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When selecting your
hardwood floor:
- Always set a budget, and remember, if the price
sounds to good to be true, it's most likely of lesser
quality.
- Choose a wood floor according to the room's use
(see below).
- Choose a style/design to match and/or compliment
the room's décor.
- Choose a wood floor product with proper finish
that can handle the traffic for that specific area/room.
- Always use a professional wood floor contractor
for installation.
- Parquet flooring is a series of
wood pieces creating a geometric design, from 5/16"
(glue down) up to 3/4" (nail & glue down).
- Plank hardwood flooring is linear,
for a wider look. Common widths of plank flooring
are 3", 4", 5", and 6". Wider products are not uncommon
although the wider the plank, the more concerns for
effects by moisture.
- Strip flooring is also linear flooring
that is usually 1 1/2", 2 1/4", or 3 1/4" wide. Creating
the effect of long lines, strip hardwood often gives
the illusion of a larger and more open space.
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- Acrylic Impregnated: Acrylic is injected
into the wood itself, creating a super-hard, extremely
durable floor.
- Engineered: Layers of wood are pressed
together and glued. The grains run in different directions
for added stability (unlike solids).
- Solid: All hardwood flooring that
is one piece of wood from top to bottom regardless of
width or length is considered to be solid hardwood flooring.
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- Unfinished: This product finished
at the site, and is often very dusty. Job site sanding
and finishing can take over a week depending on the
square footage, stains, and number of coats of top finish.
When other construction is involved, hardwood finishing
must be done after all the other trades have completed
their work. Maintaining these finishes is very important
to providing a long life for the floor.
- Prefinished: These products are
produced in acrylic impregnated, engineered and solids.
These new tough factory finishes are becoming one of
the main reasons for the resurgence in hardwood installation.
They are also much easier to install, with no dusty
sanding procedures, and are comparable in price to unfinished
products.
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