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How Can I Decorate to Suit My Dark Wood Floors?

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If you recently refinished your hardwood floors using a dark color, you may feel unsure about how to decorate your house for the most beautiful effect. Dark wood floors are actually quite sophisticated, providing a rich appeal to any space. But if you use too many dark colors in your furnishings and other décor, you risk making your rooms appear heavy.

Below, we explore some tips for decorating your home or commercial space to suit your new dark wood floors.

What Décor Works Well with Dark Wood Floors?

Whether you chose natural hardwoods for your space or had luxury vinyl plank floors installed, you have many years ahead to enjoy their durability, beauty, and low maintenance appeal. But with dark wood floors, it is important to not darken your space too much with poorly chosen upholstery or wallcoverings. Instead, you should decorate to brighten the space and make the flooring a warm foundation.

Consider decorating by following these tips:

  • White walls with light wood furnishings
  • Furniture legs stained to match the flooring
  • A mix of wood colors with white
  • Rich wall colors with a patterned kilim rug
  • Dark floor coverings with light walls
  • White marble, white surfaces, bronze and wood
  • Bright colors with white
  • Urban layered textures and muddy hues

White Walls with Light Wood Furnishings

Select wood furnishings several shades lighter than your dark wood floors, but similar in warmth. Add sumptuous white rugs, such as a fluffy faux fur selection. Paint walls a sharp white to contrast against the hardwoods or luxury vinyl plank floors. The result is a chic look of harmony very in-step with the times.

Furniture Legs Stained to Match Flooring

For an elegant and well pulled-together look, ensure your sofa and chair legs match the color of your dark wood floors. This removes the distraction of oddly colored legs seeming to peer out from beneath upholstered furnishings. To suit this cohesive approach at the foundation of the room, use a significantly lighter color on your walls. This directs the “weight” of the room downward and creates a breezier feeling for the rest of the space.

A Mix of Wood Colors with White

Instead of matching your furnishings with your dark wood floors or luxury vinyl plank floors, consider creating a more curated look. This look can take on a similar feel as the tree variety you find in a forest. Thinking along this woodsy theme, consider how many different trees of multiple colors and tones exist alongside each other in their natural habitat. You can recreate this palette through your own wood furnishings using light wood seating, for example. Add white walls and lots of green foliage as part of your forested theme.

Rich Wall Colors with a Patterned Low-Pile Rug

If bright colors are your favorite style, go with a richly pigmented hue on your walls. Select a patterned flat-weave rug, such as a stylish kilim, to marry the dark wood floors to your brighter walls. Through this type of combination, you can create an upbeat yet relaxing space.

Dark Floor Coverings with Light Walls

Light walls, white ceiling and dark wood floors can form a foundation for more creative use of color in patterned rugs. If this is your style choice, consider narrowing your wall color choices from almost-white pastels to stark white.

White Marble, White Surfaces, Bronze and Wood

Many homeowners today are choosing dark wood floors or luxury vinyl plank floors for their kitchen. If you make this choice, consider infusing some light by painting walls white and installing white cabinets with white marble or stone counter surfaces. Integrate bronze drawer pulls and hardware. Throughout the space, add subtle wood accents only a couple of tones lighter than your flooring.

Bright Colors with White

If you want a fresh, crisp look, use a bright hue on your accent walls. A modern choice is celery green, but any color can work. To balance the strength of the floor and wall tones, refrain from using other colors in the space. Instead, break up the color with lots of white for rugs, furnishings, accent pieces and surfaces.

Urban Layered Textures and Muddy Hues

The urban look is very chic and modern, particularly for city dwellings. For your urban space, integrate multiple textures as layers. Good options include leather, velvet, metal and hide for pillows, accessories, throws and decorative accents. Work with a color palette of sage, taupe or gray for these pieces and your walls. Choose dark wood and steel furnishings to complete the city-chic theme.

Install or Refinish Your Own Dark Wood Floors

Are you ready for a change in your Raleigh, North Carolina area living space or commercial property? Perhaps installing hardwood flooring or luxury vinyl plank floors will add the modern sophistication you seek.

