By: David H.
Submitted: 2009-10-11 18:57:01 | Word Count: 646
Wood floors are generally durable, affordable, and beautiful. They come in a variety of styles, colors, and genus giving you wide room to customize. Whether you desire for trendy and traditional wood species, you can avail of the wood floor that matches your taste.
What exquisite and divine flooring can all the more inspire the warmth of your home than wood flooring! Wood floors are extensively available in a plethora of colors, styles, cuts, and species. Whether you are opting for conventional Pine, Mahogany, Oak, or fashionable Cork or Bamboo, you can always get hold of the one that fits your fancy.
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Wood floors are natural supplies safe and friendly to the environment. They can be recycled too. What’s more, wood floors, unlike other floor types do not accumulate dirt and allergy causing pollutants. This is why various top health institutions consider wood floors as the ideal alternative for a healthy household. In most cases, wood floors are reasonably priced. At the end of the day, wood flooring preserves its value and proves its ageless splendor and durability.
Styles of Wood Floors
a. Parquet flooring
This is a type of flooring in which wood flooring pieces are assembled together to fashion manifold geometrical patterns and designs. Hard, tough wood of this type is perfect for high traffic kitchens and kids’ bed room and play room. The slightly hard wood is ideal for living rooms.
b. Strip flooring
Strip flooring, frequently called as hardwood flooring is a solid, linear flooring that customarily comes in widths of 1 ½, 2 ¼, and 3 ¼ inches. This conventional wood generates a linear upshot in areas where it’s installed thus frequently providing the trick and impression of a bigger space. Strip wood flooring also comes in softwood genus such as Pine.
c. Plank flooring
This type has a broader width but is also in linear designs. Plank flooring is typically available in widths of 5, 4 and 3 inches. The Red Oak and Northern White Ash are among the hard wood species typically used for plank flooring.
Types of Wood Floors
a. Engineered Flooring
This type of flooring is wonderful for rooms and portions of your home wherein solid wood floor is not suited like utility rooms, cellars, and powder rooms. Engineered flooring is more dimensionally durable as compared to solid wood because its wood grains are widely divergent and run in various directions. This flooring is usually offered in 5 and 3 thicknesses, and is comprised of wood sheets pressed together.
b. Acrylic Impregnated floors
Acrylic impregnated floors, as the name implies, is a method that makes use of acrylics that are infused into the wood thus generating highly strong and ultra hard flooring. While it is well suited in homes, acrylic impregnated floors are typically brought into play in business related applications such as cafes, restaurants, and malls.
c. Solid Flooring
This type offers consumers immense possibilities to be creative and do lots of modifications. Solid flooring is of any size and thickness that features one strip of wood from top to bottom. Solid flooring is well fitting for many home sections. The finishes and species you prefer greatly play a role to the personal touch that your solid floor can hold.
Wood Floor Cuts
The appearance of the finished wood is shaped and determined by the approach and angle at which a floorboard is cut. Generally, wood flooring is cut in three approaches: quarter sawn, plain sawn and rift sawn.
Quarter sawn is a wood type that coils and wears evenly. It is more expensive because it generates lesser plank feet for every log compared to plain sawing.
Rift sawn is comparable to quarter sawn wood, with cuts created at a little distinct angle.
The plain sawn type is the most popular cut. It has more variants than the quarter sawn and rift sawn due to grain designs upshot from the growth circles are more noticeable.
