Spokane Hardwood Flooring
#1 Hardwood Floor Installers in Spokane, WA
We are the highest rated hardwood flooring installers in Spokane County. With 50 years of installation experience, our hardwood floor contractors can transform a home, office, or any room in the house to something truly special.
Hardwood is one of the most popular flooring products for a reason. It has been used in homes for centuries and is one of the best long term investments that can be made in residential property. It is classic, forever fashionable, environmentally friendly, and lasts for generations.
We work with the following hardwood flooring products:
- Solid hardwood
- Finished solid wood
- Unfinished solid wood
- Engineered hardwood
- Hardwood planks
- White Oak wood flooring
- Hickory wood flooring
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Our Solid Hardwood Flooring Installation
There is a lot to consider when purchasing hardwood. Engineered flooring vs Hardwood flooring, what type of wood for hardness and aesthetic appeal, thickness, length, width, and finished or unfinished surfaces. The expert team at Spokane Flooring Contractors can guide you through the options, show you examples, and provide you with education to make the right decision for you.
We specialize in hardwood installation like this recent example in Fairwood, near Mead. Our highly trained hardwood floor installers will take care of you in nailing or stapling your solid hardwood or floating, clicking, and gluing your engineered hardwood so you have the floor of your dreams.
Engineered Hardwood Flooring
Material:
- Engineered wood flooring contains a plywood or high density fiberboard (HDF) base with a wood veneer finish on top.
Benefits:
- This material is significantly less expensive than solid wood yet retains many of the same benefits, making it ideal for many households
- It excels in moisture resistance and stability making it ideal for bathrooms, kitchens, concrete subfloors, and in properties with radiant floor heating systems.
- Engineered wood flooring is more versatile, however, depending on the thickness of the top veneer it can only be refinished 1-3 times.
Benefits of Harwood
Timeless aesthetics:
- Hardwood has natural beauty to it. It has a feeling of warmth, elegance, and high character that never goes out of style and always just feels good to come home to. A crackling fire with hardwood floors is too good to be true on many winter nights in the Inland Northwest.
Versatility:
- It is highly compatible with almost all design ideas. Because there are so many types of wood, colors, grain patterns, levels of hardness, consistencies, and designs, hardwood works great with almost every scheme.
Long term investment:
- Studies show that around 70% to 80% of hardwood flooring cost can be recouped in residence value appreciation. Additionally, it helps make home sales faster. A buyer may not like a carpet in a residential property and decide to rip it out, but wood is a reason to buy the property in the first place.
Durability and longevity:
- Because of hardwood’s durability, it can be sanded down and refinished multiple times. This means after decades of kids, grandkids, and pets marking up a hardwood floor, it can be refinished and look brand new. To have century old hardwood floors is not uncommon.
Sanitary:
- Hardwood floors do not trap dust, pet dander, or mold making it ideal for allergy sufferers. If you can see it you can clean it. The only low maintenance cleaning you need to do is a simple sweep and gentle mop to remove and trap particulates making it a healthier, more sanitary living environment.
Sustainable choice:
- Hardwood is the most abundantly renewable flooring material available. Growth of hardwoods is faster than the rate of removal, making it an excellent environmental choice. Additionally, when hardwood is toward the end of its life cycle, it is often recycled into many new projects.
Hardwood Floor Installation Cost Per Square Foot
Subfloor Preparation:
- $1-4 per square foot to repair or level the existing subfloor.
Old Floor Removal:
- $1-3 per square foot to tear out existing flooring like carpet, tile, wood, or laminate
Engineered Hardwood Costs:
- Materials: vary significantly from $3-16 per square foot
- Labor: $3-10 per square foot
Solid Hardwood Costs:
- Materials: Also varies significantly from $5-20 per square foot
- Labor: $5-10 per square foot
Wood Flooring Characteristics
Each species of wood has different levels of hardness. Harder woods (white oak flooring or hickory hardwood flooring) offer better protection against damage from wear, scratches, and impact. Softer woods (white pine wood flooring or black cherry wood flooring) cost less and have a more rustic look.
Colors range from white pine to Brazilian cherry, but in Spokane, white oak hardwood flooring has been especially popular.
Ascending from softer to harder woods here is an example of common wood planks:
- White pine
- Black cherry
- Black walnut
- Red oak
- White ash
- White oak
- Cypress
- Maple
- Hickory
- Brazilian chestnut
Thickness:
- Thicker wood flooring can be resurfaced and refinished more times while thinner wood floors can still be recoated. Common sizes for thickness are ½”, ⅝”, and ¾”.
Length and Width:
- Hardwood planks are typically 3’ to 3.5’ long. For a small room consider shorter planks for a larger feel. For general installation, longer pieces are more seamless.
- Wood planks are either ¾”,2 ¼” wide, or 6” wide. Each has advantages and disadvantages, talk with us for more information and ideas. You can even mix and match width sizes.
Wood Types:
Solid hardwood flooring is exactly that. It’s cut from one solid piece of wood and is more expensive, but can pay for itself with simple maintenance and comes as either finished or unfinished.
- Finished solid wood flooring is ready for installation since they come already sanded, stained, and finished.
- Unfinished solid wood flooring is more customizable and is sanded and stained on site.