Best Reasons to Install Hardwood Floors

An emerging trend these days is healthy living. More and more people are making smarter decisions about the food they eat, they exercise they partake in and the decisions they make that result in a healthy lifestyle. What many people don’t realize is that the cleanliness of your home can have a tremendous impact on health and well being. One step many homeowners can take to improve their home’s cleanliness and thus their health is installing hard wood floors in their home as opposed to carpet.

Hardwood floors have a great deal of advantages over carpet that make them a smarter and healthier choice. However, before we get into those let us first deal with the ascetics of hard wood floors. There is no beating the elegance and quality of a properly installed hard wood floor. The deep colours of wood and the steadiness of the material make them an excellent choice for any home. By adding a rug or small carpet on top of a hard wood floor you can create a stylish environment that matches the pages of a home design magazine. There is simply no comparing the eye pleasing design of well placed hardwood floor, it beats out carpet every time.

There are many disadvantages to installing a carpet over a hardwood floor. The first deals with cleanliness. As anyone who has ever had a carpet knows, they are hard to keep clean. Having a carpet in house forces you to constantly be vacuuming. Carpets not only attract dirt and dust they absorb them. Even if you vacuum once a week you will still not be able to fully clean the dirt that is trapped in the fibres of the carpet. On top of that if you ever spill a drink, or track mud or dirt on a carpet it is incredibly difficult to clean the stain. In some instances a liquid can soak underneath the carpet and damage the floor. The only way to fully clean a carpet is by washing it by either hiring a company or renting a carpet cleaning machine. However, this may prove to be a timely and costly decision so most carpet owners rarely choose to do this.

Hardwood floors on the other hand are durable and easy to clean. A regular routine of sweeping or vacuuming a hardwood floor is more than sufficient to successfully clean the floor of any dust or germs that may appear. In addition after sweeping or vacuuming going over the floor with a wet swiffer or similar product will leave the floor sparkling clean. Unlike with carpet when you clean a hardwood floor you can be 100% confident that there are no germs or bacteria lingering. On top of that if anything is ever spilt on a hardwood floor such as food or drinks, it is very easy to clean. Unlike carpet with soaks in and absorbs spills a hardwood floor repels it and allows for a quick and easy clean up. Of course you can always add polish to a hardwood floor to keep it looking shiny and new.