Hardwood floors are easy to clean, more sanitary than carpet, offer an almost infinite array of styles, and outlast all other flooring types.

You should consider new hardwood floors any time you start thinking about decorating your existing or new house.

The species, color, and floor design will influence many of your decorating choices including trim, cabinetry, and wall coverings.

No. Engineered floors are actually more dimensionally stable in that they move less than solid wood floors, can be used in a wider variety of applications, and are less subject to moisture variations.

No. The sub floor does not have to be level but must be flat for a proper installation. In some case, even an uneven sub floor can be corrected.

You name it! Feil, Inc’s wide variety of products and today’s installation methods open up your entire home to the beautiful possibilities of hardwood flooring. Our engineered wood products are right for any room—below-grade, on-grade, and above-grade. These floors are made of all-wood strips that are precision-engineered together to give them added dimensional stability for use throughout the home. Our solid wood floors are unstained and untainted to let nature’s true color shine through. Because they’re solid wood, these floors are susceptible to the effects of moisture and changes in temperature, making them good choices for rooms on-grade and above-grade.

It’s all relative. With proper care and maintenance, a wood floor will last virtually a lifetime—which means you don’t have to replace it unless you grow tired of it . . . which, in our humble opinion, isn’t very likely. Our floors also enhance the value of your home. Homes with hardwood floors tend to command higher selling prices—and they often sell faster. What other floor types can you say that about? Carpet? Vinyl?

These days, most floors installed are of the prefinished variety. Our prefinished floors have nine layers of UV-cured Acrylic Urethane, including Aluminum Oxide in both base coats for added wear protection. That means they’re as tough as they come. Plus, our prefinished floors can be installed and enjoyed in the same day. Our unfinished floors are beautiful, too. And, because they are unfinished, you have the flexibility of matching color on site. They do, however, take a bit longer to install and finish and come with more dust and finish fumes.

Most definitely. We’ve gone to great lengths to make our UV-cured Acrylic Urethane finishes extra tough—and easy to clean—to help our floors stand up to traffic in the kitchen, bath, doorways, hallways, mud rooms, and so on. You need to consider, though, that hardwood species vary in hardness. The harder the wood, the better it is for high traffic areas. If you’re thinking about hardwood flooring for areas that see lots of heavy use, we would love to discuss the best hardwood for you.

Pets present a challenge . . . but not a huge one. If you keep your pet’s nails trimmed, floor scratching shouldn’t be a problem. Plus, our UV-cured Acrylic Urethane finishes are pretty darn tough.

Yes. Over time, wood changes color, typically darkening. Some woods change more than others. This is natural and part of the charm of real wood. The wood is gaining its “patina.” To make sure your hardwood floor ages uniformly—and gracefully—move your furniture, area rugs and mats around from time to time.

This depends on the type of floor you want, where you want it, and the type of sub floor it will be installed on. The basic installation methods are nail-down, stapled, glue-down and “floating,” (installation without nails, staples or glue). We would be happy to discuss the right method for you.

It is possible, however, hardwood floor installation is a skilled trade that requires talented hands to produce the best possible results. Feil, Inc. use highly skilled craftsmen to install our floors day in and day out. They not only do it right, but they know how to avoid the headaches and hassles even the handiest of homeowners can run into. Best bet—if you really want to DIY, talk to Feil, Inc. and see if you think the added cost for our crew to install your floor is worth it.