Hardwood
floors add a beautiful and natural touch. They
also add value to your home and are highly praised in the resale home
market. Today's hardwood floors have made advances in style, durability,
maintenance and care, Hardwood floors making them more widely usable
throughout the home (with the exception of the bathroom where its use is
not recommended due to potential moisture problems).
With simple hardwood floors sweeping or vacuuming and occasional spot
cleaning, wood floors will last a lifetime. There are hundreds of choices
in style and color with today's Hardwood floors options even spanning into
exotic hardwoods. Most wood floors are available in several grades in a
wide range of prices
There
are three basic types of wood floors
- solid, engineered and laminated.
And there are two basic types of hardwood flooring - solid and engineered.
Engineered hardwood floors are made from layers (plies) of both hardwood
and softwood. The top layer is typically a solid ply of the species. Solid
hardwood flooring is not made up of any plies. It is the pure solid
hardwood species and typically costs more. The last is laminated, high
performance laminated floors are precision engineered. The assembly is
fused together under tremendous heat and pressure to form a single unit of
unprecedented strength and stability
Hardwood Floors by Armstrong
Hardwood floors provide warmth and beauty to your home. There are many
other benefits of hardwood floors as well, such as the value they add to
your home, easy care and cleaning, great style coupled with durability and
as always, they're natural and safe for the environment. Give your room a
makeover with Bruce Hardwood flooring, Armstrong Hardwood floors, or
Robbins Hardwood floors.
Solid Wood Flooring
Solid wood flooring comes in three main types. Each type is available in
both an unfinished and a pre-finished version. Unfinished flooring must be
job-site sanded and finished after installation. Pre-finished flooring is
sanded and finished at the factory -- so it only needs installation. The
three main types of solid wood flooring are: Strip flooring - This type of flooring is denoted by the thickness and
width of the wood planks. Strip flooring has a set width, but the
thickness can vary. Strip flooring ranges in thickness from 5/16 of an
inch to 3/4 of an inch wide. It is available only in widths of 1 1/2
inches, 2 inches and 2 1/4.inches.
Plank flooring - Plank flooring only comes in two thicknesses, but unlike
strip flooring, the widths can vary. It is available only in thicknesses
of 1/2 inch or 3/4 inch and a range of widths from 3 inches to 8 inches.
Parquet
flooring - Parquet floors have a very different look from typical
hardwoods. They are made up of geometrical patterns composed of individual
wood slats held in place by mechanical fastening or an adhesive. Hardwood
floors
There
are three basic types of wood floors
- solid, engineered and laminated.
And there are two basic types of hardwood flooring - solid and engineered.
Engineered hardwood floors are made from layers (plies) of both hardwood
and softwood. The top layer is typically a solid ply of the species. Solid
hardwood flooring is not made up of any plies. It is the pure solid
hardwood species and typically costs more. The last is laminated, high
performance laminated floors are precision engineered. The assembly is
fused together under tremendous heat and pressure to form a single unit of
unprecedented strength and stability
