Wood Flooring FAQ Guide

Wood Flooring FAQ Guide

Flooring that looks how YOU want it to look!

Unfinished wood flooring affords homeowners unlimited options with no limit on creativity. Choose your own stain and get a greater selection of plank sizes by choosing an unfinished hardwood floor. The oldest form of flooring, unfinished hardwood provides a larger area for testing stains, allowing you to find the right finish, and blends in better with existing materials. Unfinished solid hardwood also comes in larger plank sizes and smaller strips. Engineered unfinished flooring, on the other hand, brings together ease of installation on every floor of a house with unlimited finish options.

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CONSTRUCTION

Learn more about the 2 types of wood flooring constructions; solid hardwood & engineered wood.

FLOORING GRADES

Find out how the National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) determines a floor's overall appearance.

DOMESTIC HARDWOOD SPECIES

From the rustic beauty of Hickory to the sapwood of American Walnut, domestic wood species offer lots of style options

JANKA HARDNESS SCALE

The Janka Harness scale is a numeric system used to determine the overall hardness of a particular wood species.

INSTALLATION TIPS

We always recommend following the installation guidelines set forth by the National Wood Flooring Association.

DISTRESSED WOOD FLOORS

There are a many options & techniques available to give your unfinished floor a unique, distressed appearance.

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Domestic & exotic wood species
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