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Adding new or restored natural wooden flooring will definitely increase the value and comfort to any house and home immediately. Yours included.
It's a known fact - even before the 'credit-crunch' effect on the housing market.
FACT:
According to WoodCare adding wooden features to your home will increase its value between 5 to 15%.
From stripping down wooden banisters and exposing their natural character, re-instating real wood doors and especially installing real wooden floors in the main areas - it will all have an instant positive effect.
And it's not just that you can ask more for your house than your neighbour - estate agents and existing clients tell us again and again that homes with wooden floors sell quicker! A recent national survey amongst Estate Agents confirms this.
Potential buyers know the benefits of wooden flooring as well as you do, so when offered the choice between a house that already has (professionally) installed real wooden floors and a similar house without wooden flooring - and which will costs them more money, effort and time to add themselves - which one do you think will sell quicker and for more? It's an obvious answer of course.
Even if the colour of the wood floor isn't exactly to their liking, your buyer will know it's easier and cheaper to change it - with coloured polish to start with, later perhaps followed by sanding the floor and applying another colour - than to have to rip out carpet, buy and install a wooden floor and delay the moving date.
It's a 'buyers-market' nowadays - profit from it and offer your buyer the obvious choice, selling it for your price and quickly.
Rental-property owners: your potential tenant will perceive your property as more luxurious when you have real wooden flooring installed, hence is willing to pay more rent for it, increasing your ROI instantly.
FACT:
Real wooden flooring is one of the most anti-allergic floor covering there is. Over the last decennia there has been an increase in the numbers of people suffering from allergies, eczema and Asthma.
House dust is the major cause of allergy in people with yearlong runny or blocked nose and/or sneezing. In addition to these allergic reactions, dust can trigger and irritate Asthma and eczema.
A speck of dust may contain fabric fibres, human skin, bacteria, animal danders, pollen, grains, moulds spores, food particles, mites and mites-droppings. Mites cannot be seen without a microscope. They thrive in warm and humid conditions. Because they feed on skin scales, they love bedding, carpets, upholstered furniture, clothing, closets and car seats. They usually survive ordinary vacuuming because they burrow deep and are equipped with sucking pads on their feet.
In 2006 Dispatches on Channel 4 dedicated a two-part program to this increasing problem ("How to beat your kids Asthma") and all specialist consulted strongly advised to rip out carpets and vinyl - a major source of toxic and sometimes persistent substances in the environment, known to trigger attacks - and to replace it with wooden floors immediately.
Offering yourself, your children and your potential buyers a floor covering that doesn't trigger any attacks and is known to reduce the suffering of allergies and eczema almost immediately is the most practical and health-improving decision you can take.
No more constant sneezing, no more wheezing, no more itching skin are the most simple effects, we won't even go into the fact how life-threatening a severe Asthma attack can be.
Rental-property owners: the very same goes for you - how many potential tenants might suffer from allergies, eczema or Asthma? By offering them your property with the most anti-allergic floor covering around you improve the chance of renting it out tenfold.
FACT:
No floor covering is easier to clean than natural wooden flooring. Long gone are the days of polishing a wood floor on hands and knees or seeing 'skid-marks'- the modern finishing and maintenance materials have taken care of that.
A soft broom is all it takes for normal day to day care - easier done than dragging your (sometimes smelling of dust) vacuum cleaner out of the cupboard. And: clean is clean - no hidden dust or dirt like you can have with carpets.
Plus an ideal floorcovering when you have pets, as one of our clients discovered:
"I still don't know how I coped before with the moulding periods of my cats and dogs when we had carpets! Since we have wooden floors it takes no effort at all, just one simple sweep of a broom."
Spillages, little accidents are wiped off, cleaned off in no time at all without having to turn to chemicals, calling for a carpet-cleaning company or getting so frustrated with a persistent stain that the only option would be to replace the carpet or place an extra rug on top of it. (And knowing Murphy's Law - those accidents always tend to happen just before you're about to entertain the largest crowd ever in your home.)
Regular maintenance (only once every 5 to 6 months) will keep your floor healthy and even better protected against dirt and drips.
Plus there is another well known fact: every bit of TLC you spend on your natural wooden floor will increase its beauty, its lustre, its durability - it's as simple as that. Compare that with a carpet of only one or two years old and you'll see the extra advantage wooden flooring gives you immediately.
Rental-property owners: some tenants are just not careful enough with property belonging to someone else - a known fact. Another known fact is that dirty surfaces attract more dirt, or in other words: once a carpet looks worn, slightly damaged and dirty nobody is really going to care if it gets even dirtier or more damaged.
But, a floor covering that always looks clean and of which spillages are easily removed from tend to bring out the feeling of 'ownership'. Your tenants will take better care of 'their' lovely wooden floor than they will with a carpet. So no more need to replace the carpets every year, saving you a rather lot of money, grievance and aggravation in one simple go.
FACT:
Wooden floors are also called the best 'solid investment' you can add to your house - lasting you 30 - 40 years! If that's not a proper Return On Investment we don't know what other floor covering is.
Natural wooden flooring, taken care of properly - and that's another benefit: it's easy to care for - is the most durable floor covering you can have, increasing in beauty over the years.
FACT:
Natural wooden floors are NOT slippery, but come with the extra advantage of having a smooth surface on which furniture can be easily moved around. Adding protective felt-guards to legs of the chairs or tables don't make them slip away underneath you, but eases the effort when moving them.
Many elderly and physical impaired clients have remarked happily on this fact. Since installing wooden floors heavy chairs - or even normal dining chairs - are no longer an obstacle for them. They just 'ease' away when vacuum cleaning the room, when sitting down for breakfast, lunch or diner.
Rental-property owners: the 'grey-generation' will live independently longer and longer. When 'down-grading' in property because their own house is becoming too large to handle easily, an increasing number will be looking for luxurious, comfortable living accommodation.
Making their daily living circumstances easier by installing wooden floors to your property adds to their comfort, allowing them to stay independent for even more years and hence renting your property for a longer time.
FACT:
Most natural wooden flooring are eco-friendly. All Wood You Like's wooden flooring, from Basic Oak to Bespoke, come from sustainable sources, be it FSC or PEFC certified. Thanks to sustainable forest management more trees are planted than are harvested. In fact, European re-forestation grows by an area the size of Cyprus every year!
FACT:
Wood You Like caters for any budget and any interior design. Adding natural wooden flooring to increase the value of your house and the comfort of your home really doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
Our most popular floor for example is rather nicely priced at
£ 45.20 ex VAT per sq m supplied. Based on the average room size in a standard home: 4.5 by 4 meter you'll need 7 packs of 2.77 sq m = 19.39 sq m (including saw-waste).
An 'investment' of only £ 876.42 ex VAT (*1) for an instant value increasing transformation of your favourite room! For adding the comfort of easy to clean, anti-allergic, durable and eco-friendly floor covering to your home immediately!
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Remember: adding natural wooden flooring increases the value of your house and the comfort of your home immediately.
It's the most eco-friendly, easy to clean, anti-allergic, durable floor covering around. A beautiful 'Solid Investment' on all aspects with an above average Return On Investment - giving you years and years of comfortable living.
A wide selection of natural wooden flooring: From Basic Oak to Bespoke can be found in our secure Webshop
*1 = plus some extras for underlayment (£1.50 - £ 2.75 per sq m depending on the underlayment your underfloor needs).
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