When the winter weather intensifies, you may find yourself considering options for keeping yourself warm. Apart from upgrading your furnace, there's also another step you can take: heating your floors. Heated floors produce radiant heat from below your flooring -- and the hot air then rises up, warming the rest of your home. Here's what you need to know.

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While hardwood flooring is usually a good bet in this case, you still should think critically about what flooring you have installed.

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When most people think of vinyl flooring, they think of cheap, thin flooring designed to only last a couple years at most. This could not be further from the truth! Don’t knock it before you’ve tried it. Vinyl floors are versatile, and they rank high in terms of durability in the right situation. When in a wet environment, such as a bathroom, for example, a vinyl floor can last even longer than hardwood.

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Hardwood floors and wood floors alike are known for their extreme durability and longevity. There have been cases of hardwood lasting for more than a lifetime. However, their longevity depends on the type of wood used and proper maintenance on the part of the owner. Regardless, wood floors tend to be the longest-lasting flooring type out there, sometimes outlasting the original owner’s time in their homes.

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So it’s time for your hardwood’s refinishing, and with the help of your favorite floor care specialist, you’re looking forward to having glossy, like-new flooring beneath your feet. But there’s one key decision you need to make before your flooring pro gets to work: what flooring finish are you planning to have applied?

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All hardwood flooring will need professional maintenance, like re-coating and sanding, at various points in its lifespan. It’s a fact of the flooring type! However, hardwood floors also require a good degree of maintenance on the part of the purchaser. Taking care of your hardwood floor ensures its characteristic durability for years to come, and doing so can also extend the time between professional maintenance sessions.

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Wood floors can be bought raw or prefinished—but only one category can meet the needs of the modern homeowner.

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Laying flooring, no matter the type, is a lot more complicated than simply unrolling spools of the stuff—that’s why you should hire a floor care pro to do the job! In addition to the complexity of the process as a whole, mistakes can cost you greatly in terms of both stress and money, as not all flooring types are forgiving of amateur errors.

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If you’re the type of family that never knows what will be around the corner when it comes to your home, finding a flooring type can be difficult. From chasing toddlers around to entertaining guests, you need something that can be dressed down or dressed up, that can stand strong against stains and high-heels and look great doing it.

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The beauty of solid wood floors—aside from their obviously kingly appearance, of course—is that they can be refinished. Refinishing, as we covered in our flooring blog on the subject, can make a worn-out piece of hardwood flooring look like new again, not to mention up your home’s value and increasing the longevity of the material.

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