Characteristics of Wood for Flooring When researching the benefits of using hardwood flooring in a home, one answer that is consistently given is “durability.” Granted, wood is one of the strongest natural materials available—so durable, in fact, that entire homes can be built from it. That said, several important questions should be considered when evaluating different levels of durability: Are all wood flooring products equally strong? Is their durability primarily resistance to physical impacts, or is it more about internal dimensional stability? Does the strength of the [...]