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- Area Rugs for Hard Surfaces (1)
- Armstrong Rural Living Hand Scraped Hickory (1)
- Autumn Style (1)
- Benefits (2)
- Benefits of flooring (1)
- Best Flooring Design (3)
- Best option for you (1)
- Big Box Stores (1)
- Bold and trendy colors (1)
- broadloom carpet with boarder (1)
- Budget (1)
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- Carpet Durability (2)
- Carpet Fiber (1)
- Carpet Fibers (1)
- Carpet Maintenance (1)
- Carpet Tips (2)
- Children's Rooms (1)
- Christmas and Holiday Area Rugs (1)
- Christmas Tree Protection (1)
- Church Flooring (1)
- Cincinnati Home & Garden Show (1)
- Cleaning Floors (2)
- Color in the home (1)
- Community (1)
- Concrete flooring (1)
- Custom Inlays (1)
- Design Trends (13)
- design trends (1)
- Dos and Don'ts (1)
- Embrace your floors (1)
- Fall Trends (1)
- Floor Heating (1)
- floor maintainence (10)
- floor maintenance (4)
- Flooring (6)
- Flooring affects indoor air (1)
- flooring best for allergies (1)
- flooring durability (1)
- Flooring Guide (11)
- Flooring in Different Rooms (2)
- flooring maintenance (1)
- Flooring Patterns (2)
- Flooring renovations (1)
- flooring types (1)
- Flooring Types (2)
- guide to flooring (1)
- Halloween Pumpkins (1)
- Happy Safe Thanksgiving (1)
- hardwood (1)
- Hardwood Flooring (6)
- hardwood floors (14)
- Hardwood Floors (3)
- Harvest Moon Midwest (1)
- High Traffic Areas (2)
- Holiday Area Rugs (2)
- Holiday Floor Maintenance (1)
- Holiday Season (2)
- Homeowner's Flooring Needs (1)
- Homeowner's Guide (1)
- Humidity (3)
- Improving air quality (1)
- Janka Hardness Scale (2)
- janka hardness scale (1)
- Kitchen Tile (1)
- Laminate (4)
- Laminate and Vinyl flooring (2)
- Large Format Tile (2)
- Laundry Room (1)
- Local flooring (1)
- Local Retailers (1)
- Low-VOC flooring (1)
- Luxury Vinyl (1)
- Making Rooms Look Larger (1)
- Milliken Area Rug Diamante Gray (1)
- Mirage Hardwood American Walnut Natural Herringbone (1)
- Mirage Hardwood Red Oak Charcoal (1)
- misconceptions about flooring (1)
- Mohawk Carpet Smartstrand Silk Amazing Inspiration Spiced Rum (1)
- Mohawk SmartStrand with DuPont Sorona (1)
- Moisture and Hardwood Flooring (1)
- Monocoat White 5% Oil Finish on Teak Flooring (1)
- Natural Carpet Fibers (1)
- New Website (1)
- Office Flooring (1)
- Parquet Floors (1)
- Patterned Carpet (1)
- Pet Proofing (4)
- Pile Cut (1)
- Pile Cuts (1)
- Professional Floor Installation (1)
- Protecting Hardwood Floors (1)
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- Reclaimed Hardwood Flooring (2)
- Reclaimed Tobaccowood (1)
- Repair Flooring (1)
- Replace Flooring (5)
- Replacing Floors (1)
- Replacing Hardwood (1)
- Retro (1)
- Room Appearance (1)
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- Santa Area Rugs Milliken (1)
- Scam Emails (1)
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Understanding the Janka Hardness Scale for Hardwood Floor Purchases
June 19, 2023
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flooring durability, hardwood, janka hardness scale
If you are looking to replace the hardwood floors in your home, then you probably have many questions about which species of hardwood is best for you. It can be difficult to sift through the hundreds of species and varieties of hardwood flooring to find an option that not only suits your lifestyle but that fits your style too.
Hardwood Flooring 101: Understanding the Janka Hardness Scale
March 6, 2023
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Hardwood Flooring, Janka Hardness Scale, Replacing Hardwood
Installing new hardwood can be an intimidating process. Not only do you have to find new floors that fit with your style, but you also need wood that is comfortable to walk on, will stand up to the wear and tear of your daily life, and is durable enough to last you for decades to come.
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Determining The Right Wood For Your Floors
October 27, 2020
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Janka Hardness Scale
Wood products have exquisite natural beauty and unique effects that tell complex stories. When selecting wood for your cabinetry or flooring, it’s good to understand the level of durability and differences between