Sounds like a private labeled product perhaps. I personnaly, have never heard of it. I would need to know...is it Anso, Couture, Clear Touch, Evertouch....This info tells me more about what it is and can give you an opinion. If it is private labled...(Lowes..Carpet 1..Flooring America) My suggestion then would be..go to a store that uses real names, find a carpet and ask the same question as then you can get some serious help....Thanks

Suzieque, I fell in love with Mannington's Hickory that is their best grade since I like color variation, loved the 5" wider boards in the Hickory and liked the hardness of it (50% harder than red oak). Then I decided to go with a harder wood and went with Brazilian Cherry that I just had installed and I love the coloring. I tried to do a search and went to many sites but this site seems to explain Hickory the best regarding the grades of Hickory & the manufacturer determine the look. Here is a link that might be useful: Grades of Hickory & manufacturer determine the look

I've never used quartzite on a floor, nor seen it used, but I don't see why it would be a problem. In fact, it'd make a great textured floor in high traffic areas. As for cleaning, I don't see why hot water wouldn't work 90% of the time. Make sure your subfloor and joisting are engineered to handle natural stone, though. They need to be literally twice as strong for natural stone as for ay other surface, including ceramic tile.

Yes, all old houses have histories and usually interesting ones. I started out researching the census for this townhip, and then found some 1835 atlases. Here she sat in all her glory. I own a business at this site too, and the elderly customers from this township were more than happy to sit down on a hot summer day and share their recollections of this house from their childhood. I found out that there was a one-room schoolhouse about a quarter mile down the road, and in the early 1900s, the teacher would send two boys with buckets to our property to pull up water from the spring house for their day's use in the school. I also found out who owned it initially and that he was the first mecantiler in this township. That led to more questions, and another fellow down the road said his store was in a wooden building right across our drive to the road. It was moved in recent years to an intersection down the ways and was a little general country store. That the original roof was wood shakes, and later found them when we had to replace the roof. Found the original owner through tax records, and the owner who built the store and lived here, where he was from and on the inet, got an accounting from an descendant who gave me their life's story. Half of the family died off from tyhpoid fever. Followed the family through old local newspapers on microfilm and found out his son was a mayor of the nearby town and owned a shoestore. More folks came by with pictures taken during the Civil War. Found deeds where it was purchased by a coal company and mined, and found out it was the stopping point of the first road built in this township and used as a road house. On and on. It really adds to your appreciation of the house you call home. Makes you also make a firmer commitment to keeping it up, because you are living in history, literally.