Hardwood Flooring is Just Better All Round - Right

People buy wood floors because of their stylish appearance and some even because it is a lot easier to keep clean, but there is another potential benefit that is more often overlooked. Like everything else nowadays you can buy wood flooring online.

The benefit of wood flooring that you won't read on the label is the potential health benefit from the fact that it is so easy to clean; there is nowhere for dust mites to hide.

Cases of asthma and other similar diseases and ailments have increased greatly especially in children since the use of carpets became widespread. Even some doctors have conceded that the dust-mites clinging to carpet-fibres even after they have been vacuumed are at least part of the problem.

It isn't just the carpets that are at fault; carpets encourage people, especially children to lie on the floor. This puts them even closer to the harmful dust and mites.

As I covered in the last post, you would be surprised just how much dust and dirt your vacuum cleaner is not picking up.

I said:

"We once had a sales rep come round and show us a Kirby hoover (yes it was years ago, when I were just a lad, read in Yorkshire accent).

"The demonstration was scary; he got us to vacuum a square foot of rug as many times as we thought it would take to get all the dust and make it completely clean, so we did. Then he vacuumed the same area once back and forth with the Kirby and proudly showed us the amount of dust and dirt it had collected.

"This was supposed to make us realise that we couldn’t live without the Kirby and buy. Instead it made us wonder how much dust it was leaving behind, and invest in hardwood flooring the following day."

Arguments for carpets include:

• Carpets create a cosier feel
• Carpets make a house easier (and less expensive) to heat
• Carpets are far cheaper at the outset

I'll answer them in reverse order:

Yes, carpets are cheaper than hardwood flooring. But by the time you replace your carpets every five years, they will end up costing you a lot more than the hardwood flooring which would have lasted your lifetime and beyond.

Houses with hard wood flooring can be just as warm and easy to heat as carpets, because they offer an equal if not greater level of energy saving efficient floor insulation, if properly laid.

As for the cosy feel, you haven't felt cosy till you've been in a room where a living flame (real or fake) is reflecting off Tuscan Big Earth flooring onto cream walls.

But for me the biggest thing is my children's health. We currently have carpets, but this is only because we are buying our own place soon, and plan to invest in some of McKay Floorings finest hardwood flooring then.

Article written by Liam Bailey, of SEO copywriting firm Write About Property.