Tri Point Flooring has provided customers with hardwood flooring installation and refinishing services for years. We would love to add you to our customer family! Our service areas include Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Cary and Apex. Call us today for a free in-home estimate at (919) 771-7542.

Hardwood Floors Look Dull
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Why Do My Hardwood Floors Look Dull?

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If you live in or around Wake County, North Carolina, you probably have an appreciation for wood floors. Many people who buy homes here specifically list “hardwoods” as one of their buying preferences. But liking how these floors look when new and maintaining them for years to come are two totally different things. Some homeowners use the wrong cleaning agents on their floors and others harm the wood in other ways. Why do hardwood floors look dull and how can you prevent this problem?

Know the Finish of Your Hardwood Floors

You need to understand what type of finish your floors have to keep them looking their best. Whether you have engineered hardwoods or solid wood flooring, is the finish a polyurethane or polyacrylic urethane? If neither of these, is it paste wax?

Most people do not think to ask this question as they admire a brand new shine. But as years pass, the shine grows dull. Then you find yourself wondering why your hardwood floors look dull and how to bring back the shine.

If you do not know the type of finish on your hardwoods, you can find out. Simply find an area typically exposed to normal foot traffic. Drop a small amount of water on the wood. Watch and see what happens, to get your answer.

Does the flooring quickly absorb the drop? Or, does the water cause spotting? In either of these cases, you have unsealed hardwoods. For these floors, you should never clean with water.

Does the bead of water sit on the surface? If the floor does not absorb the drop, you have sealed hardwoods.

To test for a paste wax finish, find a spot in a hidden corner. Delicately rub steel wool over the wood. Is there a waxy gray film on the wool after doing so? If you notice this residue, your floors have been waxed.

7 Reasons Why Hardwood Floors Look Dull

Now you know whether you have unsealed, sealed or paste wax finished floors. Next, you can figure out what makes your hardwood floors look dull.

Hardwood Floors look dull because you just move dirt around.

If you do not sweep, vacuum or dust mop your floors before using a wet mop, you are just pushing dirt around. By adding water or other liquid to the existing dirt, you make a muddy solution that builds up on the floor surface. It is important to remove dirt and debris from the floor before mopping or using a cleaning solution.

Your acrylic-based cleaner is clouding the finish.

Although acrylic-based floor wax liquids claim to make your floors shine, they can actually cause clouding. These “no wax” cleaning solutions turn polyurethane and paste wax finishes milky over time. You can try using mineral spirits to clear one area at a time. But that takes elbow grease and rarely helps as much as having your floors stripped and refinished.

Too much cleaning product.

Even using the right cleaner can make hardwood floors look dull over time. This is the case when you use too much of the solution. In essence, you should only use the recommended amount as directed by the product label.

You do not finish the job.

Anytime you wax or damp mop your hardwoods, you need to follow this up with buffing. Buffing prevents streaking on the floors. To enhance shine, buff the finish using a dry microfiber cloth or mop.

Too many scratches.

Pet nails and stiletto heels are both notorious for ruining the finish of hardwood floors. Another cause of scratches is general residue on the bottom of shoes worn from outside into your home. Prevention is the best means of keeping your hardwoods looking their best. Keep pet nails trimmed, avoid wearing high heels indoors and place a doormat inside and outside of each entrance. Otherwise, highly scratched hardwood floors need stripping and refinishing for a better shine.

Floors have wax buildup.

Floors without a polyurethane finish are typically finished with carnauba paste wax. This creates a shine but can look dull over time and as the wax builds up. Even when you properly apply wax only annually, soon your hardwood floors look dull. You can strip this paste wax with mineral spirits or through the help of your floor refinishing experts.

You need to call the professionals for refinishing.

No matter how gingerly you use your hardwood floors and even when you clean them with great care, all hardwoods eventually need stripping and refinishing. Solid hardwoods can go through this process several times. Engineered hardwood floors can also endure through two to three refinishing and resealing processes.

Expert Care When Your Hardwood Floors Look Dull

If your hardwood floors look dull, call your hardwood flooring experts at Tri Point Flooring in Cary, North Carolina. We install and refinish hardwood floors and engineered hardwoods throughout Wake County and the rest of the Triangle Area. We can help your floors shine and look their best. Simply call Tri Point Flooring at (919)771-7542 for a free quote.

