The Advantages and Disadvantages of a Wooden Floor

Wooden floors are in trend for a long time, the main reason being their looks which provide a vintage yet modern feel to the environment, nowadays wooden floors provide better water & termite resistance which attracts even more people towards purchasing them in place of other flooring options.

It comes in 3 varieties-  strip, plank, and parquet

The strip category has pieces of wood from 1 and a half to 2 and a half inches wide. The plank flooring strips are a bit wider and the parquet flooring comes in square pieces which you can pattern the way you like. You can use unfinished pieces and stain them the color you want.

The advantage of hardwood is that it’s easy to maintain. It can last you a hundred years if it is kept well. It needs to be swept or vacuumed and sometimes cleaned with a wooden floor cleaner.

These floors are costly. Nowadays floors if wooden sell an apartment or house faster than a wall-to-wall carpeted one. That is how appealing it is.

There are many styles you can choose from according to the ambiance you want to project or like. It can be sanded and stained in a color of your own choice Very modern or traditional homes can be graced with these evergreen floors.

There are certain cons that you could look into before you go in for these. They are very costly. The exotic ones are even more expensive.

The flooring must be installed over a subfloor.

They need to be refinished though not so often. This would have to be done if there be children who might spill or run….And pets, you could reconsider… Refinishing floors also creates dust from sanding and fumes spill out from a polyurethane coating.

It can be noisy and every family might not appreciate that. If you are not on the ground floor, your footsteps might be a disturbance to the people below. You could bounce this off by putting rugs at distances. This also oozes warmth.d

These floors are not good in moist climate zones or regions.

That was an enunciation and an ode to the wooden floors. Hope you enjoyed reading and could take a measured decision regarding the kind of floor you would envisage for your new or transformable oldy-goldy home. Cheers!