Wood Flooring and The Benefits Of Installation

If you’ve considered swapping out your carpeting for wood flooring, congratulations. You’re on your way to making one of the best decisions a homeowner can make. Not only do many people find hardwood floors to look better than their carpeting, there are other, more tangible benefits as well. Benefits you may not know about. Because every decision you make as a homeowner must be weighed carefully, you know better than to make a choice just because of what the Jones family down the street did. You need hard, cold facts. Here are some of the overlooked benefits of taking out those carpets.

When comparing wood flooring to carpeting, a lot of people fail to consider the relative longevity of the two systems. Sure, in most cases carpeting is cheaper. But if those carpets only look really good for about ten years and your hardwood alternative looks good for a hundred years, you can easily see that price isn’t the only thing to consider. A good wood is durable, it looks great, and with the proper care it will continue to look great long after carpeting will have been trampled to death. 

Another thing to consider: allergies. More than 50% of Americans suffer from allergies of one type or another. You may not even know you have them. The most common allergens are forms of dust. Pet dander, insect dust, pollen, and so on. These dusts get trapped in your carpet fibers and regular vacuuming may not do everything to get it out. If you doubt this, find a powerful vacuum cleaner (one of the ones that cost over $1,000) and run it over your carpets right after you’ve done the same with the one you regularly use. See how much extra dirt and dust comes out. This is the dirt and dust that your regular vacuum will never touch. With wood flooring, you don’t have to guess whether or not things are getting cleaned and you’ll watch allergy problems disappear overnight.

Finally, something that every homeowner has to keep in the back of their mind when making decisions about their house: wood flooring increases the resale value of your home. Never has that aspect been more important. When the housing market is in a decline, you have to think of everything you can do to make your house keep as much of its value as possible, and add to it when you have the opportunity. Trading carpeting for hardwood does just that.