distributed through the house. Regular vacuuming or sweeping matters more than in a humid climate because the grit is the wear rather than the dirt being cosmetic. Grout color is worth thinking about at selection, since a mid-tone grout hides fine silt where a pale one advertises it, and sealed grout resists staining from the same iron oxide that colors the cliffs. On carpet, a tighter loop or denser twist stands up to embedded grit better than a soft open pile.

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