Floor Guide - Why Hand Scraped/Wood vs. Others
 
1.  Why did I select hand scraped wood floors over carpet/tile/pre-treated/finished wood planks when hand scraped wood floors are "typically" one of the more expensive flooring options? Key is they do not have to be!
 
Two reasons:
First, my objective was to have a low maintenance floor that would eliminate expensive and repetitive carpet replacement with occasional pet accidents from one of my oldest dogs. Hand scraped wood flooring was one of the few flooring options in which I was able to have the entire wood surface coated with a wood sealing polyurethane coat. While tile was an option, I was concerned about re-selling my house and the possibility of cold floors associated with tile/marble in the Fall and Winter months.
 
Second, hand scraped wood floors are part of a growing stylish trend found in MOST new high end designer homes where re-sale value is almost assured to go up once this type of flooring is installed.
 
If you were to walk in most new high end homes, hand scraped wood floors are typically what you will find! Regardless of the very rich look it adds to any room where hand scraped wood floors are installed, I was trying to find the most versatile flooring replacement to aid in my war against one of my older dog's occasional pet accidents. So why not install much less expensive pre finished wood flooring?
 
Most pre-treated/finished wood floor installations are not able to be sealed with a topical coating such as the polyurethane once the wood planks are installed. My hand scraped wood floors were able to be scraped and then stained to my liking. Wood installed in a hand scraped installation is "scraped" on site and is able to be stained to your liking and then coated/sealed with up to three coats of polyurethane. Therefore creating a virtually leak proof easy to clean alternative to many other flooring options I researched.