Why choose hardwood flooring over other flooring systems?
Hardwood flooring has a natural beauty that will give any room a very warm feeling. When building a new home, adding an addition or just taking up old carpeting that doesn’t have a hardwood floor beneath, you should look at the wide variety of wood flooring available. Unlike carpet, 3/4″ thick wood flooring can take wear and tear and last well over 100 years with minimum maintenance (see our maintenance FAQs). When the surface finish wears, or gets scratched over time, you can recoat or sand and refinish the floors to make them new...
read moreIs hardwood flooring more expensive than carpeting?
A high quality wall-to-wall carpet often costs more than hardwood flooring products. Looking at flooring as a purchase that will last for generations with proper maintenance, it is clearly a better value. Once hardwood flooring is laid down it doesn’t require expensive steam cleaning and may only need an inexpensive re-coating after a generation of use (depending on maintenance and wear and tear). Comparing this to carpeting which needs expensive deep cleaning every year or two and replacing after only a few years, hardwood is...
read moreHow is hardwood flooring a good investment?
Hardwood flooring could add value to your home in the following ways: Hardwood floors are generally nailed through the sub floor to the joists, which adds structural integrity to your home. Hardwood floors act as thermal insulators. Hardwood floors add value to your real estate investment. They generally make a property easier to sell. Hardwood floors are very durable. Sometimes when old buildings are destroyed the hardwood floors can be reclaimed and reused. Most floor coverings, carpet, linoleum, etc. last an average of 8 years. Hardwood...
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