Engineered Wood Flooring
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What is Engineered Wood Flooring?

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Have you decided to upgrade your flooring and improve the overall look and feeling of your home? Hardwood flooring provides a beautiful and timeless foundation for all of your decor. But how do you know whether to choose engineered wood flooring? What are the benefits of doing so and how can you use this flooring in your home?

Tri Point Flooring in Cary, North Carolina provides hardwood floor installation and refinishing for customers throughout the Triangle Area of North Carolina. Visit us today to learn more about your flooring options and how to achieve the overall look you want. Engineered hardwood flooring is one option we offer and explore below.

Engineered Wood Flooring vs. Solid Hardwoods

You have many options to choose from when installing hardwood flooring in your home. This makes your choice of which type, style and finish to use a bit harder. One common question people have is, “What is the difference between engineered wood flooring and solid hardwoods?”

In a nutshell, engineered hardwood flooring is crafted of hardwood and plywood layers. As an alternative, solid hardwoods are natural pieces of solid wood without any man-made layers.

Why Should I Go with Engineered Hardwood?

With any hardwood flooring, you provide timeless appeal and functioning for your floors. But why should you make the choice for engineered flooring, when solid hardwoods are widely available on the market?

Benefits of engineered wood flooring include:

  • Durable, high performance qualities
  • Construction of multiple layers of wood with each layer positioned differently to prevent warping and bowing
  • Installation for most home grade levels, even below ground when you add a protective moisture barrier
  • Provides the same look of hardwoods, thanks to the top layer of hardwood veneer
  • Easy care and maintenance for years of beauty

Styles of Engineered Hardwoods

You have many options when choosing engineered wood flooring for your home.

These options include:

  • A range of the most popular wood species, including hickory, maple, oak and more
  • Matte, semigloss and high gloss finishes
  • A variety of surface effects for visual interest, including hand scraped, time worn, wire brushed or distressed appearance

Just about anyone can find an engineered wood flooring to suit their home decor, from classic to contemporary styles. This flooring provides a beautiful and visually appealing statement wherever you choose to install it. It also offers the durability you need to stand up to foot traffic, furnishings, family life, pets and other everyday wear and tear.

Engineered wood flooring is usually between 3/8 to 3/4 inches thick. This very closely compares to the 1/2 to 3/4 inch thickness of solid hardwoods.

Life Expectancy of Engineered Wood Flooring

Engineered wood flooring can vary in its life expectancy. Factors determining how long your flooring will last include its top veneer layer thickness, quality and maintenance methods. If you take good care of your quality flooring, it can last a lifetime.

This type of floor works well in just about any room. Even bathrooms and basements benefit from its beauty and durability, as long as you install a protective moisture barrier and keep humidity levels down to a normal range. For most homeowners, the biggest benefit of engineered wood flooring is its lower cost than natural hardwoods.

Call Tri Point Flooring in Cary, NC to learn more about your wood flooring options. We provide a full range of services to help you make the best decision for your home and start enjoying your beautiful new or restored hardwoods quickly. Reach out to us at (919)771-7542 for a free estimate today.

Hardwood Floors Looking New
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7 Tips to Keep Your Hardwood Floors Looking New

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Today, many people are tearing out carpeting and replacing it with hardwoods. Refinished or engineered hardwood floors provide a much fresher and updated look for your home. They are easier to maintain. It is also easier to keep your hardwood floors looking new as compared to carpeting.

Once you have your new flooring installed, how do you properly maintain it? Below, find seven tips to keep your hardwood floors looking new.

Preventative Maintenance Keep Wood Floors Looking New

It is important to develop a habit of regularly cleaning your floors, particularly sweeping or vacuuming away dirt and debris. This helps you avoid having to spend more time and money on repairing your floors in the long run. Through daily preventive maintenance, such as sweeping every evening before bed, you can keep your hardwood floors looking new.

