About Darien's Darien Home Improvement

Are you looking for flooring for your home in Darien CT 06820? We know there are many choices..and sometimes the process can feel overwhelming. Whether you're looking for hardwood floors, tile, carpet, laminate flooring, or if you just want to refinish your hardwood floors, Floor Coverings International can help make the process fun and simple.

We are a shop at home service.

Our tagline is "We bring the store your door." This is important because first, you can see the colors in your lighting and color coordinate with paint color, cabinets and furniture. Second, it allows us to provide a true estimate for you. And, third, of course it is more convenient this way.

We provide guidance - Which is the best type of flooring for your environment and your budget? We'll help explain the pros and cons among the different types of flooring. Whether it's the kitchen, living room, bedrooms or bathrooms, we can help - different types of flooring work better in different environments so let us guide you. We can price out different options so you can compare across hardwood floors vs. carpet, or tile vs. laminate. We'll help you understand what is most practical for you/your family's/your pets' lifestyle.

Floor Coverings International provides design guidance on picking colors, style and layout. We love to help provide design advice. We want to help make your home look more beautiful - it's a reflection of you and our work. If it's hardwood flooring, we can help you pick the species and color of wood; if it's tile, we can advise you on design layout and patterns; if it's carpet, we can help you pick the right color; iff it's a backsplash, we can provide you tile and design ideas.

Bamboo Flooring and Cork - Floor Coverings International in a large supporter of environmentally friendly flooring. We love helping the environment too. So, whether it's bamboo flooring or cork or natural wool or sisal carpeting, we can help you. We also offer carpets that are recycleable and hardwoods that use recycled content.

Great installation and customer reviews. We just won the 2010 Super Service Award on Angie's List. In addition, we will supply you with over 30 references so you can check up on our work. While most of our customers prefer for us to take care of both the materials and installation, occasionally, some of our customers already have the tile, and just want us to take care of installation; others already have an installer and just want us to help with materials. Either way, we will give you top notch services

Flooring for Darien CT 06820 - Fairfield County

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We are very reasonably priced. Our estimates are always FREE. And, because we are part of nationwide buying group (there are close to 100 of us across the country), so our pricing is very reasonable. We'll work with you to find a tile that works for your budget.

Floor Coverings International is your friendly neighborhood flooring store. We have done work on your neighbors' streets Darien including

• Great Hill Rdt
• Weed St
• Gardiner St
• New Wilton Rd
• Great Hill Rd

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For more info on Flooring, check out these posts:

What types of hardwood are best for pets?

I have hardwood underneath my carpets. Should I refinish the hardwood or recarpet?

What is a floating floor?

So, if you're looking for flooring for your home in Darien CT 06820 , give us a call at Floor Coverings International 914-937-2950 and let us "bring the store to your door."

Improved Energy Star Version 3 for Your Home, 2012

With many states upgrading their building and energy codes the EPA’s Energy Star for New Construction Homes program (ESv3) will be upgraded to version 3 starting January 1^st, 2012. Energy Star homes are 20-30% more efficient than standard homes with emphasis on being able to verify that the proper installation and building practices have been met in:

• Thermal Enclosure
• Insulation system
• Envelope of building
• High performance windows
• HVAC system, including ducts
• Energy Star qualified lighting and appliances
• Water Management system and/or Indoor Air Quality

The majority of the program and the included checklist are to document that your contractor/builder has built to the 2009 IECC energy code and has followed proper manufacture directions for installation of windows, thermal barrier, HVAC system and also energy efficient building codes such as proper insulation installation, efficient lighting fixtures.

This third party verification by a certified Home Energy Rater is really a quality control feature to make sure that the builder has followed proper instructions and has done the work to the proper requirements.

Manufacture installment instructions have changed and adopted different requirements in response to the recent advancements of residential building technology and science. Many of these procedures do not follow the same procedure that they did 2 to 5 years ago. Many local building supply stores such as Rings End Lumber provide free educational events to inform and educate their contractors of the changes.

For example:

Exterior house wrap needs to be taped with manufacture recommended tape at all joint and installed with 1 inch button nails

High performance windows need to follow installation directions of manufacture or warrantee is void; this includes proper water flashing procedures.

HVAC systems need to be verified that components are compatible and that duct work has a minimum of leakage and are properly installed & insulated.

Proper air sealing around the exterior of a house, fiberglass insulation is not an air sealer, use caulk or foam.

To find Builders, Raters and other Energy Star Partners in your state click here.

David Popoff is a license Realtor in Connecticut with William Raveis office in Darien.
A resident of Fairfield County for over 40 years with a background in residential construction and property management.

• NAR Green designee.
• David Popoff is an accredited LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP) Homes and USGBC member of the Connecticut chapter (CTGBC).
• Associate member and an accredited Certified Green Professional (CGP) of National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and the local chapter HBRA-Fairfield County, Ct. .
• Contact David Popoff for all your real estate needs in lower Fairfield County, Connecticut. Member of the Connecticut Association of Realtors, CAR.
• Member of the National Association of Realtors, NAR.
• Member of the Darien MLS, Greenwich MLS & Greater Fairfield County, Ct MLS.

