Flooring Advice

Flooring Guides & Tips

Straight answers from three generations of East Tennessee flooring installers — what holds up, what doesn't, and how to care for what you have.

August 25, 2026

Do You Need Underlayment Under LVP?

Most luxury vinyl plank already has a pad attached, so you usually don't need to buy underlayment. Over a concrete slab, we still recommend it.

A WPC luxury vinyl plank and an SPC luxury vinyl plank side by side with their layers fanned apart: the WPC shows a thick cream foamed core under an oak surface, the SPC a thinner dense gray stone core under a driftwood-gray surface

August 12, 2026

WPC vs SPC Flooring: Which One Should You Buy?

WPC is our pick for homes in East Tennessee. SPC belongs in commercial glue-down installs, rentals, and flips. Here's the tale of the tape.

Light oak-look WPC luxury vinyl plank flooring installed through a finished kitchen with deep green cabinets and a brick backsplash, a Miller's Wholesale Flooring install

August 11, 2026

What's the Best Flooring for a Lake House?

Luxury vinyl plank is the best flooring for a lake house: waterproof, warm underfoot, and built for wet swimsuits, dripping dogs, and humidity swings.

The Miller's storefront in Madisonville, Tennessee with the original Millers Wholesale Carpet sign over the entrance and two Miller's-wrapped work trucks parked out front

August 10, 2026

What Does Wholesale Flooring Actually Mean? The Story Behind Our Name

Miller's Wholesale Flooring isn't a warehouse, and isn't the cheapest store in town on purpose. Here's what the Wholesale on our sign really means.

Cutaway diagram of a WPC luxury vinyl plank pulled apart into its four layers: a clear 20 mil wear layer, an oak woodgrain print layer, a thick wood-plastic composite core, and an attached foam pad

August 10, 2026

What Is LVP Made Of? Every Layer of Luxury Vinyl Plank, Explained

Luxury vinyl plank is built in four layers: a clear wear layer, a printed design layer, a rigid SPC or WPC core, and usually an attached underlayment pad.

Metallic epoxy floor in deep emerald green with black marbling in a Murphy, NC warehouse

August 9, 2026

Metallic Epoxy in a Murphy, NC Warehouse: Why a Commercial Slab Doesn't Have to Look Like One

Most warehouse floors get one of two treatments. Either they get sealed and forgotten, or they get a flat gray coating that does its job and asks for…

January 26, 2026

Why buy a WPC?

WPC stands for Wood Polymer Composite core — softer, warmer and more sound absorbent than an SPC. Here is why we recommend it for residential floors.

November 17, 2025

Gluing VS Stapling Hardwood

Staple, glue, or float? How we install solid and engineered hardwood, and why we full-spread glue engineered planks every time.

October 29, 2025

How to Prepare for Flooring Installation

What to move, what to clean, and how to level a subfloor — the three steps that get you from a lived-in room to a clean slate ready for new flooring.

October 28, 2025

How Much Flooring Should I Order?

How much overage to account for on LVP, hardwood and tile — and why ordering the exact measured square footage will leave you short.

Two oak flooring planks shown end on side by side, labeled Solid and Engineered: the solid plank on the left is milled from one continuous piece of oak with a tongue and groove edge, and the engineered plank on the right shows a thin real oak veneer bonded over stacked crisscrossed plywood layers

October 28, 2025

Engineered Hardwood vs Solid Hardwood: What's the Difference?

Solid hardwood is one piece of wood you can refinish for decades. Engineered is a real wood veneer over plywood that goes where solid can't.

October 28, 2025

Cleaning Products and Tips for Cleaning your Floors

Which cleaners work on LVP versus hardwood, why you should not wet mop wood, and when a steam mop is and is not safe.

December 19, 2022

Luxury Vinyl Flooring Myths and What You Need to Know

Three common myths about luxury vinyl flooring — that it is all the same, that it does not hold value, and that it looks fake — and why none of them hold up.

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