Three Reasons A Hardwood Floor Is A Good Investment
Whether you are deciding on the flooring in your new home or replacing existing flooring, you know that there is a vast array of options available to you. Often, the sticker price of a flooring option becomes the deciding factor. However, there is one flooring option that is not just an expense—hardwood plank flooring is actually an investment.
Here are three important reasons why:
LIFETIME COST
While less expensive up front, a carpet floor requires a significant amount of maintenance to last for not so long of a time. Keeping a carpet floor in good shape is going to mean not only busting out the vacuum at least once per week, but also having it professionally cleaned every year or so. In exchange for your constant upkeep and yearly expense, a carpet floor can only be expected to last from ten to fifteen years before it will need replaced.
In contrast, a hardwood floor requires very minimal upkeep and will last a lifetime. Depending on wear levels, a hardwood floor may need refinished approximately every twenty year, but solid hardwood should not need replaced for over one hundred years. In the lifetime of a solid hardwood floor, you may have to replace the same carpet floor ten times.
The minimal maintenance and extremely long life span of a hardwood floor make it a far more economical choice than carpet over a lifetime.
INCREASED PROPERTY VALUE
If you ever put your home on the market, you will thank yourself for deciding to invest in hardwood.
Before they notice the windows or get to the master bedroom, the people looking at your house will first take note of what is under their feet, and that first impression is often make or break. Homebuyers in today's market have come to expect hardwood flooring, as carpets are almost always seen as something that will need replaced. This feeling of a “fixer-upper" is enough to make your property easy to pass on in a crowded market.
Hardwood flooring is also a universal sign of quality and matches just about anything. This gives the prospective buyer a sense of reassurance not only in the quality of the property but also in that the pre-existing floors will match their taste in décor.
Just how much value hardwood adds to a home will vary from place to place and property to property, but it will without question always increase value and make a home easier to sell.
HEALTH
Carpet floors are notorious for trapping allergens. Debris, pet dander, pollen—you name it, and a carpet floor will probably hold onto it no matter how many times you run the vacuum over it.
This can be a major issue for a person with any kind of respiratory ailment, and if the carpets trap enough allergens, it may be enough to affect your breathing even if you do not have a pre-existing condition.
With a hardwood floor however, the dirt has nowhere to hide. No matter how many trees decide to pollinate outside your open windows, and no matter how many times pets decide to do everything that pets do, you are always just a dust mop or damp cloth away from having a floor that is as clean and allergen-free as the day it was installed.
Is It Time to Invest?
Are you ready to stop pouring money into carpeting and see some return on investment from your floors?
Still not sure if hardwood is for you?
Let us know if there is anything we can do to help you with your decision. We would be more than happy to send some literature your way, or just answer a few questions on the phone. 866-208-WOOD (9663)