Connecticut Residential Building Codes Going Green.

On the books for Connecticut is to this fall of 2011 is to adapt the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) into the State Building Code. The 2009 IECC contains several major improvements in energy efficiency over the current 2006 IECC state code.

The most notable changes will improve the duct sealing of HVAC systems and efficient lighting requirements. The code will apply to single family housing and multi-family housing three stories or less for new construction, additions, alterations, renovations and repairs.

The primary zone 5 building envelope requirements for all Connecticut residential buildings in the 2009 IECC are:

• R-38 Ceilings
• U-0.35 Windows and Doors
• R-20 Walls
• R-30 Floors
• R-10 Foundations

Notable requirements in the 2009 IECC:

• Building envelope must be caulked and sealed.
• Slab-on-grade insulation is R-10 to a depth of 2 feet.
• Supply ducts in attics must be insulated to R-8. Return ducts in attics and all ducts in crawlspaces, unheated basements, garages, or otherwise outside building envelope must be insulated to R-6.

• All ducts must be sealed and either:
• Verified by pressure testing - the duct system has to be tested and the air leakage out of ducts must be kept to an acceptable maximum level.
• Installed entirely within the building thermal envelope - testing is not required if all ducts are inside the building thermal envelope (for example in heated basements), though the ducts still have to be sealed.
• Piping for hydronic (boiler) heating systems must be insulated to R-3.
• Although vapor barriers are not required by the IECC, the I-codes do set wall vapor barriers requirements in Section R601.3 of the 2009 IRC, and vapor barriers are required in Zone 5.
• Less insulation is allowed for mass walls and more insulation is required for steel framing.
• 50% of the lighting "lamps" (bulbs, tubes, etc.) in a building must be highly efficient. Compact fluorescents qualify, standard incandescent bulbs do not.
• Standard I-code administrative requirements (inspections, documentation) apply.
• A certificate must be posted near the electrical panel listing insulation levels and other energy efficiency measures.

Exemptions/Allowances from prescriptive measures:

• One door and 15 ft2of window area are exempt
• Skylight U-factors are allowed to be U-0.60
• 500 ft2or 20% of ceiling area of cathedral ceiling, whichever is less, is allowed to have R-30 insulation

David Popoff is a license Realtor in Connecticut with William Raveis office in Darien.
A resident of Fairfield County for over 40 years with 30 years of work experience throughout lower Fairfield County and now resides in Darien, Ct since 2004.

• NAR Green designee.
• David Popoff is an accredited LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP) Homes and USGBC member of the Connecticut chapter (CTGBC).
• Associate member and an accredited Certified Green Professional (CGP) of National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and the local chapter HBRA-Fairfield County, Ct. .
• Contact David Popoff for all your real estate needs in lower Fairfield County, Connecticut. Member of the Connecticut Association of Realtors, CAR.
• Member of the National Association of Realtors, NAR.
• Member of the Darien MLS, Greenwich MLS & Greater Fairfield County, Ct MLS.

Are you looking for tile flooring and installation for your home in Darien CT?

Whether it’s a kitchen floor, bathroom floors and walls, an entry way or mudroom, or even a Kitchen tile backsplash,we can help you at Floor Coverings International.

We understand that it can be challenging to find the right type of tile for your floors, walls and backsplashes. What’s the right type of tile – ceramic, porcelain, tumbled natural stone, marble or granite? What’s the best style and color? What types are easiest to clean. Many customers seemed to get overwhelmed when they visit a tile store. Well here’s where we can help.

Floor Coverings International makes it simple by “bringing the store to your door.” That way, you can see the samples in your own lighting and color coordinate with your cabinets, walls and paint colors. We'll guide you through the process to pick out the right tile, color, size and shape and layout. We can help you design your tile floors and backsplashes and we can install it for you, too. We are a shop at home flooring store in Westchester/Stamford that gets the job from start to finish.

Tile Flooring and Tile Backsplashes in Darien CT 06820

With tile, it’s all about the installation, so you want someone you can trust. We just won the 2010 Super Service Award on Angie's List. In addition, we will supply you with over 30 references so you can check up on our work. While most of our customers prefer for us to take care of both the materials and installation, occasionally, some of our customers already have the tile, and just want us to take care of installation; others already have an installer and just want us to help with materials. Either way, we will give you top notch services

We are very reasonably priced. Our estimates are always FREE. And, because we are part of nationwide buying group (there are close to 100 of us across the country), so our pricing is very reasonable. We'll work with you to find a tile that works for your budget.

Floor Coverings International is your friendly neighborhood flooring store. We have done work on your neighbors' streets Darien including

• Great Hill Rdt
• Weed St
• Gardiner St
• New Wilton Rd
• Great Hill Rd

Map of Darien CT 06820

View Larger Map

For more info on Ceramic/Porcelain/Natural Stone, check out these posts:

Porcelain that looks like hardwood. Yes, that's right.

Designing a kitchen backsplash

Should you install tile yourself?

So, if you're looking for tile flooring or backsplashes for your home in Darien CT 06820, give us a call at Floor Coverings International 914-937-2950 and let us "bring the store to your door."