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What You Should Know About Wood Flooring

Wood flooring is affordable, easy to maintain, and adds measurable value to your home.

Best Value in Flooring: Wood

Hardwood flooring can add lasting value to your home. In fact, most homebuyers are looking for homes with hardwood flooring. According to a recent survey by the National Wood Flooring Association, real estate agents said, by a three to one margin, homes with hardwood flooring sell faster.

Why Wood?

Not only does wood flooring give the impression that the home was build using top quality materials, it offers greater design versatility, and it never needs to be replaced, because over time hardwood flooring wears better than any other kind of flooring. In addition to offering lasting value, wood flooring is, in many ways, healthier because it doesn?t trap dust mites, mold, and other allergens like other kinds of flooring options can.

Consider the Costs

Though there are many advantages to hardwood flooring, if you are considering putting it in, it?s important to know that you must protect the surface from moisture as well as scratches, and use the proper kinds of hardwood flooring cleaners. And, when it comes to bathrooms, wood flooring is not the optimal choice due to moisture concerns.

Different Kinds of Hardwood Flooring

There are, primarily three different kinds of hardwood flooring: solid wood flooring, engineered wood flooring, and acrylic-impregnated wood flooring. Acrylic-impregnated wood flooring is used for businesses and offices because it contains a sealant and has color infused throughout the wood to make it very moisture resistant and hard. Engineered wood flooring is produced using layers of plastic laminate veneer and real wood. (But take note, this isn?t wood laminate flooring, which doesn?t contain wood.) Finally, there is solid wood flooring, which is manufactured from a single piece of wood and comes either unfinished or pre-finished. Each of these different flooring types comes in a variety of styles and colors to compliment the design and layout of your home.