Wood flooring is a highly desirable commodity in any home these days. It can help you to make your home more attractive to potential buyers if you are planning to sell. It can give any room a wonderful lightness by attracting sunlight and make the room appear to be larger and more spacious than it actually is. However, it can only accomplish all of the above if it is fitted properly and looks the art. This is where acclimatisation of wood flooring becomes useful.

Although many people do not know about the acclimatisation of wood flooring, it is essential if your brand new wood floor is to settle properly. It is a well known fact that wood expands and contracts when the temperature fluctuates, as can be seen in any tree that is outside and exposed to the elements. It swells when hot and contracts when cold, and wood that is used for your flooring is no different. This could cause serious problems when it comes to laying wooden flooring because it will also expand and contract unless acclimatisation of wood flooring is allowed.

Acclimatisation of wood flooring requires you to place the wood in the room in which it is to go for at least 14 days before it is actually laid. During that period of time, the wood will become used to the temperature and humidity of the room and this will prevent any cracking and splitting when it is laid. The ideal way to acclimatise the wood flooring is to stack it piles with bearers in between the layers to allow the air to circulate around the wood naturally. It is as simple as that!

It is easy to think that a wood floor for a smaller room does not need acclimatisation but that is most definitely not the case. If you are laying a wood floor in any room, from the basement to the lounge to the attic, you need to acclimatise the wood first. Any wood floor can crack or even become uneven, which would ultimately make it look extremely ugly and also make it dangerous and prone to wear and tear. You do not have to do anything other than allow it to sit in the room so for very little effort, you can reap the rewards of having a beautiful and acclimatised wood floor in a fortnight’s time!

Why should you choose a Wood Floor instread of a carpet?

Well here’s what Factory Direct Flooring think as we definately beleive Wood Flooring is the best option…..

For a start Wood Flooring is more environmentally friendly that Carpet as most wood flooring comes from trees that are planted where as carpets tend to end up in landfills.  The life of a wood floor is also considerably longer when compared with carpets which also means then it is more cost effective in the long term.

Also Wood Flooring has a wider variety of usage in that it make better flooring than carpet for say a room where the moisture is higher i.e. basement or bathroom.

There are many, many more advantages of Wood Flooring so call Factory Direct Flooring to find out more……..

Now we appreciate not everybody knows as much about flooring as Factory Direct Flooring but we are passionate about flooring and take a real interest in what the future of flooring is.

I am pleased to say that the future of flooring has arrived at Factory Direct Flooring in that we use Click Flooring.  Ok, I hear you say the Click Flooring has been around for ages and you would be right but not Click Flooring for the more expensive floors such as Engineered Wood Flooring and Solid Wood Flooring. 

We at Factory Direct Flooring now sell revolutionary Click Flooring for Engineered and Solid Wood Flooring.  This significany reduces the cost of installing a floor and even makes it possible for a DIY person to install these floors.  This would have be unthinkable even 1 year ago.

Phone Factory Direct Flooring.  The future is already here……

Our customers often wonder what all the difference are between different flooring types such as engineered wood flooring, solid wood flooring and laminate wood flooring.  We have recently, via this blog site being discussing solid wood flooring and engineered wood flooring so what about laminate wood flooring?  Why buy laminate wood flooring?
Well the first reason, as best know, is cost.  Laminate Flooring is outstandingly good value for money (particularly when bought at Factory Direct Flooring) but what are the other reasons?

Laminate flooring is actually ‘greener’ than you might imagine.  It leaves a smaller footprint than say hardwood flooring or carpets.  Hardwood flooring requires mature trees to be cut whereas carpets must be replaced often leading to large amounts of carpets ending up in a landfill.  Laminate comes from man-made trees so no non man made tree is actually destroyed.

Laminate is easy to look after and maintain and take minutes to sweep.  This leaves you time to admire the floor and less time looking after it….Laminate Wood Flooring is therefore a lifestyle floor….. 
As flooring goes Laminate Wood Flooring is very easy to install.  The installation is not expensive and is a great choice for any DIYers out there.

Why not call Factory Flooring Direct who will advise you on Laminate Wood Flooring (or any other Wood Floor for that matter.

If you have decided that you want Engineered Wood Flooring fitted in your home then congratulations you have come to the right site. 

We at Factory Flooring Direct have a huge range of Engineered Wood Flooring.  Our engineered wood flooring selection includes:

 - Oak Engineered Flooring

 - Black Oak Engineered Flooring

 - Walnut Engineered Flooring

 - Beach Engineered Flooring

 - Cherry Engineered Flooring

 - Jatoba Engineered Flooring

 - Maple Engineered Flooring

 - Merbau Engineered Flooring

 - Ash Engineered Floooring

Should you wish to discuss any thing further then please give us a call.

What is Engineered Wood Flooring? 

A question we are often asked at Factory Direct Flooring is: What is Engineered Wood flooring? so we thought we would answer it here with as few words, and as simple a way, as possible.

Essentially Engineered Wood Flooring is a wooden plank that is manufactured and consists of a strong ply with a solid wood veneer coated on top.  The ply essentially supplies extra support to the solid veneer layer so that it does not suffer fro mwarping or cupping.  The benefit of this structures means that engineered wood flooring provide a greater level of flexibility when compared to solid harwood flooring which means it can be used in romms/areas with a higher moisture content.

We hope this makes sense.  To discuss engineered wood flooring or for that matter any thing to do with flooring the please call as at Factory Direct Flooring.  We are passionate about flooring and offer prices that cannot be beaten…….. 

What is Solid Wood Flooring? 

Like our last article on What is Engineered Wood Flooring, we at Factory Direct Flooring are often asked What is Solid Wood Flooring?  Again we would like to answer it, in as simple a way as possible……

Solid Wood Flooring are individual boards of floor which are made from one continuous plank of wood whereas engineered woods have the solid wood veneer coated on top od a ply base.

We at Factory Flooring offer Solid Wood Flooring at prices that cannot be matched…….