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Hi, I'm Tim Gipson, I'm going to talk to you about how to choose hardwood floors. Now,
a couple things come into consideration when you look at choosing your hardwood floors.
The first is the budget that you have, and then the second is the type of surface that
you're putting it down on. If you're on a slab then you're going to have to have either
a glue down type of flooring or a floating type of floor whereas if you're on a crawl
space or you're doing an upper level floor where you're putting down onto a wood subfloor,
then you have the option of doing a nail down application. Now when you're choosing your
hardwoods, you have hardwood such as this which are a three quarter inch, in this case
an oak flooring that is prefinished. When you buy a pre-finished slab floor like this,
and you put it down, it has a tongue and groove where they hook together, and you use a special
nailer which actually nails down into the cleat here into your subfloor and secures
this. One good thing about using the prefinished flooring like this is once it's nailed down,
then it's ready to go. Now you can also buy this flooring unfinished, where once it's
down then you have to actually sand it, stain it and refinishing it. So if you want a lot
of options or if you want your options as far as achieving a certain look that might
be your best way to go. Now, in this room here, we're actually on a slab in this house
so this particular floor is a hardwood floor but it's actually a composite hardwood floor
which has these four inch slats which is a tongue in groove but it's more or less as
a snap together, and this is a floating floor which is good to use 'cause it's easier installation,
if you're a do it yourselfer, the labor is a lot lower, if you are contracting this out,
and it works well over a slab. So essentially it just floats to the edges of the room. And
the way it holds it in place. One thing that's good about that is that if you have to change
this down the road, it's a little bit easier or a lot easier to do than if you have a glue
down application. So again, in selecting your hardwood floors you want to look at your budget,
how much you want to spend, and then you want to look at finish. You can go with an oak,
you can go with a cherry, you can go with a maple, so you want to look at that look
that you're trying to achieve and the colors that you're trying to achieve. And a good
place to go if you go to a factory outlet or a direct outlet or something like that,
or your home improvement stores, you can look and see what your options are. So I'm Tim
Gipson and that's some tips on how to select hardwood floor.