Hardwood Floors December 2024/January 2025

installed and immediately lived on. There is no curing time or need for additional prep or sanding of the floor on-site. Whichever option works best for you, it’s important to work with a qualified installer who can give insight on their capabilities throughout the process. Selecting the Best Hardwood Flooring Manufacturer There’s no debating this choice. Olde Wood Limited is one of the largest and most recognized wide plank flooring producers in the country, offering stunning floors from prized hardwood that has truly stood the test of time. Olde Wood’s streamlined in-house manufacturing uses state-of-the-art milling equipment to meet any speci fication and deliver any quantity of unfinished to pre-finished flooring in a host of standard sizes, grades, and finish types, long lengths, end-matched and ready for easy and immediate installation. Olde Wood Limited offers a complete, one-stop shop for any hardwood flooring need, including a pre-finish shop, high quality engineered flooring capabilities, output capabilities to fill any size order, and a vast assortment of colors, textures, surfaces, sizes, shapes, and accessories. Quality hardwood floors are here to stay but flooring trends will come and go. That’s why it’s our ongoing commitment to produce the most sought-after lines of traditional, antique reclaimed, and domestic hardwood floors in solid and engineered hardwood flooring available to today’s residential and commercial markets. This makes the decision on what floor to choose that much easier. Ready to offer your customers premium milled hardwood flooring produced by one of the nation’s most trusted manufacturers? Call Olde Wood today. 866-208-9663 | info@oldewoodltd.com

preference of a smooth floor versus a floor with texture. The most trending hardwood floor textures are smooth, hand scraped and wire brushed textured surfaces. The trick is learning the “whats and the why” behind your customer’s selected sample swatches. Was it the grain, natural color, or a combination of grain with a specific color? At Olde Wood Limited, we are manufacturing and creating these trending styles on our luxury floors. Solid or Engineered? Sometimes this can be a hard decision to make, but if we take a look at the environmental conditions we can make this an easy process. The nice thing about our flooring is that no matter what you decide, the look will be the same from the top. We use the highest grade engineered core plywood for our engineered flooring made exclusively in our facility everyday and this makes a big difference in regards to performance and quality. While each has its share of intrinsic benefits, the decision is usually based on a number of factors, including surface grade level, climate, traffic, and price. For decades, solid wood flooring was the standard and installed in almost every situation. Since then, many quality manufacturers have met the demand and challenges to produce an engineered floor, virtually indistinguishable from its solid counterpart. Using thick veneers and premium plywoods, Olde Wood Limited’s in-house engineering shop is able to create a lifetime engineered flooring product that will hold up to a variety of moisture, sub-grade location, heat and humidity factors. Olde Wood’s engineered flooring products not only include their domestic flooring lines, but their premium Antique Reclaimed lines as well. As a rule, if you are installing flooring below grade, near a large body of water, or in a harsh environment region, the best practice would be to consider an engineered hardwood floor over solid.

What Style? Antique Reclaimed vs Traditional Plank vs Domestic The Antique Reclaimed market has boomed in the last decade, however, materials are becoming less readily available for some manufacturers. Antique Reclaimed Wide Plank Flooring is very authentic, highly prized, and becoming more exclusive as each year passes. Traditional Milled Flooring is produced from mature, slow growth standing dead and fallen timber. Domestic Flooring is what we call graded lumber (e.g. Select White Oak, Clear White Oak, etc.) and is also available in a number of looks and widths. Determining which style you choose will be based on design elements, budget and taste. We suggest, instead of looking at thousands of options, decide on the color or look that fits your project and find an expert who can offer guidance in showing you a filtered assortment of options and styles that meet your criteria. Pre-Finished or Site-Finished? There are two key options regarding the finish of the floor, which involves a pre-finish at the manufacturer or having the contractor finish it on site. There’s a trade-off that has much to do with time and cost factors that go along with installation. It’s beneficial for contractors to know where their flooring is milled, and if selected, where it’s pre-finished. A site-finished floor is sanded and finished after the unfinished flooring is properly acclimated and installed - often with no bevel. Site finishing a floor also allows the highest level of customization and creativity. A factory-finished floor provides a product that is able to be