Budget driven projects don’t have to be “cheap Charlie” any longer. At Historic Floors we’ve worked hard to select some pretty great floors for both commercial and residential options that use “live-sawn” wood. These floors have many of the same features and benefits of solid
Hardwood flooring remains a great investment for adding value to your real estate. According to national real estate experts and the HBA, hardwood flooring is probably the single greatest return on investment that you can make in your home. Wood flooring has insulating value as
Historic Floor Company is best known for its signature brands of solid, wide plank flooring, but we strive to serve all our customer's flooring needs! Because of the increased popularity of engineered hardwood floors, we now offer a wide selection. There are numerous reasons for the growing popularity
Hardwood flooring types vary in the St. Louis area, as they do across the United States. Over the years, both red and white oak became common for hardwood flooring due to its overabundance and generally favorable characteristics-most notably to withstand high amounts of foot traffic.
St. Louis, the hometown of Historic Floor Company, is synonymous with great diversity in the history of hardwood flooring. Prior to the turn of the 20th century, most of the hardwood floors installed in the St. Louis area were materials known for their dimensional
When Historic Floor Company started up in 2001, the phrase "engineered hardwood flooring" stood for something cheap to mimic the real thing-- solid hardwood flooring. Knock-offs meant products that looked like real wood floors but, were fake to the core. The laminate hardwood
(Information below obtained through the research of Eric Sloan library and the Parker Mills Nail Company c. 1918) Hand made, square nails made from iron date back to 3000 B.C. according to archeological digs. It is well known from research that the Romans hand-forged nails which