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Canadian Flooring is a Toronto based distributor & importer of top quality hardwood flooring. Retailers, building contractors, flooring installers, architects and interior designers have come to depend upon Canadian Flooring for service and advice not usually available from other suppliers. We search all over the world for the best products and prices to serve homeowners, builders and contractors in order to meet their growing demand.

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 
          us at our beautiful showroom. We look forward to it!

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.

 

 
                                        
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