Wooden Floors
Enhance Your Home with Wooden Floors
No other flooring offers the warmth, natural beauty, durability, practicality and value of wooden floors. This is a strong statement that makes a lot of claims, but if you consider the virtues and benefits of wooden floors, there is certainly more than enough reason to believe this. Wood adds a natural warmth to any room, as well as a sense of style. A well-maintained wooden floor is not only beautiful, but also a statement of elegance and accomplishment. Such a floor will last for years, weathering foot traffic and time with no effort, keeping its appeal long after other flooring types would have required a replacement.
While it can be rather expensive, depending on your choice of wood, nothing beats the splendour of a solid hardwood floor. These wooden floors can be chosen to match just about any colour scheme, as different types of wood come in all different shades of brown. The better the quality of the wood, the less colour variation and less knotting, however, mixed grades are often requested so one can see the full character of the wood.
Although wooden flooring has traditionally only been made from solid wood, suppliers have now entered the engineered market. With engineered wood, the top face may be solid or a veneer. Selective engineered woods have a top face up to 5mm thick, glued and pressed onto a very stable base. This wood is re-sandable, just like any solid wooden floor and has the dimensional stability of a normal engineered floor. This affords you the opportunity to still have the look of real wood in your home, but at a more affordable price in many circumstances.
When it comes to the installation and maintenance of real wooden floors, one should not take shortcuts, as this might lead to unnecessary problems and expenses later on. If you are unsure about how to go about it, then feel free to contact the leaders in all types of flooring – Top Carpets and Floors. With over two decades of experience in the flooring industry, we have the necessary expertise to give you top-class advice and supply you with only the best quality materials.
