Flooring Inflormation

Everyone is always asking me something about hard wood flooring. What's the hardest type of flooring? How do i clean my wood floors? What's the difference between laminates, engineered, and solid wood floors?
Well, here are some answers for you guys, good luck.

The hardest Type of wood floors are is an African Mahogany. However, the African Mahogany is extremely hard to come by and is typically out of most peoples price range. Another reason you don't really ever hear about African Mahogany is because it is a very dark floor with lots of color variation, making perhaps a little too rustic for those who can afford it.
After that, the next hardest floors are your Teaks, Jatobas and Ipes. These three floors are about as hard and pretty as they come. These are the most popular exotic hardwoods (excluding Koa) because they are beautiful, exceptionally hard, and a valuable addition to any home.
To clean your hardwood floors please just use a little common sense. NO MOP AND BUCKET EVER! Moisture is the last thing you want to add to your humidity sensitive floors. So please just use a soft bristle indoor broom to keep the dust off it. Also recommend a "dry" mop, that is a light spray of a bottled cleaner used in conjunction with a terry cloth mop head. This small amount of moisture will not affect your floor, and will help return a buffed shiny appearance.
Note: you will want to avoid every oil based floor cleaner, due to the fact that the dust will bond with the oil and leave an unattractive film over your gorgeous wood.
Finally, the difference between wood floors, laminate floors and solid wood floors is quite simple. 1) Wood Floors: Solid wood floors are exactly that, a solid 3/4", 1/2/", or 5/8" piece of wood. It should be tongue and grooved on all four sides, or at least the 2 long edges. These floors must be nailed down to a subfloor when installing them.
2) Engineered wood floors, are made from real wood. However the core of this product is made of layers of plywood. This maximizes stability, and even a more exact cut. The precision of milling on engineered wood floors is far more precise that milled solids. These floors can be floated, glued down and or nailed down. Their versatility, and price has quickly boosted this type of floorings popularity.
3) Laminate floors: These floors are made of MDF or Particle board with a layer of hard durable plastic on top. These floors are typicaly made with a locking system for easy installs for do it yourelfers. Also they come with a pad attached so that they may be easily floated over concrete or wood subfloors.

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