With unfinished you have the ability to refinish easily as well as enjoy the natural imperfections of the wood and with prefinished you appreciate the convenience of being able to choose a perfectly.
Installing unfinished wood flooring without sanding.
But once you factor in finishing costs prefinished ends up.
Today you can get solid hardwood flooring prefinished in a variety of stain colors with a durable long lasting factory warranted finish.
Tech install 12 4 19 flooring 101 home solid hardwood flooring installation unfinished solid hardwood installation instructions.
How to install unfinished oak hardwood flooring.
It is one of the most abundant.
Despite the ever increasing selection of hardwood flooring materials available oak continues to be the standard.
Sanding levels the edges of the floorboards which can vary from one another by as much as 1 4 inch.
At dave s we have 40 years of installing hardwood flooring and generally we have noticed this decision comes down to these main factors.
Prefinished solid wood floors initially cost more than unfinished wood flooring about 2 per square foot for a good grade of red oak.