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When To Renovate Wood Floors

By Gary Walker


No matter the kind of floor that you have, there is a need to know what maintenance practices are required to ensure that your flooring stays durable. If your flooring is a wooden one, you should make sure that you stick to the book on ways to take care of your floor. After years, you should consider calling a contractor to renovate wood floors if you notice the following signs.

Water is one of the greatest enemies of wooden floorings. If your floor has constant exposure to water, it will eventually start to buckle then peel, and these will loosen parts of the floor making then unstable. Water damage on the floor will see you replacing it sooner than expected.

Refinishing is one of the ways which restores the floor and makes it as good as new. This process involves removing worn out surfaces by sanding it away. The contractor ten coats the floor with two or 3 layers leaving it shiny. Sanding, however, deteriorates the floor because it causes it to thin out and things like nails get exposed, and you are left with no other option than to replace.

Wooden floors come in many designs, and you might want to change into a more trendy design even before your current one reaches its lifespan. The traditional size of the wooden planks is 2.25 inches, but there are new longer sizes like the 4 or 5 inches ones. You can play around with these sizes, and if you want your room to look smaller, you can place then vertically and diagonally if you want it to look big.

The traditional wooden floors in the United States are usually made from an oak tree. Though they are a good choice; you might want to try out different wooden materials. Other materials that you might want to try out to get that new look include bamboo, Brazilian cherry and maple.

If your flooring has served you for many years and no kind of repair or refurbishing it makes it look any better, you should consider a new floor. Just like other organic materials, wood ages and rots and replacing it might be the only option. Before having your flooring replaced, you should know that.

Due to their absorbent nature, it would not be wise to have the floor installed when it is wet or humid. For you to attain good results, the wooden surface needs to be completely dry after installation, but if it is wet, it will absorb moisture and take longer to dry.

Your house will be messy, and there will be the smell of polyurethane all over. Take caution and cover your other furniture and valuables because no matter how hard the contractor might try to control the dust, it will still spread even into other rooms. So you should keep windows ventilated because the dust and smell might arouse allergies.

It will be really inconveniencing and uncomfortable staying in your house when the floor is being renovated. The contractor and this job, in general, required space and the rooms being worked on will have to be cleared out. For this reason, it would be wiser if you moved out until the job is done.




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