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Hardwood Flooring

Hardwood flooring can be used in just about any application. You can find hardwood flooring in athletics, hospitality, condominiums, schools… The list goes on. Whether you need to cover an entire restaurant or update your hallways, Anderson Ladd, now H2I Group has you covered. We can do it all from site finished solid strip, to engineered, to luxury vinyl plank we’ve got your floor covered. 

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Knowledgeable Hardwood Flooring Experts

Anderson Ladd has been installing high end athletic, residential, and commercial wood floors for the past 75 years. All of our custom floors are finished with oil-modified polyurethane or water-base urethane. Urethane finishes are durable, easy to care for, and preserve the beauty of your floor with minimal care. 

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Maple: The Most Common Variety

When you envision a finished hardwood floor, that’s light-toned and durable, maple hardwood flooring may be for you. Maple flooring is one of the most popular hardwood options because of its light color, uniform texture, and attractive variations. There are different grades of maple and each one has it’s advantages and typical usage. There’s a reason maple is the most common type of hardwood used in athletic facilities, it’s extremely durable, adaptable, and  easy to maintain. 

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Other Types of Hardwood Flooring

Red Oak

Janka Hardness rating: 1,290

Red Oak

Red Oak is a species which brings the classic hardwood look, perfect for older homes. Variable grain patterns with cathedral style peaks and linear grain are presented by the opposing open and closed graining of the hardwood. Red Oak’s heartwood is known well for it’s golden and reddish tones. The sapwood is normally composed of lighter colored boards or boards of a different hue.

American Cherry

Janka Hardness rating: 950

American Cherry

At maturity, this heartwood has a distinctive reddish brown color. This flooring has a light orange-brown coloration when it is installed. After a certain period of time, several months to several years, it will attain color maturity and a more red-brown tone. The sapwood will remain of a light colored cream or white over time. This is a softer hardwood, used for the commercial production of hardwood flooring.

Black Walnut

Janka Hardness rating: 1,010

Black Walnut

Black Walnut is widely known for the coloration of its heartwood which can vary from a rich chocolate color to a light brown. Black Walnut’s heartwood contrasts its sapwood varying from a cream to white or ivory coloration. Walnut is a much softer wood, not typically used for hardwood flooring.

Hickory

Janka Hardness rating: 1,820

Hickory

Hickory sapwood and heartwood combined creates the widest variety of colors of any of the species we carry. Hickory sapwood is a mostly off-white hue which can have pink or yellow undertones. With a dark or medium brown for the hickory heartwood. Each grain pattern can vary largely from one board to the next creating interesting looking floor patterns. Much more dense than Red Oak and Maple, hickory makes for a very durable floor for high traffic areas.
White Oak

Janka Hardness rating: 1,360

Brazilian Cherry

Janka Hardness rating: 2,820

Walnut

Janka Hardness rating: 1,010

Yellow Birch

Janka Hardness rating: 1,260

Maintaining Your Hardwood Floors

  • Maintain proper humidity.  Ideal relative humidity is 35-55%.Vacuum or sweep floors as necessary.  Sand and grit will wear away the finish.
  • Use felt protectors on furniture legs.
  • Wipe away spills immediately.
  • Use walk-off mats outside entrance doors to catch dirt and use rugs in high traffic areas to lessen wear on the floor finish.
  • Check traffic areas for wear regularly and have your flooring recoated before the finish has worn through.
  • When cleaning your floor, dampen not wet the mop.
  • Keep high heels in good repair to reduce indentations.
  • Do not use wax, oil soaps, dusting sprays, or other household cleaners on polyurethane finished wood flooring. Use only recommended cleaning products.

The benefit of providing flooring solutions in the residential, commercial, as well as educational industry gives us the knowledge and experience required to specialize in each individual market. What does that mean for you? It means our specialists are able to devote all of the time and energy necessary to analyze the areas of improvement and in turn, provide you with not just a tailored solution, but also peace of mind knowing that the top, and most intelligent brains are hard at work finding a solution that fits your needs.  Whether it’s for your home, company, or athletic team, our mission remains the same, to improve the lives of the people we serve.

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