HARDWOOD

The Beauty And Authenticity Of Hardwood Flooring

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Home Interiors offers a wide selection of hardwood flooring options, which have been a popular choice for homeowners for centuries. Its timeless beauty and durability make it a perfect choice for any home. In recent years, there has been a trend towards authentic flooring that reflects a homeowner's values and taste. Hardwood flooring not only provides an elegant or rustic look, but it also has the added benefit of being a sustainable and eco-friendly flooring option.

Hardwood Product: Engineered Hardwood

Engineered hardwood flooring has gained popularity due to its many benefits. Engineered floors have higher resistance to moisture than solid wood flooring, resulting in less gapping in the winter months. They can also be directly glued down over dry concrete slabs or stapled down over a wood subfloor, providing flexibility in installation. Engineered hardwood flooring is also more renewable than solid wood flooring and often costs less. Additionally, the dimensional stability of engineered floors allows for wider-width planks than solid wood flooring.

Hardwood Installation: Prefinished Vs. Site-finished Hardwood

When it comes to installation, homeowners must choose between prefinished and site-finished hardwood flooring. Prefinished flooring has the finish applied to it at the factory, eliminating the dust and smells associated with sanding and finishing on site. The boards are already finished, so homeowners can walk on them as soon as they are installed. They also have a hard, smooth, and durable finish due to the seven to nine coats of urethane applied in ideal environmental conditions. However, milling inconsistencies are more noticeable, and the wood is more expensive. Site-finished flooring is sanded, stained, and finished after installation, resulting in a smooth surface with no detectable high or low points between the boards. While it costs less than prefinished wood, the finish is not quite as hard or smooth, and the installation process takes almost twice as long.

Prefinished

Prefinished flooring - as the name implies - is flooring that has the finish applied to it at the factory before it reaches the suppliers. This flooring has become very popular in recent years because of the advantages it offers:

Pros:

During installation, you skip all the dusty mess and smells that go along with sanding and finishing.
The boards are already finished, so as soon as they're installed, you can walk on them.
The boards are finished in a factory under ideal environmental conditions. Seven to nine coats of urethane are applied. In addition, the finish contains aluminum oxide. The result is a very hard, smooth, and durable floor.
Because there is no sanding and finishing, a prefinished floor can normally be installed in a little over half the time, cutting the cost of labor.