DANVILLE — When choosing a new wood flooring product for your home, you’ll need to consider several factors to make the right decision. A good starting place is to consider the size and character of your household, as this will inform the criteria on which you’ll base your decision. For example, if you have an “active” household with young children and pets, you’re going to have very different criteria than a retired couple.
One of the most important characteristics to look for in a flooring product is durability. If you have an active household, you’ll want a floor that can stand up to wear—a dense product like oak or maple as opposed to softer wood like poplar or alder. Additionally, you may want to consider a flooring style that will hide marks and other signs of wear, such as a distressed wood floor. Since distressed wood is intentionally given a worn aesthetic, wear and tear will enhance its character rather than diminish it.
Another, more design-centric consideration for hardwood flooring is plank size. The width and length of the flooring planks you choose can have a surprising impact on your home’s visual aspect. Longer planks can add length to your home, while wide planks go well with an open concept floor plan.
In addition to the product itself, you’ll need to choose a finish for your new hardwood floor. There are three different finishes used on hardwood floors: urethane, UV oil and oil-based. Each has different maintenance requirements and performs differently over time. For example, an oil-based finish requires the most maintenance of any finish; however, if properly maintained, it can perform the longest.
As you can see, there are numerous factors to consider when choosing a hardwood flooring product. To make an informed choice, consult a local hardwood flooring expert who can further educate you about your options.

Considerations for Choosing a Wood Flooring Product

Discover essential tips and considerations for selecting the perfect wood flooring product for your home.

Considerations for Choosing a Wood Flooring Product by Dan Yorke

By Dan Yorke of {BR} Danville Hardwood Company

A Simple Way to Maintain Your Hardwood Floors

Choosing the Right Hardwood Floor Cleaning Product

Video: Choosing a Hardwood Floor Cleaning Product


prior to cleaning your hardwood floors
you'll want to make sure you're using
the right product to learn more we're in
Danville with Scott Peck of Danville
hardwood company speaking on behalf of
our diamond certified expert contributor
Dan York installing hardwood floors is a
big investment so proper care and
maintenance are important whether you've
installed a solid hardwood floor or a
durable engineered it's important to
know which clean product to use it's
also important to know which finish was
used on your floor then you would know
which clean products use we have three
different finishes for our floors
urethane UV oil and oil-based all three
take a different cleaning product if you
were to buy urethane finish for we were
referred to our Bona cleaning kit you
would just spray the mop head once and
wipe the floor clean other oil floors
actually require the manufacturer's
clean product while they're provenza
they provide us with a floor care kit
and our du chateau with a maintenance
oil kit this is very important and
critical keeping your floors and proper
care and looking their best
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Video: Cleaning and Recoating Wood Floors

to keep your hardwood floors looking
their best it's important to refinish
them on a routine basis today we're in
Danville with diamond certified expert
contributor Dan York of Danville
Hardwood company to learn more a lot of
customers don't realize there's an
option to refinishing a floor if you
maintain your floor properly and about
every 5 to 10 years have a company come
in and use a dirt Dragon which is a
machine that thoroughly cleans the floor
apply a bonding agent in a Comm coat of
commercial finish it prolongs the life
of your floor and you get to save a lot
of money you don't have to go through
the sanding and the refinishing it only
takes one day in most cases It's a
Wonderful option that people should use
to maintain their
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Video: Hardwood Floor Care


my expert tip today is regarding the
hardwood care and maintenance
it's very important to make sure that
you are keeping up with the care and
maintenance for your hardwood floor you
want to make sure that you're using the
right products and the right tools to
keep up with its care make sure that
when you use the products that you're
using them thoroughly and carefully you
want to make sure that you use a vacuum
cleaner to suck up any dirt or debris
that could be on your floor make sure
that the vacuum cleaner doesn't have a
beater bar or this could potentially
scratch your floor next you want to use
a mop or a cleaning kit of some sort to
help pick up loose items with this you
can either spray the floor directly or
spray the mop and thoroughly clean the
floor with it as much as you can dirt is
the number one reason that floors can
deteriorate you want to make sure that
you're using the right products because
certain suppliers have certain cleaning
products one effective urethane cleaning
solution we carry is a Bona hardwood
cleaner it's one of the most effective
ones that we carry on our market and and
certainly available to all of our
consumers please avoid using polishes or
excessive amounts of water as this can
damage the hardwood as well avoid
wearing shoes with high heels or hard
soles on wood floors as these can cause
scratches as well you may place mats or
rugs and high traffic areas to prevent
dirt and debris from being tracked on
the floor we recommend that you clean
your floors bi-weekly by following these
steps you can keep your wood floors
looking beautiful for years to come

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Video: Hardwood Sanding and Finishing Guidelines


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tip on hardwood flooring has to do with
sanding and finishing of all hardwood
floors this can either be a new floor
that has been installed that is raw and
that needs to be sanded and finished or
refinishing existing hardwood floors
that have been sanded and finished in
the past hardwood floors need to be
sanded three times according to National
wood flooring Association specifications
and it starts with a lower grit of
sandpaper and works its way up usually
to about 120 grit once we have sanded
the floors three times we can stain a
floor any color that the customer would
choose as well as use different floor
finishes and there's pros and cons to
all of these products there's oil-based
polyurethane finishes which is kind of
more of the old school way to finish
floors which has kind of an ambering
look to it and the VOC levels are a
little bit high so it's a little bit of
a stinky process takes 24 hours for
those coats to dry before we can apply
other coats whereas water-based finishes
they actually have a low to zero VOC
level which means it's a little bit more
eco-friendly product and we can coat
those multiple times in one day there's
also newer processes that are like
European hard wax oil where we can
pre-treat a floor after it's been sanded
and then a one step process of buffing
in European hard wax oil into that which
creates a bond with the tannins that are
already existing in the wood flooring
general rule of thumb if it's been 10 to
15 years and the floors are starting to
get pretty beat up I think you're about
ready for a refinishing or resurfacing
of your hardwood floor
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Video: The Impact of Floorboard Length


when choosing a hardwood flooring
product one often overlooked attribute
to consider is board length
today we're in Danville with diamonds
certified expert contributor Dan York of
Danville hardwood company to learn more
one thing that is often overlooked in
choosing a hardwood floor is the board
lengths a lot of the the prefinished
hardwood floors come as as long as 48
inches or only up to 48 inches at
danville hardwood company we have
manufacturers that have random lengths
to 12 foot long when you see a house
that has long boards in it and make such
an impression when you walk in people
often don't understand why they love
this floor so much they don't realize
it's not so broken up it's a long
stretch of hardwood it's a very nice
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