BDU Hardwood College™
Hardwood Flooring: Beauty and Strength in Quality Floors
What you will learn: advantages of hardwood flooring; varieties of
hardwood flooring including engineered hardwood; varieties of surface
appearance including hand-scraped hardwood flooring.
Choosing hardwood flooring can mean taking the reins of your own history; you
will be instrumental is defining your living or working space for years to
come. Apart from the obvious advantages of durability and beauty, you will have
opened a whole new avenue of possibilities for look, feel, and budget
flexibility in your home or commercial project.
To begin with, hardwood flooring in general offers some very significant
advantages to the property owner, from increasing the market value a property,
to the hypoallergenic benefits, and the sense of permanence which is delivered
by the look and feel of hardwood flooring. Overall, this flooring option is
very diverse in terms of style, cut, finish, and color. But, there remain
several other factors to consider once you have given serious thought to
whether hardwood flooring is the right choice for you.
One such choice is whether you want to install a solid hardwood floor, or
whether an engineered floor is a better option for you. This choice depends
upon the kind of subfloor, whether the floor is above or below grade, moisture
levels common to the installation space, and whether the hardwood floor is
installed over radiant heat. These issues are addressed as we proceed here.
Another matter you are no doubt interested in is the surface appearance of the
hardwood itself. Do you want to have a smooth finish, or a more rustic look? If
it’s the rustic look, perhaps a hand-scraped hardwood floor would be
attractive. This option offers a surface on which a craftsman has carefully
sculpted the contours of the natural wood by scraping the surface of the
hardwood. The result is a very stylish surface that also has a more "lived in"
look. With all of these considerations, along with the colors offered by
various species of hardwood and the various stains which are also available,
hardwood flooring is an option that provides you considerable flexibility in
terms of look and feel.
Because of the varied choices available to you, your goal of achieving a unique
look to reflect your individual taste is readily at hand with hardwood
flooring.
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