If you are a health-conscious person you probably go to great lengths to keep your body healthy through diet and exercise, but did you know that the type of floors you have in your home also has an effect on your overall health and wellness?
In fact, the materials you use in your home can have a huge effect on your exposure to allergens, affect air quality and affect your ability to thoroughly clean your home.
This is why it’s important to choose hardwood flooring throughout your home.
Wood Floors are Easy to Sanitize
When compared to carpet, thoroughly cleaning hardwood floors is so much easier. While vacuuming carpet can help pick up the top layer of dirt, it takes deep cleaning from a professional steam cleaner to penetrate all the layers of carpet; layers that trap dirt, bacteria, mold, and allergens. Even after having a professional clean your carpets, it’s debatable how sanitized they truly are.
Tile grout can also be tricky to get super clean and often take hours of hard labor to fully sanitize. Synthetic flooring like linoleum can pull away from the subfloor and create pockets of air that become an impossible to clean surface in your home where mold can become a serious problem.
Hardwood floors are easy to completely sanitize on a regular, even daily, basis. Simply dust mop and then wipe down your floors with a hardwood-safe cleanser.
Hardwood Cuts Down on Allergens
Carpets are a huge dust and allergen trap in your home. The multiple layers of fabric and padding underneath allow for bacteria growth and dust mites to thrive. Even after vacuuming, carpet can still harbor these pesky allergens. Hardwood is easy to keep clean and free from allergens like dust mites, pollen and dust just by regularly dust mopping. It’s also much easier to see the dust on the top of your hardwood floors whereas carpet can look clean despite the underside harboring harmful mold and dust.
Increase Air Quality with Hardwood Floors
Each time you step on even the cleanest of carpet a small cloud of dust and allergens poofs up around your foot, unseen by the human eye. This dust and airborne allergens greatly affect the air quality of your home. Studies have shown that the inside air quality of your home is much improved with non-porous flooring like hardwood.
Air quality can greatly affect the health and wellbeing of your family members, especially those with severe allergies or ailments such as asthma.
When It Comes to a Clean Home, Choose Hardwood
It’s not surprising that the surfaces in your home affect your health just like your diet and level of exercise. Whether you’re concerned about allergens affecting your asthma or allergies, want to ensure your floors are thoroughly sanitized, or want to have better air quality in your home, hardwood floors are the choice for you.
Are you ready to change your home for the better? Cameron the Sandman hardwood flooring specialists are a #1 choice throughout metro Detroit for many reasons. They have been providing hardwood flooring services throughout Michigan for over 80 years. Our installation team is highly skilled and knowledgeable and provides the highest quality workmanship in the wood flooring industry. If you need to install new wood floors, refinish the flooring you have or need wood floor restoration services, we are here and happy to help. Contact us today!