Clean Up Spills Immediately on Hardwood Floors

Spills happen. That is a fact of life. Although having hard floors means less likelihood of a spill becoming a stain, you still need to clean the mess up quickly. Stains can set into wood floors if they remain on the surface too long. When that happens, you must have your hardwood floor refinished to refresh its appearance.

Sweep Daily

As said before, sweeping your floors daily is an important rule to keep your hardwood floors looking new. But this rule deserves a second and more specific explanation. Residual dirt left on the flooring can scratch the wood. People easily and unknowingly step on tiny granules of sand or other debris left on the floor surface. As they move or apply weight, each granule works like sandpaper.

Consider using a rubber broom. These special brooms do not scratch the surface of your floors and work very well for picking up dirt and debris like pet hair and dander.

Use Hardwood Cleaner Once Weekly

If you have a standard amount of foot traffic going through your home, you need to use hardwood floor cleaner once weekly. This simple step can keep your hardwood floors looking new much longer. They also provide a fresh scent and slight sheen that everyone appreciates. Find these cleaners in your hardware store or from your professional flooring company, such as Cary, North Carolina’s Tri Point Flooring. Spray the cleaner and buff the flooring gently using a soft cloth or hardwood broom.

Avoid Soap and Water on Hardwood Floors

Many people do not realize that soap and water damages hardwood floors. Wood suffers water damage, so you need to keep water out of contact with these surfaces. The liquid seeps into cracks in each board, as well as the crevices between planks. This causes discoloration, swelling and deformation of boards.

Instead of using a traditional mop and bucket to clean your flooring, invest only several dollars in better materials. You need a microfiber mop or one specially designed for hardwoods to provide polished, streak-free appeal without scratching. Keep hardwood cleaner on hand and react quickly when water spills.

Place Felt on the Legs of Your Furniture

Furniture can quickly and seriously damage your new floors. To keep your hardwood floors looking new, apply felt to the bottom of each furniture leg or base. Pay particular attention to frequently used chairs, sofas and other furnishings that move. You can buy this felt at your hardware store or find pre-cut pieces designed for chair legs, table legs and sofa bases. Having these felt pads applied also makes sliding the furniture easier for cleaning, without scratching.

Keep Your Hardwood Floors Looking New with Professional Help

When Tri Point Flooring installs new engineered hardwood floors or refinishes existing hardwoods, we advise our customers about proper cleaning and care. If you have questions about how to keep your hardwood floors looking new, we are pleased to help. We have the experience, equipment and advanced knowledge to perform routine maintenance for you, such as in removing scratches, staining, buffing and recoating. Call Tri Point Flooring in Cary, NC today at (919) 771-7542.

Organic Reactive Pre-Finished Flooring
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What is Organic Reactive Pre-Finished Flooring?

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Organic reactive pre-finished flooring refers to engineered hardwood flooring crafted using special techniques and in a wide range of styles. These remarkably attractive wooden floors provide natural-looking beauty that endure daily wear and tear with timeless style. This type of flooring even helps your family live a healthier lifestyle.

Organic reactive pre-finished methods are not new to the flooring world. In fact, the processes used to make this broad selection of flooring options is over a century old. To accomplish a custom flooring look, the hardwoods go through a smoking process that exposes them to organic substances.

The organic reactive pre-finished process guarantees a custom look to your flooring that looks like hand-hewn and finished hardwoods. This method creates contrast in the woods, bringing out natural darkness and highlights in the grain patterns and individual planks. This is different from painted woods or those stained using a less intensive process. Those quicker methods create a flatter and more uniform appearance that does not speak of the quality and style of organic reactive woods.

While creating a more stylish and authentic appearance for your floors, the organic reactive pre-finished process provides another key benefit. Instead of just staining or coloring the surface of the wood, these old-world methods enable the color to permeate into the veneer. This means that the surfaces resist showing scuffs and scratches.

The Tannins’ Role in Organic Reactive Pre-finished Flooring

Tannins do not just relate to the wines you drink. These chemical substances exist in many types of plants, including woods used to make hardwood flooring. Tannins are part of the plant’s defense mechanisms, protecting it from diseases and even animal consumption. Craftsmen have long harnessed the power of tannins in tanning leather and clarifying wine. This organic chemical is also in many astringents, such as witch hazel.

