Choosing the right hardwood floor for your home
While carpet may have once been the floor covering of choice, more and more people are installing hardwood in their home. Although the initial cost of hardwood is greater than carpet, it offers a substantial cost savings in the long run, outlasting the life of a carpet by decades.
Once you decide to have hardwood installed in your home, whether it’s choosing between solid or engineered flooring, certain grades, warranties and even manufacturers, buying a new floor can be an extremely daunting task if you don’t know all the facts.
Finishes made easy
Satin Finish’s Eco-Last finish is allergen-free and allows for simple maintenance of your floor. It comes with a twenty- and thirty-year residential wear and lifetime structural warranty. It helps prevent scratches, stains and wear.
Engineered hardwood flooring
First introduced to the marketplace in the early 1980′s, engineered hardwood flooring is steadily becoming the popular choice in hardwood.
Satin Finish’s 2-ply engineered, pre-finished hardwood product line provides increased stability with its hardwood to hardwood backing. And, because less wood is used, it is also more environmentally friendly. Like its solid counterpart, engineered flooring is available in various widths, species and colours. It can also be installed using glue, nail or staple down applications onto concrete or plywood sub-floors, making engineered ideal in both homes and condominiums.
Solid hardwood flooring
Solid hardwood flooring is a natural, living product that adds a timeless look to any room. Not only can it be refinished on site, but with the proper care and maintenance, solid hardwood can last in your home for generations.
Canadian manufacturer Satin Finish Hardwood Flooring (www.satinfinish.com) has been in the hardwood flooring business for over eighty years and offers an assortment of solid hardwood products in 3/4″ as well as a more ‘eco-friendly’ 9/16″ thickness. Solid hardwood comes in a variety of widths, species and colours for nail-down applications over plywood sub-floors.
Most everyone enjoys having the newest and brightest thing on the market and when affordability is a factory people want to buy the products. So what is next for the Hardwood flooring industy? They have already come out with a blended choice of any tree out on the market to make a floor out of. These include Bamboo hardwood flooring, Cork hardwood flooring, etc. The bottom line is choosing the best hardwood flooring for your home is a difficult decision and needs to be thought out carefully. Consult with a professional in colors and textures and perhaps it will be and easier decision.
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