Solid Wood Flooring

Home Style Carpets & Flooring supplies and fits first-class wood flooring in Cheshire, North Wales and beyond. High-quality wooden floors that improve the appearance and feel of your rooms, our solid wood and engineered wood floors are crafted to enhance any space, adding warmth and style to make living areas feel larger and more welcoming to your household and guests.

What are the benefits of wood flooring?

Wood floors offer multiple advantages for homeowners. Offering visual appeal, wood is also strong and designed for years of use, as well as being simple to care for.

Aesthetic appeal

Wooden floors add a regal look and sense of warmth to homes, making rooms look attractive and inviting. With a diverse range of woods, colours and tones to pick from, homeowners can find floors choices that match their taste and décor perfectly. Unlike other floor finishes, real wood has natural charm displaying utterly unique grains, swirls and shades that provide personality and character.

Robust and hardwearing

Solid and engineered wood flooring is built to endure, thanks to its naturally robust and durable properties. With correct care, engineered wood flooring can serve for decades, while solid wood is known to last a lifetime, making both a worthy investment. Wood flooring as a feature also adds value to homes, increasing their asking price.

Simple to care for

Wood flooring is a low maintenance finish for homes that is simple to keep clean and looking at its best. Daily cleaning can be performed at home using simple household equipment, with a professional clean recommended annually to protect your investment.

Solid wood versus engineered wood

Solid wood floors involve planks made entirely of timber, while engineered wood boards involve a multi-layer construction. Their topmost layer is between 3 and 6mm thick and made of timber so they appear like a solid wood floor. However, the timber is bonded to several layers of plywood, making engineered wood less expensive and better able to cope with changes in temperature.

Is wood flooring suitable for underfloor heating?

Solid wood flooring is not suited to underfloor heating (UFH), but engineered floors is an excellent match. Its multi-layer construction and lower moisture content makes it an effective option, but homeowners should use floor sensors and ensure that the surface temperature of their wood flooring never exceeds 27°C.

Can you install wood flooring directly on concrete?

When fitting wooden floors over screed and concrete subfloors, several options exist. The most used method is bonding floor finishes to the subfloor directly with flooring adhesive, but not all floor types are a match for this method.

Perhaps the easiest option is floating an engineered wood floor on underlay, but not every floor can be floated. Finally, installers can create a wood subfloor, made with plywood or bonded battens secured to the subfloor.

How does a floating floor work?

Floating floors consist of engineered wood boards placed on top of underlay instead of being fixed to the subfloor. There are multiple reasons for choosing a floating floor, like installing a moisture resistant membrane or damp course, fitting UFH, adding a layer of noise dampening material or including more insulation.

How to maintain real wood floors

Cleaning wooden floors is low maintenance, but sticking to a regular care routine yields the best results. For daily cleaning, a hardwood mop or broom is ideal for sweeping. You can pretreat microfibre dust mops with an approved dusting agent to remove dirt while preventing scratches. Only vacuum wooden floors using a suitable cleaning attachment designed for them to avoid damage. As mentioned earlier, to safeguard your investment in wood flooring, its advised to book a professional clean at least once a year.

Are you looking for a solid wood or engineered wood flooring installation?

With a five-star reputation and more than 50 years of experience in the trade, we offer a comprehensive wood flooring service to homeowners in Chester, Oswestry, Wrexham and their surrounds. Starting with complimentary design that helps you select the right wood flooring, we have hundreds of wood samples you can view in the comfort and lighting of your home. We also offer free estimates with no obligation to buy quotes.

Our service supplies pre-treating, provision of materials and finishing and a stress-free fitting service by skilled professionals that includes removal and replacement of skirting boards. We also offer several optional extras like door trimming, removal of old flooring and removal and replacement of furniture.

For full support from start to finish for engineered wood or solid wood flooring, reach out to our trusted team at Home Style Carpets & Flooring.