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The Many Benefits of Hardwood Floors in Your Home

by Kevin Smith Author

If you are looking for one sure-fire way to improve that value of your home, think hardwood floors. A report on home buyer preferences by USA Today recently found that a majority of home buyers were willing to pay more for a home with hardwood floors, especially buyers under 55. And hardwood floors are not that much more expensive than good carpeting, yet give a lasting increase in value that even carpets can’t hope to.

Durable

One obvious benefit of hardwood flooring is durability. In areas of the country with cold winters and very hot summers like Georgia and the rest of the Southeast US, hardwood floors stand up to the elements better than carpeting and create a warmer more inviting atmosphere than tile, slate, linoleum or other types of hard flooring.

Allergies

If you suffer from allergies hardwood is the perfect flooring because it does not trap dust mites, animal dander and pollen the way carpets do. It doesn’t need to be washed of vacuumed. A once-over every few days with a good dust mop will keep hardwood looking good for years.

Installation

When installing hardwood floors you can choose either prefinished flooring or have the floors finished on site. Prefinished floors are ready to walking on as soon as they are installed and there is no mess or chemical odors that can come with finishing floors. That said, experts in hardwood floor installation in Acworth, Ga., recommend unfinished flooring for kitchens because the finish gets in the cracks and creates a seal against water and spills.

Woods

Another choice is whether to go with engineered woods or natural hardwoods. Engineered flooring can generally withstand a greater range of humidity and is generally more durable that natural hardwoods. If you want to go natural for aesthetic reasons, woods that come from sustainable forests like walnut, cherry and oak are generally recommended. For renovating an older home, mahogany, maple or ash might fit the décor better.

Old Hardwood

What about if you already have hardwood floors but they look terrible from years of heavy traffic? The same firms that are ready to install new hardwood floors in are ready to provide refinishing services for old floors. And with new dust-free refinishing techniques and water-based, low-odor finishes, the interruption to your daily life will be much less than with a similar job years ago.

Benefits

If you are looking for hardwood floor installation in Acworth, Ga., or any other big or small town in the US, experts will give you the same list of benefits. From durability, to the value added to your home to the ease of cleaning, there are few home improvements better than hardwood floors.


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