Design & Build of SW Louisiana: Jan - June 2021

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Choosing the Best Hardwood Flooring For Your Home Provided by J&C Wood Products The natural beauty and versatility of hardwood make it an ideal medium for creative artist and installers to craft a multitude of patterns and designs in the flooring. Herringbone and Chevron patterns are always very popular but skilled artisans can inlay almost any pattern that can be dreamed up. Solid hardwood flooring allows for so much variety as well. Stain color options are virtually unlimited while the lighter colors, particularly the greys, are trending now. Longer and wider planks are more popular than the narrow widths that were common in houses built fifty plus years ago. Then there’s the architectural and design aspect of using hardwood flooring. A great example is when someone walks into a multi-family home. A true solid wood floor immediately gives off a higher-end, luxurious look. Compared to the many products that imitate it, hardwood flooring is synonymous with the term “greater resale value.” Also, because wood flooring is typically not specified in certain commercial sectors, such as healthcare or education, there is a sense of exclusivity with every true hardwood flooring commercial project. If you are gluing the flooring to a concrete slab, it is also extremely important to have your flooring glue meet certain high quality standards that will offer solutions that just don’t glue down the floor, but also provide sound dampening, self-leveling, emit no VOC’s, and provide a moisture barrier.

Solid Hardwood vs. Engineered Flooring • Solid wood flooring, as the name suggests, is made of solid wood throughout its thickness. It’s usually made of a hardwood species, such as oak, pine, or hickory, and its major advantage is that it can be sanded and refinished many times over the course of its lifespan. Engineered wood flooring looks very similar on the surface, but it is made from a relatively thin layer of hardwood (usually 3 mm thick real wood veneer bonded over plywood). Engineered flooring is somewhat less expensive than solid hardwood, but most types can be sanded and refinished only once since the surface hardwood layer is relatively thin. • The lifespan of solid hardwood flooring is 30 to 200 years as compared to engineered which is 15 to 30 years making the solid hardwood flooring more durable. • Lengths and widths obviously vary depending on one’s preference but solid hardwood flooring planks will run 12 to 16 feet long as opposed to 5 to 7 feet long for engineered planks. Longer plank runs make a room come alive because it gives the appearance of the tree being laid across the room with one continuous run like with 20 to 40 foot beams on ceilings. 76 DESIGN & BUILD 2021

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Clarifying Your Expectations article cover image

Clarifying Your Expectations

3min
pages 88-91
Making a House Your Home article cover image

Making a House Your Home

1min
pages 86-87
Choosing the Best Plumbing Company article cover image

Choosing the Best Plumbing Company

1min
pages 84-85
Gateway to Your Home article cover image

Gateway to Your Home

1min
pages 82-83
Door and Cabinet Hardware Designs article cover image

Door and Cabinet Hardware Designs

1min
page 75
Outdoor Finished Ceilings article cover image

Outdoor Finished Ceilings

2min
pages 72-74
Wood Look Porcelain Tile vs. Floating Vinyl Floors article cover image

Wood Look Porcelain Tile vs. Floating Vinyl Floors

1min
page 81
Choosing the Best Hardwood Flooring For Your Home article cover image

Choosing the Best Hardwood Flooring For Your Home

2min
pages 78-80
The Importance of Blower Door Testing article cover image

The Importance of Blower Door Testing

1min
page 76
What to Know When Purchasing LED Bulbs and Fixtures article cover image

What to Know When Purchasing LED Bulbs and Fixtures

1min
pages 70-71
Choosing and Caring for Your Fence article cover image

Choosing and Caring for Your Fence

2min
pages 64-65
Ready, Set, Renovate article cover image

Ready, Set, Renovate

3min
pages 66-67
Distinctive Details article cover image

Distinctive Details

1min
pages 28-30
There are Great Options for Window Treatments article cover image

There are Great Options for Window Treatments

2min
pages 26-27
Straight Talk about Big-Box Store Chemicals article cover image

Straight Talk about Big-Box Store Chemicals

3min
pages 54-56
Update Your Bathroom article cover image

Update Your Bathroom

2min
pages 60-63
Second Chances article cover image

Second Chances

5min
pages 33-37
Protect Your Home and Yard from Pests article cover image

Protect Your Home and Yard from Pests

5min
pages 13-25
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