Do you want options in your wood floors? Unfinished hardwood flooring is a fantastic choice to consider. In addition to an extremely wide variety of colors, stains, finishes and styles, there are a lot of advantages to this type of hardwood flooring:

• Unfinished hardwood flooring lets you use a custom finish unique to your family's personality and the home's overall style
• Unfinished hardwood flooring has a wear layer of 5mm to 19.05mm (about a quarter to three-quarter inch) thick, which means you can refinish or rescreen it more times without replacing the floor
• Because of the sanding and on-site finishing process, this type of hardwood flooring is extremely stable and uniform, and allows for more consistent seals and finishes as it fills into the spaces and cracks
• They can be installed with corners, borders, inlays and other elements unique to your floor
• With this type of hardwood flooring, you can change the look for your floors before the wood is sealed and stain the floors in a wider range of colors
• You can order unfinished hardwood flooring in any species, width, lengths and thickness you want
• These hardwood floors can be matched to the flooring you already have
• With unfinished hardwood flooring, you have a choice of polyurethanes, which can be oil based, water based or made from Tung oil

As you decide whether or not to go with unfinished hardwood flooring, ask yourself a few questions:

• Do you need or want to maintain the historical integrity of your home?
• Are you looking for hardwood flooring with a unique width, species and/or color for your floors?
• Are you replacing all the floors in your home, or just those in a specific area?
• Does it need to match the floors that are already installed?

The certified experts at San Jose Hardwood Floors can help you choose and install the hardwood flooring of your choice. Come visit our showroom or contact us today for your free in-home quote!

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