French Oak Flooring is essentially oak from France There's a reason solid French Oak solid timber flooring is considered the gold standard for so many homeowners and house-hunters: they're beautiful, durable, and incredibly versatile. Plus, they work with just about any design and colour scheme.
Wood floors connect the homeowner to nature and the outdoors, plus they're easy to clean and care for, hypoallergenic, and sustainable.
If you're new to the subject, there are many reasons to invest in wood floors—and lots to know about how best to maintain and clean them. French Oak Boards are no different to good wine. Cultivated over time, there simply is no substitute for the quality produced when creating these fine products.
The three major traits to expensive wine - oak, time and terroir. Oak barrels are expensive because only 4 barrels can be made from a 200 year old oak tree. French barrels are in demand so they cost about twice as much as American barrels.
Holding the wines for years takes up space and costs money.
As the terroir becomes more specific and more scarce, the price usually jumps up by $5. For instance, if you buy a generic ‘California’ wine it might cost $12 compared to a ‘Sonoma’ wine at $17. Some regions are so small and in demand that the price becomes exponential like Vosne-Romanée in Burgundy.
So when selecting flooring Certified FSC Sustainable Old Growth Genuine French Oak is the only choice. You will be choosing a superior product with unique regional characteristics such as cathedral grain patterns from a single origin region of France.
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