Maple Wood Flooring
Now, I am a dog person. I know floors will be scratched and I have no problem with the "worn in" look...It is still a floor...meant for walking on! |
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| We have some real cherry wood flooring, (Bruce wood at that) in one room that we stole as the result of someone at Lowes miss ordering the wrong color for someone else. Their loss, our gain. It's in a back bedroom that sees very little dog traffic so I'm no help there. I can say that if you get Bruce's pre-finished wood, it's got a superior finish that seems nearly bullet proof. However, we have laminate flooring throughout the rest of the main floor and this stuff is tough. The only issue we've had is when puddles go unnoticed, the liquid will cause the laminate's base to swell; not good. As for scratches, it doesn't. I think the next time we attack a floor to refinish, we're going with big tiles. Easy to maintain, cooler for the dogs and no swelling. Hope this helps some... Vance |
i'm wondering about nail lengths? the old victorian had almost all hardwood floors, never had any scratches from the racing duo.  had both original 100 yr old floors and bruce prefinished in the good living room. vance is quite correct that water or liquids is the enemy to any wood flooring.just don't let children rearrange furniture without help on new bruce flooring.  |
Well, I went ahead and ordered the floor  The floor is going in the living room, dining room, entrance way and hallway. Dogs are hardly in the living room - well all of us are hardly in the living room as we have a huge Great room we spend most of the time in. My husband says the living room is "for show"  In the kitchen itself is going a tumbled marble type floor like you put in a bathroom. Figure any floor that works in the bathroom, with all the humidity and water, has to hold up well in the kitchen too! And the dogs seek out our bathroom floor when its hot...now they will have the whole kitchen to lay around in! And unlike last year when they came in with all that snow in their feet, I won't have to lay blankets all over the place to keep the water from ruining the then wood flooring! |
| I have Bruce prefinished solid oak throughout the house except the kitchen (slate). Dogs are allowed in the kitchen and my bedroom. Home Depot has an expensive rubber backed carpet runner material that I put in the hall (13') and the most travelled area of the BR. The dogs seem to prefer to stay on them because they get better traction on the carpet. Once a week they get marrow bones with peanut butter in them and they know they have to keep them on the carpet. As for furniture, put felt tabs under all the legs. Makes them easy to move without scratching. I even put it under my grand piano. Of course the best prevention of scratching is to keep the nails cut. |
| George, Ha, ha I know about the rubber backed mats! We had them all over when I had the wood floors for traction and especially when they came in from the rain or snow. What we will do for our dogs! I plan to put the felt tips under the little bit of furniture in the kitchen area and my baby grand...Oh, boy..the baby grand sufferred a lot of smoke damage. To the tune of ten grand...Hope the insurance covers it! My piano had wheels on the front legs. And I plan to put the felt pads under all legs... So, you play piano???? |
| The worst think i did was putting them on my 2 levels of stairs. The dogs would slip and fall back down. I'm going to have to have someone come in and sand the runner down and refinish my cherry hardwood floor runners on stairs. SOLUTIONS catalog has been great! They have rubber backed stair runner...I bought enough for all of my stiars and i am so please with them. They are washing machine/dryer friendly, they look nice, also come in larger rugs too. And Dee is much happier! |
Ali, luckily we are in a ranch with no stairs!  In fact, my dogs don't even know how to go up and down stairs! |
Ali wrote: The worst think i did was putting them on my 2 levels of stairs. The dogs would slip and fall back down. I'm going to have to have someone come in and sand the runner down and refinish my cherry hardwood floor runners on stairs. SOLUTIONS catalog has been great! They have rubber backed stair runner...I bought enough for all of my stiars and i am so please with them. They are washing machine/dryer friendly, they look nice, also come in larger rugs too. And Dee is much happier! Ali, thanks! We are moving into a 2-story with hardwoods, I'll have to get some of these! |
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