Hardwood Flooring in Fort Smith, AR

Hardwood flooring looks beautiful and adds enduring value. While having hardwood requires additional effort on your part, it has countless benefits and can enhance your home for decades if properly maintained.

Alford’s Carpet One Floor & Home of Fort Smith, AR, is your local hardwood retailer, carrying all the best hardwood flooring brands. We even offer waterproof hardwood options. If you’re considering hardwood floors, here are things you need to know.

How to Style Your Hardwood Flooring

Hardwood flooring is at home in spaces both contemporary and traditional. A genuinely eclectic flooring, hardwood floors can be customized by merging your favorite:

• Styles
• Colors
• Finishes
• Lengths
• Widths
• Gloss Levels
• Stains

What Types of Hardwood Floors Are There?

Variety is the name of the game when it comes to modern hardwood flooring. Today, hardwood flooring is made from all types of domestic and exotic tree species, including:

• Pine
• Maple
• Cork
• Bamboo
• Oak

Every tree species offers varying hardness levels to always bear in mind, so it’s always wise to do your research before scheduling a hardwood installation.

What is Engineered Hardwood?

Many homeowners now opt for engineered hardwood instead of solid hardwood.

• Solid hardwood has a uniform wood construction.
• Engineered hardwood is made from individual layers of natural wood fused together. Because of this construction, engineered hardwood is more dimensionally stable than solid hardwood.

Engineered hardwood, therefore, can manage moisture and impacts better than solid hardwood.

Planning Your Hardwood Installation

Hardwood flooring isn’t a traditional choice for the bathroom or kitchen. Still, modern innovation has given us a wide range of pretty and practical choices for any other interior space.

• If you love solid hardwood, remember that this type of flooring requires consistent climate control.
• Engineered hardwood flooring offers a significant deal of flexibility, and it can be installed below grade.
• There are now even waterproof hardwood options that are appropriate for large families and pet owners.

Regardless of type and setting, your hardwood floors will fare much better if installed by a professional.

What to Expect From A Professional Installation?

Preparing for the arrival of our installation crew is critical to your floor’s success. Expect loud noises and plenty of dust in the process. Remove small items from the installation room and maintain an interior climate between 65-75 degrees.

Relax, and let our crew manage the rest, including:

• Acclimating your floor to your home
• Cleaning and preparing your subfloor
• Staggering butt joins to ensure a natural flow
• Providing cleaning products and a hardwood care manual

Our Hardwood Floor Selection

Alford’s Carpet One Floor & Home is proud to be part of North America's best-loved flooring cooperative. We’re proud to serve the hardwood flooring needs of clients throughout Sebastian County and Northwest Arkansas. Please visit us soon at 1020 Lexington Avenue in Fort Smith, AR, to learn more about our hardwood flooring collection.

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