Hardwood Floors In Winter

A hardwood floor distinguishes a home more than almost any other aspect of décor. You can create any influence that pleases you with the versatility of wood. Hardwood floors, in winter, let you bring the warmth and beauty of nature indoors where it welcomes family and friends. At texas floors, you may choose an engineered floor that suits your preference for oak or maple, cherry or mahogany, teak or bamboo. We offer professional installation that preserves your warranty for the enjoyment of beautiful, durable floors.

Hardwood Floors in WinterWelcoming a Hardwood Floor into Your Home

You can achieve the look of solid wood flooring with engineered wood floors and satisfy your environmental concerns at the same time. Forbes Home notes that both require about the same maintenance to last almost as long with proper care. Our installation creates the same feel and appearance of a solid wood floor for your home.

Enjoying a Harmonious Environment Year-Round

Wood prefers the same temperature range and moisture level that you enjoy, making it a perfect choice for your home. As a natural material, wood reacts to its healthy home environment that maintains a level of humidity in the 40-50 percent range. During the winter, it may need to stay near 40 percent and increase to 50 percent during the summer months. The heat that keeps your family warm and comfortable tends to dry the air, making wood flooring lose moisture as well.

Considering Seasonal Concerns

Awareness of the changes in the weather can help protect the well-being of your elegant hardwood floors and prevent the need for repair. Wood reacts to environmental conditions, and it requires comforts similar to yours. As winter approaches, you can provide the protection that wood requires. For example, electric heat and wood stoves can create dry conditions that you may lessen by running a humidifier. Whether you choose a portable appliance or one that can treat your whole house, a humidifier increases the humidity level. Indoor plants thrive in moist air, and dampness in the air can provide other benefits as well. If you spend extended periods away from home for business, pleasure or to escape the weather, your engineered floors need care until your return.

Preventing Your Hardwood Floor from Splitting or Checking

Even as you may experience the painful condition of split lips in the fall or winter, wood can react to extreme conditions similarly. Dryness creates a level of stress beyond its ability to tolerate. As a result, wood weakens and becomes brittle. The unsightly result can appear on solid flooring as well as engineered wood. Low humidity creates small cracks that can appear almost anywhere on the floor’s surface and deface its beauty.

When you realize the commonalities that you share with wood, it can help you maintain awareness of its need for humidity and moderate temperature. The natural material in engineered products or solid flooring needs to retain the qualities that let it survive as a tree in the woods. During the fall and winter, a humidity level of around 40 percent can provide the conditions it prefers.

Taking Care to Prevent Gapping

Changes in the moisture level of the air in your home can create an unfortunate situation on your hardwood flooring that becomes noticeable. When the wood planks shrink as moisture diminishes, it creates gaps and open spaces. A repair may occur when the humidity rises to a proper level, allowing the boards to expand and close the gaps. Our expert installation services ensure the placement of planks with efficiency and professionalism.

Choosing a Fall or Winter Installation

Boards shrink during the winter when cold and dry air provides optimum installation conditions. Our expert installers acclimate the boards before carefully placing them in your home. Even though texas floors can install a hardwood floor in any season, we recommend fall as the best time. The cooler air has less moisture, and new wood reacts favorably to it. In addition, the atmospheric mix of temperature and humidity levels produces optimum conditions for installation. Our expertise and professionalism enhance your enjoyment of many years of durable, beautiful flooring.

• Providing the Care a Hardwood Floor Requires

A commitment to enhancing the loveliness of your home with hardwood flooring reflects your appreciation of nature’s beauty. The timeless elegance it offers blends well with all decors and creates an ambiance that reflects your knowledge and sophistication. A deep understanding of the enduring quality of wood reinforces the need to care for it.

Regular and loving care allows wood flooring to maintain its lustrous shine for many years to come. Maintaining a humidity level of around 40 percent in the fall and winter helps protect your hardwood floor from dryness. The quality of your maintenance routine can help prevent the need for repair over the long term.

• Sweeping, Vacuuming and Deep Cleaning

Your choice of cleaning equipment matters and prevents creating scratches on the beautiful surfaces. A vacuum that has a soft floor attachment gives you an easy way to remove any speck of dirt on the floor.

Advances in dry mop materials give you choices of microfiber products in convenient forms. Occasional deep cleaning with a commercial hardwood cleanser can provide the effect you want without damaging the surface.

• Cleaning up Spills

When you think about an old remedy that recommends using Coke to remove battery acid, it can provide a warning about spills. Your floors deserve the attention that you give to your favorite rose. While durable, tough and hardy, both respond well to your understanding of what they need.

• Decorating with Area Rugs

Dirt, grains of sand and moisture that clings to feet as friends and family come inside can cause extreme damage to hardwood flooring. A rug at each entry guards against potential damage. A choice of style and fabric may enhance the entrances and encourage everyone to use them to protect the floors.

In the interior, the need for rugs to prevent furniture from damaging the surface offers appealing decorative options. Whether you prefer a traditional American influence or one from Japan, Spain or Scandinavia, you can find elegant rugs that protect your floor. The presence of area rugs can prevent the tendency to move furniture, creating scratches that mar the beauty of nature’s elegance.

Texas Floors Owners

Choosing a Trustworthy Flooring Contractor

At Texas Floors, our owners qualify as Master Certified Floor Inspectors, and their insistence on excellence guides the quality that makes us a leader in the field. We provide a hands-on experience that ensures each customer receives the personal attention of one of our owners. Friends since high school days, Ryan and Jason built a reputation for keeping promises and building customer relationships built on excellent work. Our pricing reflects our dedication to honesty and transparency, and we offer finance options for qualified customers. We honor a long-standing commitment to serving the community with quality, integrity and professionalism.