Things to Consider before buying from a Commercial Flooring Supplier

Posted by Baila Floors on May 9th, 2017

Hardwood floor is becoming increasing popular for being rather durable, hypoallergenic and also super easy to clean. However, choosing the perfect wood for your home is a bit more complicated. When you are looking for woods, you should never just the pick the first that you see. Yes, you might like it but that’s not enough reason to place it in your house. There are a lot of factors that needs to be considered.
 
Listed below are a few tips which would help you in choosing the appropriate hardwood flooring for your house.

Type of the Wood

There are two kinds of hardwood namely solid wood and engineered wood. You must consider the room wherein the flooring would be used. The engineered hardwood flooring is the best option for the areas which are subjected to extra moisture. Also, unlike solid hardwood, these can be placed over concrete or below grade. The hardwood residential flooring services California would sand an engineered floor just like the solid wood floor and install it properly in your room.
 
Style

Decide the furniture, colours of the paint and the cabinets so as to make sure that they do not clash with the style and the design of the wood of the floorboards. In case your room has several windows, the light would be enough to balance the darker coloured floors. However, a darker house which doesn’t have many windows would be better suited to the floors of lighter colour so as to brighten the room up. Most of the people often like buying dark woods because they seem much cleaner but, these days’ people are drifting more towards lighter colours because of how much bright they make the room appear.

Location
 
In case the room has below-grade floors, solid wood should be avoided s it would not be able to deal with the moisture which comes up through the ground and therefore get damaged pretty quickly. Engineered woods would be much preferable in such cases as it can easily be installed on a concrete floor as well. The above-ground floor however are more versatile and gives you more options for choosing the flooring as both engineered and solid wood can be easily installed above a plywood surface.
 
Cost

While making a purchase from a commercial flooring supplier, you should consider the cost too. However, cost should never be the sole factor while buying floorboards for your house. One should always choose a reputable company as quality of the product is a huge factor.
 
You could also bring a sample from the showroom to your house to check if it matches with your other things. It is because the lighting at the store and at your home is different and he would appear different at different places because of that.

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