Wood flooring has never really gone out of style, but its popularity waxes and wanes throughout the years. But, 2020 resembles one of those years after the hottest craze in flooring is wood. There is no reason to wonder. Wood flooring is beautiful, durable, simple to take care of and gentle to bare feet. There is a wood flooring to match every form of decor. Our specialists at Polishing Parquet Flooring are very happy to install hardwood floors for residents and businesses in the London area and the surrounding areas.
Softwood Flooring and Hardwood Flooring
Softwood and hardwood do not refer to just how hard the wood is. Softwood floors means timber from gymnosperms like pine and spruce and timber describes deciduous angiosperms like walnut, walnut, hickory, and walnut. Softwood does often get a more rustic appearance to it, and hardwood will be dense. Then there are such sort-of-woods like bamboo and pine.
Hardwood flooring:
- Hickory is marketed as red or white, with red being the hardwood and white being the sapwood. Hickory is a strong wood with a beautiful straight or wavy grain. Hardwood is in the interior of the tree, and sapwood is the sexier wood between the hardwood and the bark.
- Oak is one of the most well-known woods for flooring. It's beautiful, straight-grained and durable. It is a household with several species, such as white, red and European.
- Ash also has a few species used for flooring, for instance, European, American and Japanese ash. The latter is prized for its"peanut" figure.
- Black walnut is a tough, medium-dense wood native to America. It gets its name due to the wealthy, purple-black of its heartwood.
Softwood Flooring:
- Southern yellow pine has a lovely, cream-colored sapwood, a dark heartwood, along with a beautifully figured grain. The wood of several kinds of trees is known as southern yellow pine, including slash pine, loblolly, and longleaf pine.
- Cypress has a nice, straight grain with a creamy sapwood and a gold, honey-brown heartwood. It is a strong and durable wood.
- Interestingly, beech is thought to be a kind of softwood by some people, though it's a deciduous tree. European beech includes a pale, pinkish brown heartwood and a straight catch and fine texture. American beech is somewhat more coarse and is reddish brown.
Others
Reclaimed Wood
This timber, which is also becoming more and more popular, is salvaged from older, derelict buildings such as mills, barns, and warehouses. It's an edge over new wood because it is more stable, with had a lengthy period to adapt to the climate.
Cork
Cork is the bark of a pine tree indigenous to the Mediterranean. The one thing people like about cork aside from its softness, longevity, and capacity to absorb noise is the oak does not have to be murdered for the cork to be obtained. The tree just grows another layer of cork in a few years.
Bamboo
Bamboo is not harvested from a tree but out of a sort of grass that grows very tall at a short amount of time. One species could grow 100 feet in five years. Bamboo is treated like hardwood when it is installed.
Get in on the hottest trend in flooring and have a hardwood floor and engineered hardwood flooring installed in your home or business now.
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