We maintain an extensive inventory. Most popular hardwood flooring is always in stock. We are small enough to take care of all your residential needs right down to the last detail and large enough to take care of commercial projects as well. Not only are we able to give you many ideas for a beautiful floor, we can also make your ideas for a beautiful floor a reality. If you can imagine it in your mind, we can put it on your floor!
Canadian
Flooring is fully insured, providing top quality craftsmanship, service, and
reliability. Don't just have your floors done… have your floors done right!
This means that
many of our customers come from hundreds of miles away because
they know that they
can only find these extraordinary prices and selection at
Canadian Flooring, so come visit
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Hardwood & Laminate Flooring Sales in Toronto
Unfinished Hardwood flooring vs. Pre-finished Hardwood flooring
Both unfinished and
pre-finished flooring have their benefits, as well as disadvantages that
can come with it. To determine what is right for you depends on a factor of
thing. Some include how fast you need the job done, if it’s a new or existing house, the cost
you’re willing to spend, and possibly even if you’re planning on doing the installation yourself.
Pre-finished is a much quicker option. A good choice if you are already
living in your home for some time and you are renovating and would like to move your furniture back
as soon as possible to the area. You don’t need to do any sanding or finishing, as it’s
already done to the flooring. This means no dust all over the house or harsh
chemicals lingering for some time after installation. Installation takes less
time, effort and energy, and no time is required for setting. The clean up is
also much simpler.
Some people prefer the end result of laying down an unfinished floor. When
you install pre-finished flooring, the finishing is already done separately
with each plank. When you lay down unfinished flooring, you finish the area as whole. The finish seals all boards together,
with no spaces between the planks. This gives the floor a more uniform look, and can even be better
in regards to moisture resistance due to the seal of the surface as a whole.
A nice advantage to unfinished hardwood flooring is that you can choose the
exact colour or stain you’d like your floors to be. However, nowadays there are plenty of options
to choose from on pre-finished hardwood flooring anyways. Finishing of
pre-finished hardwood flooring made on factory is much stronger than
finishing made by professionals on-site. Standard factory finish is usually
done with 10 coats plus one top coat with scratch resistant aluminum oxide
finish. This is not comparable to the 2 or 3 coats only that can be done on-site.
Consider this: if you chose unfinished hardwood flooring and some of the
floor gets scratched or dented, it is virtually impossible to do anything about it. Pre-finished hardwood flooring is beveled, so there are small spaces between the planks since each plank is finished
separately in the factory. If a piece gets scratched or dented, an installer can remove
the piece and install a new one. Unfinished hardwood flooring is finished all together in the area
closing all the small gaps between the planks. You cannot remove a plank from
the area, meaning you have to sand and re-finish the area as a whole.
Last
factor to consider is money, which is almost always an important factor to
most people. Pre-finished flooring when you buy the material, all that’s
left to pay for is installation. Say the hardwood flooring material ranges
from $2.99 up to even $8.99, you add around $1.50-$2.50 for installation. If you buy unfinished hardwood flooring it will still cost
you around $2.50 up to even $7.99. It’s only normally $1.00 less than pre-finished flooring.
However, instead of simply adding on installation costs, you have to add on finishing on site costs as
well. Finishing on site ranges from $1.50 to about $2.50 depending on if it’s natural finish
or stained. It can start to cost you much more to have unfinished flooring installed.
