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Modern Flooring & Renovations is the best renovation company in all of Buffalo, NY. We offer a variety of different services, from flooring installation, bathroom remodeling, kitchen renovations, finishing basements and epoxy. Whether for your home or commercial property in greater WNY, explore possibilities and make the most of your potential with professional services from our team. Fully insured, we are determined to make a name for ourselves as the best in our field. We personalize the project, catering to the specifics of your needs and delivering unmatched results.

10/11/2026

Big box epoxy kits are a real product, and for a small, dry, low stakes floor a quality kit applied patiently can look good and hold up. Bathrooms are where the gap opens up. Surface prep is the failure point in almost every bad epoxy floor: acid etching from a bottle does not open a slab the way diamond grinding does, and coating over an unopened slab peels. A kit also gives you no way to test whether moisture will lift the floor next spring, ships a thinner film than professional systems, and cannot easily cove up the wall or cut in cleanly around a toilet. And a wet bathroom needs an anti slip additive dialed to the room, not a generic amount. One seasonal bonus: epoxy cures slower in the cold, but an interior bathroom in a heated house is workable year round, which makes it a strong winter project here while exterior slabs wait for spring. More here.

A Buffalo homeowner's guide to epoxy bathroom floors: how the coating handles water, how it compares to tile and vinyl, and when to hire the job out.

10/07/2026

Epoxy is an excellent bathroom surface in some houses and the wrong choice in others, and a good contractor will tell you which. Three situations should end with someone talking you out of it. First, a bathroom over a wood framed floor that visibly flexes, because epoxy is rigid and a floor that moves will crack the coating. Second, a slab with an undiagnosed moisture problem, because water v***r pushing up through concrete will lift epoxy right off the deck and no primer solves that. Third, a household that wants a warm, soft floor underfoot, because epoxy is hard. It takes radiant heat well, but no topcoat makes it cushioned. We would rather flag a bad fit at the estimate than coat a floor that is going to fail. We spell out the good fits and the bad ones here.

A Buffalo homeowner's guide to epoxy bathroom floors: how the coating handles water, how it compares to tile and vinyl, and when to hire the job out.

10/03/2026

If you are weighing an epoxy bathroom floor, you are probably also looking at porcelain tile and luxury vinyl plank. Here is the honest comparison, as tradeoffs rather than a scorecard. Epoxy wins decisively on two things. Seams: it has none in the field, while tile has a grout joint at every tile and vinyl has a click seam at every plank. And repairs: you recoat an area rather than replacing tiles or swapping planks. In return, epoxy asks the most of two things: your slab, which has to be sound and dry, and your patience, because the cure time is fixed and cannot be rushed. If the room is the only full bathroom in the house, that cure window is a real consideration worth planning around. We lay the three side by side here.

A Buffalo homeowner's guide to epoxy bathroom floors: how the coating handles water, how it compares to tile and vinyl, and when to hire the job out.

Your bathroom is the smallest room in the house and the one that takes the worst beating. Standing water, steam, and the...
09/30/2026

Your bathroom is the smallest room in the house and the one that takes the worst beating. Standing water, steam, and the grit that rides in on winter boots all land on the same few square feet. Here is what makes epoxy interesting for that room: it is not a floor you lay down. It is a resin and hardener mixed on site, poured, and cured into one solid sheet bonded to the concrete beneath it. That means no seams in the field. A tile floor is a grid of grout joints and sheet vinyl has a seam at the wall, and in a bathroom every joint is a place water can get underneath. A poured epoxy floor can even be coved a few inches up the wall so floor and baseboard become one continuous surface. That is exactly why it is standard in commercial restrooms. We explain how it works here.

A Buffalo homeowner's guide to epoxy bathroom floors: how the coating handles water, how it compares to tile and vinyl, and when to hire the job out.

09/05/2026

Here is a Buffalo-specific reality worth budgeting for: much of our area's housing stock predates 1940, and older homes love to hide surprises behind the walls. When the rough-in phase opens things up, outdated wiring, unexpected plumbing routing, or subfloor issues are not unusual. None of it is cause for alarm, it is just far better to catch these things now, with the walls open, than to discover them later. The simple fix is to build a contingency of roughly ten to fifteen percent into your budget so a surprise is a manageable line item rather than a derailment. Plan for it up front and your remodel stays on track. We cover the planning essentials for WNY homes here.

