Living with Real Wood

Real Hardwood Floors Create Healthier Environments

Unlike carpets that can attract and retain a variety of allergens, real hardwood floors can promote better health by helping to improve the quality of your indoor air. Dust, pollen, pet dander, and other allergens do not collect as easily on hardwood, and they can be easily swept up when they do.

With up to $17.5 billion in health care costs and more than 6 million work and school days lost each year due to allergy-related illness, improving indoor air quality by using real hardwood makes sense.1

Another health benefit real hardwood has over vinyl, laminate, and other manufactured flooring types is in the number of chemicals that can be contained in the flooring product. