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Wood Flooring Options
The past 20 years have brought about more flooring options then ever.
Traditionally a wood floor meant strip wood nailed, sanded and finished in place -- a time consuming, labor intensive, messy operation.
While there are still plenty of traditional wood floors installed, there are now some other options.
Prefinished flooring has cut out the mess and a fair amount of the labor.
These floors may be nailed down or just edge glued (floating).
When they're down, they're done.
Typically the material cost of prefinished flooring is more, but the labor is less so the price of the prefinished versus the traditional wood floor are not far apart.
If you install your own, the savings are greater, of course.
The down side to prefinished flooring is that while they're very durable, typically they can be refinished only one or two times.
The floating floors are laid over a thin foam pad and some folks object to the slight "soft" feel of the floor when walked on.
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