Should you have a wooden floor in your home?

Yes, wooden floors make our home truly unique. They have an attractive finish that suits just about any type of homes. Our wooden floors make us happy because they make our life comfortable in so many ways. Here are some benefits that wooden floors offer:

• Long lasting floors, they can last for decades. With little maintenance, you can keep your wooden floor at its best for longer years.
• Class and character. Wooden floors add a touch class like no other flooring can and give great character to your home. Wooden floors are perfect for modern minimalist house right through to your classic heritage home giving a strength yet classy ambiance to it.
• Increase of home’s market value. Wooden floors are highly sort after and add value to your home.

If you are concerned about the environment and your families health and lets face it today we all have to be; then a wood floor is perfect for you.

Wooden floors offer homeowners fantastic environment benefits too.

• Save water and energy
• Healthier environment
• Recyclable

Save water and energy

Wooden floors last for a very long time so they don’t need to be replace every 5 or 10 years so this uses much less water and energy. Wood for flooring can also be grown in plantations as a renewable crop saving water again.

Healthier indoor environment

Dust mites don’t get trapped in wood like they do in carpet, a quick sweep out with a regular weekly vacuum with keep your floor in tip top conditions. Not trapping the dust mites is great for asthma and allergy suffers. Wood floors don’t give off toxic ordours like some flooring can. You don’t have to worry about your family’s health because indoor air quality is better with wooden floors.

Recyclable

Wooden floors can last for hundreds of years. With a bit of TLC you shouldn’t have to replace your wooden floor in your lifetime. If you decided to replace your wooden floor eg change of use for the room, renovating and making the room bigger etc, then you can recycle the floor boards. Use them to build great furniture pieces, outdoor furniture or if all else fail burn them as firewood.  With wooden floors, you always get something from it when its service life ends.

Should you have a wooden floor in your home?

Yes most definitely with wooden floors, the options are endless! Call DIY Parquetry, Timber and Cork Flooring and get a free measure and quote today!