Hardwood Flooring Overview

Natural Beauty!
The elegant look of hardwood floors can add warmth and charm to any room in the home. The natural characteristics of wood add depth and a rich appearance that many other types of floors try to duplicate. As the demand for hardwood floors has grown so has the manufacturer's ability to produce better quality finishes and superior construction techniques. With these advancements wood floors can now be installed throughout the home and over a wide variety of subfloors.Hardwood floors are offered in a variety of wood species. Besides the popular and well known North American hardwoods, many companies now offer a wide variety of exotic hardwood floors as well. From Australia, Brasil, Africa and the Far East the wood species has broaden the flooring choices dramatically.Today, homeowners looking to use wood floors have the option of purchasing three different types of wood flooring. Although the end results may look the same there are distinct advantages for using each type under different situations.
 

• 3/4" Solid Wood Floors
• Engineered Plank Floors
• Longstrip Plank Floors

Once installed it is extremely difficult to tell the difference between a solid wood floor and the other wood floors. Both the engineered and the longstrip have thin layers of wood that are glued together. By gluing the plies together you get better dimensional stability within the plank itself, which allows these floors to be used on job sites that have a higher percentage of moisture content than normal. This includes basements and over concrete slabs where solid strip wood floors are considered off limits.