When it comes to natural beauty and richness, it is hard to beat the look and warmth of real hardwood. Like most floor covering products, hardwood has changed dramatically over the last few years. Never out of fashion, hardwood floors can add real value to the home. With proper maintenance, these floors can last a lifetime! This can make the price over the life of the product very economical.
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Tips for Choosing Your Perfect Hardwood:
What level of the home will the wood be placed in? If you want to do the basement, or anything below ground level, you will need to go with an Engineered Wood. engineered wood is 100% natural wood that has been sliced thinly into several cross sections. These thin pieces of natural wood are glued together at a 90 degree angle from the previous piece. By constructing engineered hardwood in this way, the planks are not able to expand and contract with the changes in humidity in the environment.
The next consideration is what type of wear will the hardwood see? Some hardwoods are naturally soft and will therefore dent and scratch much easier than other species. This is an important consideration with pets, children and heavier traffic areas.
Lastly, you will want to look for the type of wood construction that best suits your tastes. There are generally four types to chose from, and we have a large sampling of each one. They include: 3/4 Solid Hardwood Flooring (Unfinished or Pre-finished), Engineered Wood (Unfinished or Pre-finished), Longstrip Wood Planks (Pre-finished) or Parquet Tiles.
Hardwood flooring can be very confusing, so please stop in and let our expert staff guide you to the right wood floor for your home.
Hardwood floors add a beauty and warmth to any home that is unmatched by any other type of floor covering. Never out of fashion, hardwood floors are the only surface to add real value to your home. With the proper maintenance, these floors will last a lifetime!
Manufacturing of hardwood floors has improved dramatically over the years and today's hardwood floors are more durable and adaptable to different types of living areas within the home. Today's hardwood floors come in a much wider selection of colors, wood species, and widths. Besides the classic North American hardwoods (like red oak, white oak, maple and ash) many manufacturers now offer exotic hardwood species from all over the world. Exotic hardwoods allow homeowners the chance to better express their own personal decorating tastes with a more unique looking floor.
Top Line Floors can help you pick a hardwood floor that meets your needs!