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Porter Hardwood Flooring
Phone: (501) 529-8235
Fax: (501) 819-0695
PorterHardwood@alltel.blackberry.com



Porter Hardwood Flooring can offer any color match or color specification on any of the floors we offer for only a $0.50sq/ft up charge. Minimum of a 1,000 sq/ft order is required for special color application. As with all of our flooring on the finest 20 year Aluminum Oxide Finish will be used in the finish process. All that needs to be done is for you to supply us with a sample of the color or written description of the color you are trying to obtain. After that our finish technicians will run a sample of the color on the floor of your choosing and mail it back to you for approval. Customer will incur all freight charges for the sample. Pre-Finished Profit Opporpunities Porter Hardwood Flooring offers companies producing unfinished hardwood flooring a way to expand your buisness by offering prefinished products with no investment in a plant or equipment. Let us finish your floor to your specs for you. We offer to apply today's wear-resistant, Aluminum Oxide Finishes to your unfinished product lines at competitve prices. Choose your luster level from low to high or anywhere in between you choose the gloss level of your finish. Please call with any questions about our finish line capabilities. There is a minimum sq/ft requirment for our prefinish opportunities. Wood Flooring Wood flooring is a type of flooring made from the timber of hardwoods, or of spruce or hard pine. There are two basic manufactured types of hardwood. Wood flooring comes unfinished, and once installed is sanded, and then finished on site. More modernly, the product is Pre-finished in a factory. The products that are Pre-finished are often a polyurethane finish that has added aluminum oxide, however some companies use titanium dioxide or other oxides instead. These metal oxide finishes are used in various types of floor coverings and increase the wear a hardwood floor can handle. Solid Hardwood Flooring Solid hardwoods are typically 3/4" thick, although some do come in 5/8" or 1/2" thicknesses as well. These types of hardwood flooring can be installed with a nail-down installation method over wooden sub floors. These types of hardwoods are also very susceptible to the effects of moisture and temperature, because hardwoods expand and contract with moisture and temperature changes in the atmosphere. Since hardwoods expand and contract in the width of the grain, these types of hardwood flooring are not recommended to be installed over a concrete slab, unless otherwise stated by the manufacturer. Engineered Hardwood Flooring Rather than having one solid piece of hardwood, the engineered hardwood method uses layers of hardwood veneer to create a product that can range in thickness from 3/8" to 5/8" thick. The wood veneer can range in thickness depending on the manufacturer. In order to create an engineered hardwood, these veneer layers are stacked on top of each other with the grain of the wood facing perpendicular to each other. Once the desired thickness is achieved, the boards are then cut into the correct board width. From there, the boards are then manufactured to have a tongue or groove on the edges. The final step is to add stain if necessary, and add an aluminum oxide finish. By doing this, the engineered hardwood becomes less susceptible to the effects of moisture and temperature change, because wood expands and contracts in the width of the grain direction. Therefore engineered hardwood is referred to as being dimensionally stable in a concrete slab environment. Because of its dimensional stability, engineered hardwood can be glued directly to concrete above or below grade, as opposed to solid hardwood which is not recommended for most slab installations. Engineered Hardwood Flooring is a great alternative for slab-built homes in humid climates.