When you have hardwood flooring installed, you’re faced with an essential question about how it will be finished—will you have it sanded and finished on site or will you buy prefinished hardwood flooring? Each option has its advantages, as you can see in the following chart. Ultimately, the decision will depend on your needs and tastes.
Sand-on-Site: Anything Is Possible
Sand-on-site installation allows for complete customization—a powerful attraction to many homeowners. There are no limits to the imagination.
With sand-on-site, you will need to vacate your home during the sanding/finishing days, but we can schedule installations around your schedule, when you’re already not planning on being there. And we use a state-of-the-art dust containment system that vacuums about 98% of the dust completely out of the home, so it won’t be a mess as you’re enjoying your new hardwood floors.
Prefinished: Quality Matters
The most obvious advantage of prefinished hardwood floors is convenience. Because they’re finished at the factory, they are simply installed with no sanding required. There is no cure time, and you are able to stay in your home and walk on these floors as soon as they are installed.
Manufacturers are now producing a wide variety of quality prefinished products, including distressed and hand-scraped finishes. You can find prefinished flooring in numerous species, colors, textures, sheens, grades, and dimensions. With the multitude of styles now available, many homeowners are discovering that they may achieve the look they want with prefinished flooring.
We invite you to our showroom to check out some of the prefinished products that have more than satisfied our customers. We partner only with the best manufacturers of prefinished products and proudly stand behind their quality. The prefinished product lines we install include:
Preverco
Preverco is a premier manufacturer of high-end hardwood flooring, offering a wide variety of species, colors, widths, and grades, as well as the highest-quality finishes available. They also have a “cost-conscious” professional series available in six colors on four species.
DuChateau
Designed to reflect the styles found in Europe from centuries ago, DuChateau floors are antique-reproduction hard wax oil floors with natural changing grain patterns and hand-crafted textures.
An important point is that prefinished floors have a beveled edge, which allows for slight irregularities in the subfloor and slight differences in milling thicknesses. Without the bevel, sharp edges would be present. Beveled edges are a desirable look for some, but they are not for everyone.
