Whether it’s a restaurant, condo, or house Anderson Ladd has your hardwood flooring covered. We specialize in furnishing and installing site finished and prefinished wood as well as engineered flooring. We also can perform a complete sand and refinish of the existing wood flooring or just apply a maintenance coat. Anderson Ladd is your first choice in installation of hardwood flooring in the Midwest. We have been installing high end residential and commercial wood floors for the past 75 years. We can do it all from site finished solid strip, to engineered, to luxury vinyl plank we’ve got your floor covered. Come in and visit our brand new showroom with dozens of different species installed
Anderson Ladd is your leading supplier of quality hardwood flooring solutions!
Painless Maintenance: 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.
Multi-Market Provider: 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.
Types of Hardwood
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.
Janka Hardness rating: 950
The quality of American Cherry flooring is represented by the relationship between its aestheticism and durability. Just as a diamond is as beautiful as it is strong, the same can be observed in our American Cherry hardwood floors. Hardwood floors are dent-resistant, making them one of the strongest and most lasting flooring options available. American Cherry colorful tones increase a room’s vibrancy and brightness while adding life to any modern decor. American Cherry is the perfect choice for those searching for beauty that lasts.
Red Oak
Janka Hardness rating: 1,290
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.
Black Walnut
Janka Hardness rating: 1,010
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 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.
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.