Planning a summer kitchen remodel in Buffalo? See the timeline, what to expect at each phase, and how to prep your home. In-person estimates from Modern Flooring.

09/01/2026

If you take away one tip for a summer kitchen remodel, make it this: order your materials early. Cabinets and stone countertops are almost always the long pole in the tent, the items with the longest lead times, and those waits do not shrink just because demand is high. Ordering them early is the single most effective way to keep a summer project on schedule. That is why the design and selection phase is where the most calendar time quietly hides. Booking your in-person estimate in spring or very early summer means the slow paperwork and ordering happen before the season, leaving the warm, easy months for the actual work. Seeing and touching samples in a showroom beats guessing from a screen, too. More planning tips here.

Planning a summer kitchen remodel in Buffalo? See the timeline, what to expect at each phase, and how to prep your home. In-person estimates from Modern Flooring.

08/28/2026

Wondering how long a kitchen remodel actually takes? Here is the honest picture for the Buffalo area. Once demolition starts, most full remodels run about four to eight weeks of active work. But the full journey, from that first consultation through the final walk-through, commonly spans two to four months once you include design, material selections, and lead times. In other words, most of the calendar lives in the planning and ordering, not the construction. A cosmetic refresh that keeps the layout moves faster; a full layout change with relocated plumbing sits at the longer end. The takeaway for a summer project: the earlier you start the conversation, the better your summer goes. Full phase-by-phase breakdown here.

Planning a summer kitchen remodel in Buffalo? See the timeline, what to expect at each phase, and how to prep your home. In-person estimates from Modern Flooring.

Summer is the season Western New York homeowners finally get the big projects done, and a kitchen remodel sits at the to...
08/24/2026

Summer is the season Western New York homeowners finally get the big projects done, and a kitchen remodel sits at the top of the list. It is one of the highest-impact renovations you can make, and also one of the most disruptive to daily life, which is exactly why the easier living conditions of summer make so much sense. A remodel means living without your kitchen for a stretch, and that is far more tolerable when you can grill on the patio and eat outside instead of feeling boxed in by winter weather. Dry, mild days also make it easier to move cabinets and countertops in and out without tracking slush across your floors. We laid out the full timeline, phase by phase, here.

Planning a summer kitchen remodel in Buffalo? See the timeline, what to expect at each phase, and how to prep your home. In-person estimates from Modern Flooring.

Here is a Buffalo-specific angle worth thinking about: our winters mean salt, sand, and slush get tracked indoors for mo...
07/25/2026

Here is a Buffalo-specific angle worth thinking about: our winters mean salt, sand, and slush get tracked indoors for months at a time. That everyday reality shapes the flooring decision more than the material specs do. Hardwood needs entry mats and prompt cleaning to keep that grit from wearing down the finish in high-traffic foyers. Luxury vinyl plank handles the salt-and-moisture cycle with a lot less day-to-day fuss, which is exactly why many local homeowners choose it for entryways and mudrooms even when they go with hardwood everywhere else. The right floor for your home often comes down to how each room actually gets used through a Western New York winter. We cover it all here.

How hardwood and luxury vinyl plank compare for a Buffalo home: durability, moisture, appearance, cost, and how to choose between them.

If you are deciding between hardwood and LVP for a kitchen, bathroom, laundry room, or basement, moisture settles it mor...
07/21/2026

If you are deciding between hardwood and LVP for a kitchen, bathroom, laundry room, or basement, moisture settles it more often than anything else. Luxury vinyl plank is highly water-resistant, and many products are fully waterproof, which makes it a genuinely practical choice for any space where water is a factor. Hardwood is the opposite story: wood reacts to water and humidity, so it is generally not recommended for bathrooms or below-grade rooms like basements. It is beautiful in the right space, just not the wet ones. That is why a lot of Buffalo homes end up with both, hardwood in the living areas and LVP where moisture is in play. More on matching the floor to the room here.

How hardwood and luxury vinyl plank compare for a Buffalo home: durability, moisture, appearance, cost, and how to choose between them.

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