Hardwood flooring is always in style, surpassing many fleeting trends. It can add significant value and beauty to your interiors and capture our imagination.
At Carpet One Floor & Home in Fayetteville, North Carolina, we carry one of the region’s most comprehensive collections of solid and engineered hardwood flooring. Our experts understand the challenges of living in a humid climate and can help you make the best flooring decisions to ensure many happy days ahead.
We proudly provide hardwood flooring to clients all over Cumberland County. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you shop for hardwood.
Today, there are hardwood options to please every style palate.
Hardwood flooring spans the full gamut of tastes and styles, ranging from traditional or classic looks to all the latest trends. It is available in a variety of plank widths and lengths and in many different finishes, stains, and shades.
Coveted, classical, and elegant, hardwood flooring is something many of us aspire to add to our homes or workplaces. It has been consistently popular over the generations and offers amazing lasting abilities if properly installed and situated. There’s no questioning hardwood flooring’s timeless appeal.
Hardwood flooring can be crafted from many tree species, both traditional and exotic.
Each tree species offers hardwood flooring with its own respective levels of hardness and distinctive grain patterns. Different hardwoods will perform differently and have varying levels of hardness.
Solid Hardwood Floors: Solid hardwood has been around for many years, and while it has changed over time, its natural look and beauty continue to offer a touch of warmth in any home design. Solid wood differs from engineered wood, particularly in its construction. Solid hardwood floors are milled from one piece of wood, while engineered wood floors feature a unique, layered construction. The unique construction of both solid and engineered floors makes for many differences between their features, durability, and more.
Engineered Hardwood Floors: Engineered wood floors are another type of wood floor that is ideal for many homes. Engineered hardwood floors are constructed from genuine wood. However, when creating engineered wood planks, multiple plies of wood are glued together in a cross-grain pattern. On top of the cross-grain wood pattern, a genuine piece of wood is placed on top, which gives engineered hardwood its natural, genuine wood beauty. Then, the layers are bonded under high heat and pressure. Unlike solid hardwood, this construction makes engineered wood more dimensionally stable, which means less expansion and contraction with changes in moisture and humidity levels.
Hardwood flooring should generally be reserved for dry, quieter spaces.
Most hardwood flooring isn't well-suited for kitchens or bathrooms since wet planks will warp over time. Engineered hardwood flooring offers more flexibility than its solid counterpart and can be installed below grade, making it an appropriate solution for some finished basements.
Professional flooring installation is almost always the best option: in fact, your product warranty likely requires it.
Hardwood floors aren’t the ideal option for certain settings or situations. Most homeowners should consider their home’s interior climate before scheduling a hardwood installation.
Seasonal climate fluctuations can cause the relative humidity in your home to fluctuate regularly. Your air level, water level, or relative humidity should be accurately determined as you plan for new flooring—both during and long after installation.
A consistent interior climate is the key. We recommend using either a humidistat or hydrometer to monitor your home’s air, with the goal of maintaining around 42% humidity. Running air conditioners during the summer and using climate-controlling blinds or drapes, is a wonderful way to help smooth things along. On a similar note, a humidifier can be utilized during the cooler seasons.
As proud members of the world’s largest cooperative of independent flooring stores, we’re proud to be your trusted hardwood flooring resource. We carry many of the industry’s top hardwood products, by all of the best flooring brands.
Visit us today at 927 Bragg Boulevard to browse our hardwood displays, or schedule a FREE onsite project estimate.
At Carpet One Floor & Home in Fayetteville, NC, we are proud to be your local hardwood flooring provider for Cumberland County, NC, and surrounding areas.
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