Tannins affect how the wood looks. This interesting chemical brings on leaf color changes every autumn. It also changes the color of wood as part of a natural aging process. Also, designers have long loved the look of wood that has aged naturally, providing the rustic appearance mastered by Nature and long mimicked through man-made methods.

For organic reactive pre-finished hardwood flooring, the century-old process involves speeding up natural aging methods. Engineering of these beautiful floors starts with the introduction of multiple organic agents like ammonia and iron acetate. Today’s craftsmanship only involves low-VOC or non-VOC agents.

Introducing these organic agents to the atmosphere around the woods or by applying them directly onto the surfaces initiates oxidization. Through the oxidative reaction, the wood’s tannins rise to the surface. There, they naturally weather the wood. As a result of the tannin reaction, each piece of wood deepens in contrast and color richness. Plank grain patterns take on greater darkening and highlighting.

As man has learned how to harness the power of tannins over the past 100 years, organic reactive pre-finished woods have only become more beautiful. Today’s reactive flooring looks more stunning and sophisticated than ever before. Also, this is why so many elite designers and architects prefer organic reactive prefinished flooring options.

Safer Breathing Indoors, Thanks to Low-VOC Curing

Using organic reactive pre-finished woods for your floors means healthier breathing for your whole family. For years, scientists have recognized that volatile organic compounds (VOCs) cause adverse health effects. VOCs like formaldehyde have long been part of the flooring industry, making VOC presence indoors as much as 10 times higher than outdoors. But organic processes of organic reactive flooring only use low-VOC or non-VOC chemicals.

Select from a Broad Range of Organic Reactive Pre-Finished Flooring Options

TriPoint Flooring is your resource for beautiful hardwood flooring in Cary, Apex, and Raleigh, North Carolina. Also, our selection includes organic reactive pre-finished woods that add a luxurious look to your home at an affordable price. Lastly, call Tri Point Flooring at (919)771-7542 today for a refinishing or installation consultation.

Buffing vs. Sanding Hardwood Floors
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Buffing vs. Sanding Hardwood Floors

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Well-maintained hardwood floors make your home appear warm and inviting. Hardwoods can look very modern, traditionally attractive or even historic, depending on their finish and condition. But when the finish becomes dull, buffing or sanding hardwood floors can make them look fresh again. You can choose to do the work yourself or call upon the experts for the most convenient, professional and hassle-free results.

When you want to improve the appearance of your hardwoods, you probably need to buff or sand them. By doing so, you can return them to their original glory. But whether you should be buffing or sanding hardwood floors in your home is the big question.

Buffing and sanding hardwood floors are not the same thing. Both of these methods reduce the appearance of wear and tear on your wood floors. But they do so with different results.

Sanding Hardwood Floors

Sanding hardwood floors involves using coarse sanding equipment. This process removes the finish and stain. At the same time, it smooths the wood by grinding it down. By sanding, you take off the sealer and surface shine along with color applied as part of past finishing.

The process starts by stripping the protective layers applied to the wood. After this, you continue sanding hardwood floors to remove flaws like nicks and scratches. This usually requires a drum floor sander rented from a home improvement store or the help of a professional floor refinisher.

There is no quick or single process for sanding hardwood floors. Most floors require multiple passes of the sander. With each of these passes, you must use progressively finer sandpaper. By doing so, you make the floors as smooth as possible.

After sanding hardwood floors, you stain it. You can choose to use the same stain as before or a new color to update or change the look. Once the stain dries, you then apply a finish. Common finishes include lacquer, polyurethane, alternative oils or sealer. Having an expert do this work for you certainly provides the best results.

Buffing Wood Floors

While sanding hardwood floors makes over the whole floor at once, buffing addresses small areas where needed. You can buff your hardwoods to remove small nicks or scratches. You can also buff it to improve shine and make the finish look fresh again. This saves you from having to go through the labor-intensive and multi-step process of sanding and refinishing.

To buff your floors, choose whether you wish to use a hand-buffing process or stand-behind machinery. Of course, you do not have to do this work yourself. You can have experts come to your home and provide the results you want without the DIY inconvenience.

