Why Choose Oak Flooring
When looking for a new type of flooring for your home, whether you are refinishing a home that you already own or having a brand new one built, one of your options will be solid oak flooring. This has been a popular choice for decades, with examples of it found in homes built in the 1920s and earlier. You will find that solid wood flooring has some large advantages over other types of flooring, so you should seriously consider it before you decide what you want to use at your house.
First of all, solid oak flooring is much thicker than laminate flooring. Laminate floors are made to look like wood, but they are really just particle board with a sticker on top. They are very cheap, but you see this cheapness in quality as well as in the price. It just does not look real, and it does not hold up like a real floor. When you have solid wood flooring, it will not be destroyed by the family dog or games that your children are playing, but laminate floors fall apart much more quickly.
You may also want to consider solid oak flooring because you will know that you are getting a type of flooring that you can enjoy for the rest of your life. With laminate wood, you probably will have to replace it in 10-15 years. You cannot sand it down and refinish it like you can with solid wood flooring. What if they no longer make the same laminate pattern when you need to replace a section? You either have to replace it with a color that does not match, or you have to replace everything. With real wood, you can just refinish it and make it look like new again.
Finally, you should select solid oak flooring over carpet because it is so easy to clean. One spilled cup of juice or glass of wine can ruin your carpet forever. With solid wood flooring, you can just mop the juice or wine up and go on with your life. As long as the wood is sealed properly with oil, polyurethane, or another type of sealant, it will not absorb the liquid or the color. Cleanup takes less time, and you do not have to live with the faint shadows of old stains that tend to live on like ghosts when you have a carpet.