What types of hardwood flooring are available?
While there is a vast assortment of wood types and colors to choose from, solid wood floors usually fall into three main types: • Strips – Most installations use strip flooring, in which separate floor boards approximately 2 inches wide are fitted together by tongue and groove and nailed to the subflooring below. • Plank – Similar to strips, but the boards are about 3 inches wide. • Parquet – parquet flooring comes in blocks rather than strips. The blocks are fitted together to create a pattern over the floor’s surface. Standard blocks are 6 x 6, but specialty patterns can be up to 36 square.