Before buffing, you must ensure you thoroughly clean your wooden floors. If you skip this step, you risk getting dirt, pet hair, lint or dust permanently stuck in the polish. After cleaning the floors, hand buff the scratch by rubbing brass wool over it. Continue doing this until you no longer see the scratch, nick or other damage.

After hand buffing flaws in the floor, apply the originally-used polish to the area. Use a terrycloth towel for this step and rub the polish onto the affected flooring. To match the shine of surrounding areas, rub the hardwood floor with a buffing pad.

If you want to buff your whole floor for a fresh shine and flawless appearance, you need a buffing machine. First remove wax polish, then thoroughly clean the floor. Once the floor dries, again use the buffing machine to add a new coat of polish. As with sanding hardwood floors, getting professional help always provides the best results without the hassles of doing it yourself.

Buffing or Sanding Hardwood Floors without the Hassle

Tri Point Flooring in Cary, Apex and Raleigh, North Carolina provides the area’s best hardwood floor refinishing and installation. When your hardwoods look dull, damaged or dreary, you only have to call Tri Point Flooring for expert help. Schedule an in-person consultation or obtain a competitive quote for residential or commercial service throughout the Triangle Area by calling (919)771-7542.

Wood Flooring Color
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How to Choose the Right Wood Flooring Color

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Installing hardwood floors is an investment in the value of your home. A big part of getting your money’s worth and improving your real estate value is choosing the best wood flooring color. So, how do you choose the right shade and what do you need to consider?

Two Key Factors To Keep In Mind When Deciding Which Wood Flooring Color Is Right For Your Home

Two key factors play a major role in determining the finished \]wood flooring color. Those are the wood grain and the chosen finish or stain. The wood grain is a characteristic of your chosen type of wood.

To select a finish or stain, begin by considering the colors that seem most attractive to you at first. You want to choose a color that works well with your design scheme and other treatments in your decor, such as cabinetry. After you choose a color, look into finishes and how those affect the final look.

Consider Undertones

Most interior designers advise against red and orange wood finishes. These appear dated in most settings. But you can still create a sense of warmth through the wood flooring color by using warm gray. Today, gray is on trend and not as heavy as reds or orange tones of yesteryear. Gray also works well with many decor themes.

Your own style is actually more important than current trends, however. You want wood flooring color that helps you feel joyful when you walk in your front door. After all, the floor is the biggest element in your room. What colors, furnishings, accessories and floor treatments you use all work together to determine how your room looks and feels.

Consider Easy Care and Longevity

If you want to color your wood flooring according to trends, try to learn more about emerging trends, not current ones. Current trends will date your home and provide people who see it with an idea of what year you refinished or installed your floors. Talk to hardwood flooring experts to get on the leading edge of the next trends. This buys more time before your floors look dated.

Consider colors or styles that provide easy care. You can age your home through application of a trend, but you can also age it by using materials that quickly wear out. Choose wood stains, finishes and colors that will hold up. Talk to the experts about how much ongoing care the floors will require.

For example, an active family of multiple young children likely does not want to choose a light wood stain on walnut floors. This wood wears out quickly and lighter stains show more wear. The combination means you will be spending extra time on an ongoing basis caring for your floors and trying to prevent damage. A better choice of wood for a multi-child household is European Oak, as it can handle high traffic.

Test Your Stain Before Applying It at Large

For existing floors, you should apply test swatches of stains and finishes before completing the rest of the floor. How colors look in your home differs from how they look in a well-lit store environment. You need to see how the color works with other elements of your room, such as wall colors, furnishings and cabinetry.

Do not ever accept the color of a particular stain on a store swatch as being how it will look on your floors at home. Remember that your type of wood flooring causes the color to appear unique, when compared to another type of wood with the same stain applied. For example, pine stained with a color looks very different from redwood stained by the same color.

Should I paint my floors?

Painted floors are certainly on-trend now. If your wood flooring color shows decades of wear and tear, painting them can help conceal this damage. As well as provide a fresh look. Generally, painting your floor works well in beach or rustic decor. But it can also provide very elegant appeal in an upscale home.

