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Maintaining wood flooring: is it wood? My daddy used to say, if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is probably a duck. The wood flooring category of hard-surface flooring constitutes a growing segment of our industry, but is it all actually wood?

Publication: ICS Cleaning Specialist
Publication Date: 01-SEP-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Maintaining wood flooring: is it wood? My daddy used to say, if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is probably a duck. The wood flooring category of hard-surface flooring constitutes a growing segment of our industry, but is it all actually wood?(Hard Floor Maintenance Opportunities)

Article Excerpt
The popularity of wood flooring is such that other categories of floor coverings are entering the picture. These wood floor imitators resemble wood in various ways.

Even though the floor may look like wood, it is often not wood at all. This mistake can lead to some rather precarious situations and costly mistakes when it comes to maintenance.

Wood flooring has been around for a long time. It is a natural product produced from trees. Timber or lumber, depending on where you are from, is the term for trees that have been cut down and sawn into boards of various sizes and dimensions for all manner of products. One of the products is, of course, true wood flooring.

There are basically two types of wood flooring available:...

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