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- 2024 Flooring Trends (3)
- Area Rugs for Hard Surfaces (1)
- Armstrong Rural Living Hand Scraped Hickory (1)
- Benefits (2)
- Benefits of flooring (1)
- Best Flooring Design (2)
- Big Box Stores (1)
- broadloom carpet with boarder (1)
- Carpet (14)
- 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)
- Cincinnati Home & Garden Show (1)
- Cleaning Floors (2)
- Concrete flooring (1)
- Design Trends (12)
- design trends (1)
- Dos and Don'ts (1)
- floor maintainence (10)
- floor maintenance (4)
- Flooring (2)
- flooring best for allergies (1)
- flooring durability (1)
- Flooring Guide (8)
- Flooring in Different Rooms (1)
- flooring maintenance (1)
- Flooring Patterns (1)
- flooring types (1)
- Flooring Types (1)
- guide to flooring (1)
- Halloween Pumpkins (1)
- Happy Safe Thanksgiving (1)
- hardwood (1)
- Hardwood Flooring (4)
- hardwood floors (14)
- Harvest Moon Midwest (1)
- High Traffic Areas (1)
- Holiday Area Rugs (2)
- Holiday Season (2)
- Homeowner's Guide (1)
- Humidity (1)
- Janka Hardness Scale (2)
- janka hardness scale (1)
- Kitchen Tile (1)
- Laminate (2)
- Laminate and Vinyl flooring (2)
- Laundry Room (1)
- Local Retailers (1)
- Luxury Vinyl (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)
- Monocoat White 5% Oil Finish on Teak Flooring (1)
- New Website (1)
- Pet Proofing (4)
- Pile Cut (1)
- Pile Cuts (1)
- Professional Floor Installation (1)
- Protection (2)
- Reclaimed Hardwood Flooring (1)
- Reclaimed Tobaccowood (1)
- Replace Flooring (3)
- Replacing Floors (1)
- Replacing Hardwood (1)
- Santa Area Rugs Milliken (1)
- Scam Emails (1)
- Seasonal Area Rugs (1)
- Slip-Resistant Flooring (1)
- Solid hardwood flooring (1)
- Styling (2)
- Summer Months (1)
- Tile (4)
- Tile and Stone flooring (1)
- Tips and Tools (18)
- US Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots (1)
- Versatile Flooring (1)
- vinyl flooring (2)
- Vinyl Flooring (3)
- Vinyl Floors Sheet Vinyl Flooring (1)
- water resistant flooring (2)
- White Oak Flooring (1)
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.