Choosing the Type of Mirage Floors

One of the most acclaimed and leading in the flooring industry, Mirage flooring is highly recommended brand for its over-all top-notch wood floor quality that is incomparable and truly commendable. Since installing Mirage floors in any interior house or commercial project indicates a long-term investment to be seriously taken, a thorough planning and sifting through details can significantly facilitate in coming up with a sound choice—one that is bound to last for generations.

Mirage flooring is designed to suit whichever kind of application is needed and whatever environment to be considered. Basically, one of the significant factors to consider is the type of Mirage flooring.

Solid Hardwood Mirage Flooring

Measuring a standard of ¾” (19mm) thick, solid hardwood Mirage flooring is made of planks that are totally made of hardwood. Owners can opt for unfinished or prefinished boards depending on their preference and necessity. Unfinished boards can give the owners the liberty to customize the stain as well as type of finish to be applied by a specialist, but unfortunately doesn’t guarantee from wear and tear. On the other hand, Mirage flooring only offers prefinished hardwoods that are factory-finished and already undertaken necessary procedures in a controlled and ideal environment, ensuring odor-free and installation-ready flooring.

Glueless Engineered Hardwood Mirage Flooring

Tagged as ecologically friendly, glueless engineered hardwood Mirage flooring is consists of recycled materials and is a convenient flooring alternative for re-installation since it can easily be removed and installed in another place. On layman’s term, it’s usually called a floating floor, which doesn’t need to be secured to any subfloor. Glueless engineered Mirage flooring can be installed over any other engineered floor, plywood, concrete subfloor or over subfloor equipped with radiant heat system.

Engineered Hardwood Mirage Flooring

Made of several layers of wood on top of solid plywood bottom, engineered hardwood Mirage flooring is perfectly designed for highly traffic areas such as commercial areas due to its durability that is way ahead than solid wood planks. Its high resistance to seasonal expansion makes it an ideal option for installation to places with varying humidity. Moreover, engineered hardwood Mirage flooring can be directly installed on every type of subfloors even on concrete floors with radiant heating system.

To choose the type of Mirage flooring is more than just about its appearance. Carefully plan and talk with a specialist to help you come up with the best flooring your dwelling or commercial area needs. Let the experts give you relative advices considering your taste, style, environment and budget.

With more than a quarter of century of significant experiences in providing quality wood floors and offering various services to our clients, we at Wood Floor Planet guarantee nothing else but only excellence at all time as our clients put their valuable trust on our name. To find out more information and to receive a free estimate, visit our Mirage flooring webpage or give us a call to 212-252-3838

Going for the All-Natural Look? Choose Strand Woven Bamboo Flooring

The trend nowadays is to go green. Whether it is about your diet, your lifestyle, your electricity consumption, going green and being environmentally-friendly has engaged a lot of people. That is why more and more clients are asking for types of flooring which can help them achieve the all-natural look. One of our recommendations for that is strand woven bamboo flooring.

Photo courtesy of Hawa Bamboo Flooring

If you will notice in most Manhattan and New York establishments, strand woven bamboo flooring can readily give your home or office a natural finish. From the name itself, strand woven bamboo flooring is made using interwoven fibers from the bamboo. Once the weaving process is completed, the material will be placed under pressure and heat while applying adhesive materials. This is to ensure structural integrity and durability of the finished product (3,000 pounds-force Janka Hardness).

Formaldehyde

When choosing strand woven bamboo flooring, it’s very important to make sure the adhesive used in the manufacturing process doesn’t contain more formaldehyde than allowed by U.S. OSHA, European E0, CARB Phase 1 and CARB Phase 2. Here at Wood Floor Planet, we have reputable strand woven bamboo flooring brands available such EcoFusion and Hawa that comply with formaldehyde emission standards. Feel free to browse our bamboo flooring selection here or give us a call to 212-252-3838 for more information.