Caring and maintain hardwood floors needs the same amount of care you would give to your berber carpet. If you take care and maintain your hardwood floors, they’ll only look better with age. On the other hand, if you abuse and pay no attention to your floor, you’ll be left with very bad looking hardwood floors overtime. Having clean hardwood floors will increase the longevity of your asset.

Here is a list of things that will help preserve your wonderful floor after the wood has been installed:

• Having bristle type mats at all exterior door entries will be helpful as they will collect bigger pieces of grit or rubble that might scratch or damage your new floor in different ways.

• Placing area rugs at all entry points inside the house can be a nice way to decorate your home as well as protect the nice floor.

• Sometimes furniture can damage your floor too, so use protectors that go underneath the furniture to avoid damaging your hardwood floors. You should also check if grit was collected around the furniture every time you sweep. This will minimize the chances of your floor getting scratched.

• All water areas should also have area rugs, the kitchen being one of the most important places. You can never be too safe, so other places would be in front of fridges with an ice maker, dishwasher and the kitchen sink area.

• Moving appliances can sometimes prove to be very challenging on hardwood floors, so anytime you move them around, be sure to use protectors to avoid scratches and marks. Delivery guys might not take the necessary measures to prevent damaging your floor, so you should tell them beforehand to be careful. I would also recommend you use 1/8″ Masonite board that will avoid damage to your floor. Make sure your floor is very clean before using this board because even a small piece of grit can damage your floor and will make all the effort of moving the appliances futile.

I would suggests that you sweep or vacuum the hardwood floors often to avoid the possibility of scratches or other types of damage to your floors when they are being installed. You could also get rid of tools that are unnecessarily on the floor and put them somewhere safe. To be safer, after you clean up the floor, you can cover that part or high traffic areas with Masonite board to avoid any kind of damage. The Masonite boards, which are typical 4×2 sheets that can be had for cheap at home improvement stores or online, are a small price to pay to finally end up with an amazing looking floor.