The Greatest Myths about Solid Oak Flooring

It doesn’t matter where you’ve purchased your home’s solid oak flooring or which type of finish you’ve used with it. Either way, none of the wrongful expectations below will come true.

A Perfectly Flat Finish

No wood finish can ever achieve a perfectly flat surface for wood plank flooring for the simple reason that every plank of solid oak you use for your flooring will differ according to grain type and consequently texture as well. In other words, it’s the wood itself that has varying levels of textures and no wood finish can correct that.

Indent-Free Flooring

Yes, solid oak flooring is a type of hard wood flooring. But hard doesn’t mean invincible. There will come a time that your home’s flooring would suffer from indents. You can do a lot of things to prevent this or at least delay it from happening but if you don’t take good care of your home’s flooring then the indents will appear sooner or later.

For starters, indents are more likely to appear in high-traffic areas and especially when occupants have a preference for wearing sharp and pointed, floor-scratching and denting heels. Secondly, don’t expect wood finish to perform miracles for your flooring. They do provide an extra layer of protection but that layer would still wear over time.

Uniform Color

Last but not the least, please don’t expect solid oak flooring to possess the exact same shade from one end to another. That’s just not possible. Even if you’ve personally made sure that all the planks come from the exact same tree, that won’t make a difference. A tree can produce several wood planks that vary not only in terms of color but grain type as well. Certainly, you can’t expect any kind of wood finish to turn this around and suddenly transform your home’s flooring into the same shade.