Hooray! It’s time to officially kick off the summer season! While you’re enjoying warm, sunny days and entertaining friends and family for cook-outs and parties, watch out for these potential hazards to keep your floors looking great all summer long!

What to watch for:

• Pool water belongs poolside and not puddling on your Armstrong floor. Make sure pool users dry off thoroughly before coming into the house. Walk-off mats are also a good idea to keep floors dry and your family safe from any potential slips or falls.
• Whether you’re adding ice to your favorite drink or filling a cooler, ice doesn’t stay in solid form for long during the dog days of summer. Keep an eye out for stray ice cubes melting on your floor and wipe away any spills.
• Fido is going to be lapping up more water this summer. Make sure you keep the water bowl full and use a towel underneath to catch any splashes.

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It’s that time of the year again: time for Spring Cleaning! It’s kind of like going to the gym – you know you have to do it and you’ll feel better once it’s done, but you put it off as long as you can.

Since I work at Armstrong and have Armstrong floors throughout my house, floors are always a big focus of mine. Very soon, I’ll begin my semi-annual floor cleaning, where I go over all the flooring in our house on my hands and knees. Every time I do this, I think back to my grandmother, who used to scrub floors on the weekends to earn extra money to help send her kids to college. When I got hired at Armstrong, she was already familiar with the name and told me: “I scrubbed many Armstrong floors over the years.” more ►

At Halloween (and all year round), you can protect your Armstrong floors with these helpful tips:

1.	If you are stirring a cauldron in the kitchen, make sure you have an adequate cauldron-support system in place.
2.	Do not allow the pet goat in your house; or any cloven-hooved animals for that matter. Not only are they disagreeable, but your floor may not hold up.
3.	Do not put a kiddie pool in the middle of the kitchen because it is too cold to take the kids out to play. Bad, bad idea.
4.	Do not install Armstrong hardwood in your garage or houseboat.
5.	Don’t allow the hubs to use a chainsaw in the kitchen to make that Thanksgiving ice sculpture. Enough said.
6.	One more time: fireworks belong outdoors, even when it is not the 4th of July.
7.	Though we all love Uncle Frank and his fascination with the Old West, ask him to remove his spurs before coming inside.
8.	No pogo-sticking in the house.

Get more helpful tips on protecting your Armstrong hardwood or vinyl floor.

Happy Halloween!

Nancy Carl serves as the User Experience Manager for Armstrong’s websites. Nancy has worked at Armstrong for almost 10 years and has made usability and web design her passion for the past 15. She believes the best way to find out how customers use the website is by watching people actually use it. In her spare time, she likes to read free books on her Kindle and teach her 3-year-old daughter about spiders and exploding pumpkins.