Historic Floors of Oshkosh

History
Developed during the middle ages in Europe, elaborately designed hardwood floors were painstakingly crafted for castles, monastries and other significant buildings.   Nineteenth century European immigrants brought the woodworking skills needed to produce these floors for American homes.

Historic Floors went from predominately historic home restoration to new home construction.  Over 90% of our floors now go into new, upscale homes.

There are three basic types of wood floors - solid, engineered and laminated.  And there are two basic types of hardwood flooring - solid and engineered. Engineered hardwood floors are made from layers (plies) of both hardwood and softwood. The top layer is typically a solid ply of the species.   Solid hardwood flooring is not made up of any plies.  It is the pure solid hardwood species and typically costs more.  The last is laminated, high performance laminated floors are precision engineered.  The assembly is fused together under tremendous heat and pressure to form a single unit of unprecedented strength and stability.

Installation Information

Nail/staple down, glue down and floating are the three main installation methods. The floating method is the most flexible as it allows for installation on or below grade, over radiant heat floors; in fact, over virtually any subfloor.