Of all a home's features that are both structural and decorative, flooring has perhaps the most difficult job. It endures constant use and abuse, yet is expected to last a lifetime while keeping up appearances. For this reason, selecting flooring involves many considerations: durability, looks, maintenance requirements, cost, and ease of installation, to name a few.
Because flooring needs to perform various functions in different areas of the home, materials choices also tend to vary by room. For example, though stone and tile are popular for areas that receive heavy use
and are exposed to moisture, such as an entry, these very hard materials can take a toll on your legs and back after long periods of standing. So more forgiving yet waterproof materials, such as vinyl and cork, are often chosen for kitchens, baths, and play areas. Hardwood can be used nearly anywhere.
Before any type of finishing flooring is installed, we thoroughly inspect the substrate it will be applied over, as well as the support framing below. The new materials should be installed on a base that is free of moisture, is in sound condition, and is flat, smooth, and strong enough to support them.
As sturdy subfloor is especially important for rigid materials like ceramic tile that can't flex.
Installing a new material will affect the finished height of the floor.
Wood flooring is thicker than resilient and most engineered wood flooring, tile can vary widely by type, and carpeting comes in many thicknesses. Different materials also require different substrates, some thicker than others. If you lay a new floor atop an old one, you add even more height.
If you can, try to minimize raising or lowering the new floor in relation to the floor around it. You may be able to build up the subflooring to adjust for thin materials or choose a thickness of flooring that doesn't add more height but is acceptable to you.
Discuss with us the bet ways to handle this and we will give you the correct advice and do the proper job. Also we will let you know what kind of thresholds you will need. Thresholds smooth transitions from one flooring material to another, and make for more graceful changes in height between rooms, when it's unavoidable. Wood, tile, and marble are most often used for thresholds. They are available in stock shapes and sizes or may be fabricated on site by us. Preformed metal and plastic transition strips are also available for thin flooring materials like laminates and tile, and for installed carpeting, but the are not always things of beauty.
Though there are many kinds of flooring, they can be grouped into a few key categories: wood, resilient, tile, decorative concrete, and carpet.
Wood, the traditional favorite has evolved into a spectrum of products beyond the original solid sprit and plan materials of yesteryear. So-called engineered wood flooring--laminated, compressed, or reconstituted wood products topped with a thing layer of solid wood--are the fasted growing category. Most come finished and offer good value, as well as manufacturer warranties.
If you are considering to renovate your flooring, or perhaps selling your home and are looking into renovating
your existing flooring to sell your home at a better price, or whatever the case maybe, contact us today and one of our floor renovation specialists will be able to
to assist you further.
We service wide range of areas within the Ontario Region that include:
