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KAHALA PACIFIC FLOORS JUNE 6, 2021 HAWAII RENOVATION 11
Understanding wood flooring
If you have ever considered getting hardwood flooring for your home, the first
thing you need to know is that there is a lot to know. Before you spend a penny on new flooring, you owe it to yourself to do some homework and look into the various forms available in today’s market. Get to know the pros and the cons of each type and what would be the best use of your in- vestment dollars.
We will start with wood flooring. Even within this sin- gle category, there are many different types available to consumers and they each have very different charac- teristics with regard to form, installation requirements and cost. Even with the over- whelming popularity of vinyl, you might be surprised that you can get a wood floor for not much more money than you planned to spend.
The most basic wood flooring is unfinished solid. This is a three-quarter-inch- thick piece of wood, which comes in various widths and has been milled into flooring with a tongue and groove on the sides so that the boards can nicely sit together on your floor. The boards are acclimated, installed, then sanded and finished in your
home. This is the most tradi- tional wood flooring that can be found, and it takes a lot of skill and care to install prop- erly. Due to the extra step of finishing the product on-site, it is one of the most costly options.
The next style is prefin- ished solid. Identical in di- mensional characteristics to unfinished, the main differ- ence is that all the sanding and finishing has been done in a factory. The wood just needs to be glued or nailed in and no further process- ing is necessary. Many of these floors feature alumi- num oxide, ultraviolet curing and multiple coats of finish, which give them a durability that cannot be achieved by
manually finishing on-site. The third major style is en- gineered wood flooring. This innovation in wood flooring consists of a top-wear layer of the actual wood species installed onto a multi-ply base. While solid wood floor- ing is especially sensitive to moisture, the crisscross de- sign of the substrate for en- gineered floors gives them dimensional stability, which often allows for floating in- stallation. This makes instal- lation cost nearly the same as putting in a vinyl floor. Top layers can vary greatly from the thickness of card- stock to half the thickness of the floor and ply layers can
range from as few as two or three plies, up to about nine. A common misconception is that the thin layer of wood on the top is made that way to be cheap or give you an economy product. This could be true but the real purpose goes far beyond this. Did you know that too thick a top layer is not good either? Want to learn more? Please visit the Kahala Pa- cific Floors showroom and sign up for the upcoming Great Flooring 101 webinar at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 12. All attendees will receive a free gift, so call 808-847-7711 to register or email sales@ piiwood.com. See you online.
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