Real wood floors are the only constant you find in million-dollar homes. Do not take my word for it, ask your friend the realtor, most of us have one or more. So, if engineered wood and laminate are so great, why are they not in these homes? Are real wood floors more expensive than engineered? They are if you believe what you find on the Internet, seriously the entire internet. More propaganda exist around the subject of your floors than any other product for your home. In fact, finding someone to tell you 100% of the truth is difficult, as some of you may understand after your own search
Say no to bundles
Installation included always means one thing, it will be fast. Everyone wants to offer bundled services that rarely include real wood for two basic reasons, time, and money. How many trips does a real wood floor take versus engineered or laminate? To clarify, we are referring to a site finished real wood floor, not premanufactured aka prefinished. Well of that depends upon the type of finish, for example Monocoat requires less trips than Tung Oil. Even that distinction depends upon the number of Tung Oil coats, not Monocoat though right? Just seeing if you are paying attention because this next part is important.
So, if Jane the contractor can come to your home twice versus four or ten times, make more money and give you a worthless warranty which will she choose? Survey says, 80% do not offer site finishing at all and about 5% specialize in real wood. How did this happen? When did we start believing fake is better than real? Do you think fake floors are green because we are not cutting down trees? That is 100% the opposite of the truth- seriously. To find out more follow us to Real wood is Green give us a call for more discussion.
Researching Harwood Floors Online
If you are researching hardwood floors online you may notice that the term does not mean solid real wood floors, not at all. You may find laminate hardwoods, two words that define oxymoron. Researching floors is wading through a sea of bad choices if adding value to your home is the goal. Only solid real wood floors are an investment, the rest are simply a future liability, yours or the next homeowners. Here is one example of the worst offenders, Angies List. Not because the people are bad but because the run their business as if they are helping homeowners, not entirely true. Their customers are not homeowners but the professionals who list their services, you know the 95% who want you to buy LVT?
Yes, we have prefinished floors without any production lead time including Bayou Rustic and two trusted sources. Bayou Rustic manufacturers finished to order heart pine using SYP Direct floors, exclusively, lead times are based on type of finish. However, years in this business allowed SYP Direct to create a powerful pair of sources for manufacturer direct pine floors. These products include but are not limited to, prefinished #2 Caribbean Pine which can be found with three options, Fawn, Vintage and Natural.
