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At first I was a little hesitant to get wood flooring installed throughout my house. I know like anything else it needs to be taken care of and I was really worried that it would damage easily and become an eye sore. I have always enjoyed having a carpeted house, and never really wanted to have a home that was done in solid wood flooring, but my husband really wanted it, and well, convinced me that it would look really nice. When we first met with a few of the companies that we were considering to install our wood flooring, we asked a lot of questions, we really wanted to understand the process and the costs involved with doing this, but then after meeting with quite a few different companies, we really started to understand the process, until one company threw us a curve ball. They started talking to us about underfloor heating for wood flooring. To our surprise, none of the other companies had even mentioned that such a thing existed. We listened carefully to the man as he explained that this was a coiled system that they installed under the wood flooring and that in addition to making the house more energy efficient and making the flooring itself keep a little bit higher temperature, that installing a system like this under our new hard wood floor would preserve it and help keep it from getting damaged and make it last longer. He said that because wood shrinks and expands with temperature changes, that it is a good idea to have a heating system installed to help regulate the wood temperature and that would help keep it from expanding and contracting all the time. Regulating the woods temperature would allow us to insure that our wood floor would last for many more years and continue looking great.

Well, honestly, after the guy left, we weren't really sure why the other companies hadn't told us about such a thing, so we hopped online to find out more information ourselves about this underfloor heating that the man had explained to us. What we found was basically that doing this could save us a lot of money in the long run, plus it would allow us to have a more fuel efficient home. Needless to say, that is the company we went with. At least we knew, that they knew their business.