subject: Oak Hardwood Flooring for Elegant and High Durability [print this page] Oak Hardwood Flooring for Elegant and High Durability
Nowadays, many people prefer the oak hardwood flooring especially due to its affordability and elegance. A good factor while flooring is that you have choices for colors that includes dark brown heartwood, light tan and natural sapwood. The specialties of the oak hardwood are that it is stain resistant and long lasting. If you choose the while oak flooring, it will convert your room from dullness to richness.
You can choose the type of flooring you need as you have two-option mainly number one common grade and number two common grades. The first category, number one common grade hardwood floorings are available in many colors and selective woods. People select this for its rich appeal. The second category, number two common grade hardwood floorings are also available in variety of colors and it has its protective shield against wormholes.
The most commonly used and preferred oak hardwood flooring, which is used especially in churches, offices and homes is the wood plank flooring. The main reason for this is its availability of its various styles in softwood and hardwood categories and colors. The most common and famous types of hardwoods that is used nowadays are pine, oak and hickory. These are most common woods that are used widely nowadays.
The main reason why people prefer oak wood is its durability and easiness to clean and maintain. All you need to spend is couple of minutes of work that will make the flooring look amazing not just for the day but also for long years. It is always important carefully clean, the floor especially not cleaning it with detergents and warm water, as it can easily damage the floorings.
Cleaning with detergents to hot water can harm the wood and speed up its aging process, which will allow the wood to crack quickly. It is always important to place protector pads on the legs of the furniture's to ensure it does not spoil the finishing of the floorings.
As mentioned earlier, the oak hardwood flooring suits every room in the house. However, do not use these floorings for your bathrooms. Since there is lot of moistures on the floor in a bathroom, it can easily spoil and damage the wood floorings. It is not a good idea to make the bathroom flooring with fine oak wood. It will age quickly and you will find the discolored and cracked. These are the few things to keep in mind while using the oak food floorings.