The key to painting your wooden flooring is using floor or deck paint, not wall or exterior house paint. This type of paint withstands daily wear and tear that floors receive. If you choose to paint, consider that white paint seems between boards and in tiny cracks. So you cannot reverse this color once completed. It has to be a permanent decision.

Who are the experts for helping me decide which hardwood flooring color to select?

When refinishing your wood floors or seeking installation of new flooring, turn to the experts of Wake County in Cary, North Carolina. The experts of Tri Point Flooring know the ins and outs of all types of hardwoods, colors, stains and finishes. We can help you make the best decisions for your flooring and your lifestyle. Call us at 919-771-7542 for estimates and the advice you need for the hardwood flooring color of your dreams.

Increase Energy Efficiency with Wood Flooring
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Increase Energy Efficiency with Wood Flooring

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As energy prices keep rising throughout the Cary, NC area, we all need to find ways to improve our home’s energy efficiency. Having wood floors certainly helps your home stay clean and allergen-free. But did you know that you can also increase your home’s energy efficiency with wood flooring?

Below are some ways to ensure you get the most out of your home’s energy use with hardwood floors. Minding these points, you can keep your bills low and your energy footprint as small as possible.

Draft-Proof Your Wood Floors to Increase Your Home’s Energy Efficiency

Through draft-proofing alone, you can save a bundle in energy costs. In and around your home, you need to draft proof your doors, windows and chimneys. But to increase your home’s energy efficiency with wood flooring, also check your skirting boards.

Start in one room of your house and follow the skirting boards around the perimeter, before moving onto another room. In these boards, look for gaps and fill those. Replace old skirting with new where needed. By doing so, you reduce heat loss and keep your feet warmer during a damp North Carolina winter.

Replacing all of the skirting boards in one average-sized home can cost several hundred dollars. But this simple fix saves you up to $40 in annual energy costs.

Fill Gaps in Your Wood Floors

If you have original hardwood floors, as many Triangle Area homes do, you probably have some gaps in them, too. Good wood flooring starts at the subfloor, where you need adequate insulation. Then on top of that subfloor, you need solid hardwoods free of gaps between planks or other holes. But many homes of yesteryear have no subflooring. Even worse, their hardwoods feature many gaps and holes.

If you have old hardwoods, call in hardwood refinishing experts to inspect these surfaces and assess their quality. Your best bet for old floors is either refinishing or placement of new hardwood flooring using modern products and techniques. If your newer flooring expanded or contracted and formed gaps or buckles, have the installers return to fix these issues. One way or the other, this attention to filling gaps in your hardwoods certainly helps in home energy efficiency.

After fixing these gaps and holes, you can increase your home’s energy efficiency with wood flooring by another $40 to $60 in savings per year. You also greatly reduce the drafts that send a chill that starts at your toes and runs up your spine.

Increase Your Home’s Energy Efficiency with Wood Flooring…….Insulate, Insulate, Insulate!

By insulating beneath these surfaces, you significantly increase your home’s energy efficiency with wood flooring. For a suspended wooden floor, this means lifting the floor and placing netting between joists to hold mineral wool insulation. But when laying a new floor, you simply ensure the installer places a layer of insulation over the subfloor.

There is an exception to insulation, when wanting to increase your home’s energy efficiency with wood flooring. That is, when installing flooring at a second level above a heated room. In multi-story dwellings, take advantage of rising heat and let that warm air penetrate through the wood. When flooring a level above unheated spaces like garages, you need insulation to keep the cold from penetrating your higher levels.

Insulating can increase your home’s energy efficiency with wood flooring by between $40 and $105 per year.

An Under-Floor Heating System Keeps You Cozy

A great way to keep your home cozy in the coldest of North Carolina winters is through installation of an under-floor heating system. This system helps reduce your heating bills by stopping the chill that starts at your toes.

Under-floor heating requires installation of the right type of wood flooring above it. So, you should turn to the experts for this installation. Your best option is engineered wood flooring that can handle extreme moisture and temperature changes. Using natural hardwoods over this heat leads to buckling, warping and cupping.

