Hardwood floors are nice to have in your home and look great; but what do you do when you have pets such as dogs? With their nails and constantly going inside and outside, they bring in elements from outside that can make your beautiful hardwood floors look crummy; not only bringing things inside, sometimes they create messes on the floor because they didn't get outside. Here are some hardwood floor types that can withstand the conditions of owning a dog or cat.
If you have a pet, you will want to get pre-finished hardwood floors. This will keep dirt and such out of the fibers in your floors. An option for pre-finished wood floors that will tolerate your pets will be laminate floors, such as pergo.
Another thing to remember is to get hardwood floors, not softwood. No matter what you do to softwood floors, such as pine, you won't be able to prevent the floor from getting destroyed.
Brazilian walnut floors are good for pets as well since it is dense. This floor is so dense that people have even been known to use it for exterior decks.
Another option to have nice floors that can take a beating, look to hard maple. You can count on this type of flooring being able to handle what you can dish out because it is often used for basketball courts.
An option that is durable that not many people have caught onto yet is bamboo flooring. This is a durable type of flooring because despite actually being a grass, not wood, it has resin mixed with the strands of bamboo that make the flooring very hard.
Hope you enjoy your great new floors and your pets!