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Guide
to Buying Hardwood Floors
Nearly everyone today will agree
that hardwood floors add both warmth and style to the
home.
Historically, the colonists utilized pine and other soft woods
to structure their wood flooring.
However, these woods were quickly replaced with
harder woods, such as oak, hickory, teak, and mahogany.
Today, we still use these
woods as well as countless other wood types and styles
including cork and bamboo. Hardwood flooring is also available as solid planking,
engineered, and laminated forms to fit every budget. Engineered and laminated wood flooring are not solid wood
planking, however, many are made from real wood. In addition to how it is manufactured, wood flooring is also
divided by grades, with each grade determining the price
of the flooring. Choosing
wood flooring is more complicated than just deciding on
the type of wood it.
This article is to help you understand the basics
of wood species, grades, types, and styles of wood
flooring to help remove some of the confusion out of
purchasing your new hardwood flooring.
Despite the fact that there are over 50 different
species of wood in flooring, red oak accounts for over
50% of all sales of wood flooring, because it is
beautiful, extremely durable, and possible the most
important feature is that it’s affordable.
Maple is the next top selling wood flooring.
Other popular types of wood include bamboo,
cherry, white oak and cork.
Exoteric imported woods such as Brazilian cherry,
Australian cypress, African padauk, and Burmese teak
make up only a small portion of hardwood flooring sales,
but their popularity is increasing. In addition, reclaimed and antique flooring is also gaining
in popularity especially among those individuals who are
restoring older homes.
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