You cannot place a dollar value on the comfort you gain with under-floor heating. But you can expect to save another $50 to $90 per year through lower heating bills.

Your Cary, NC Experts in Hardwood Flooring

When you want to increase your home’s energy efficiency with wood flooring, turn to the experts of the Triangle Area, at Tri Point Flooring in Cary, NC. We provide an onsite inspection of your existing floors and a consultation for the best means of increasing your home’s value while nudging your energy costs down.

Get your questions answered and obtain a free quote today by calling Tri Point Flooring at (919)771-7542

Why Hire a Professional Flooring Installer?
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Why Hire a Professional Flooring Installer?

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A common question people tend to have is “why hire a professional flooring installer”? Isn’t it easier to put in the new hardwood flooring myself?” While this is a fair question, especially if you are someone who has the DIY (Do It Yourself) experience, we do not recommend DIY installing wooden floors.

Installing Hardwood Floors On Your Own Can Be Tricky and Cost You More Money

Installing wood floors is a lot harder than people often think it is. If it wasn’t difficult, we wouldn’t still be in business! Installing your own floor requires mastery of pneumatic staple guns, circular saws, tape measures and chalk lines, etc.  While these tasks may not seem overly difficult, a small slip up can put the entire project in jeopardy. Not in the fun TV show kind of way!

Consider the cost of your time, as well as buying the materials and tools to do the hardwood floor installation yourself.

You Will Likely Realize that DIY is Just Not Worth it for this Project

It is true that with a large amount of research, planning, and money spent on materials, you can do this project yourself. However, by the time you factor in the extra costs associated with doing it yourself, as well as the cost of your time and the risk/reward of a mishap ruining the project. It is unlikely to be worth the DIY for the vast majority of people.

Let The Pros at Tri Point Flooring Do the Heavy Lifting

This doesn’t have to be a negative, however. When you work with Tri Point Flooring, you are already saving money. We guarantee you our prices will never be beaten, and if they are, we will price match it. That way, you can relax and let us handle the hard work and stress, while all you have to do is admire your beautiful new floor when we are done! Call us today if you have any questions, or to book an absolutely free consultation for us to look at your job!

Why hire a professional flooring installer?  To keep your floors looking great! Contact Tri Point Flooring Today! We will schedule a consultation and give you a free estimate!

Replace Your Hardwood
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Is It Time To Replace Your Hardwood Floor?

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Have you ever looked at your floor and wondered if it is time to replace your hardwood? Sure, it has been a while, but what signs should you look for to give you clarity on whether or not you need a new hardwood floor?

Here the signs we recommend you keep an eye out for in your home:

Lots of scratches

If your floor is suffering from nicks and dings from years of wear, then it could be time to refinish or replace the floor. Hardwood tends to be easier to scratch, so a couple of small scratches are likely to happen, but anything more than that should be a major indicator that it is time to consider a new or refinished floor.

Some boards are turning grey

If any of your hardwood floor boards have started to turn grey, (unless the floor was originally grey!) you may want to consider replacing your existing wood floor with a new one. The boards turning grey or discoloring in that fashion means that they have been worn down enough to start to lose their color, and that hardwood is at the end of its lifespan.

Some boards have already turned black

Like the last item on this list, a board turning black means it is absolutely, 100 percent, without a doubt time to replace your hardwood floor. The board turning black is like a worse version of it turning grey, meaning it was time to replace the floor some time ago, but it was not done. Time to rectify that and replace the hardwood floor!

Water (or moisture) damage

If you have any kind of water damage to your hardwood floor, it may be time to refinish or outright place it. Water damage is horrible for the hardwood, causing it to peel and sometimes even crack, but it is much worse for the people in the house. Also, the water damage can allow mold to grow and release spores into the air, making anyone living in the house sick. If this is you, be sure to replace the boards right away!

If you do see any of these signs, or just decide you need a new, fresh look, call Tri Point Flooring today! We are the industry leader in low prices, and we offer a 1 year warranty and satisfaction guarantee on our work! Call us today for a free consultation.

Call Us Today at (919) 771-7542 to Schedule Your FREE In-Home Estimate.

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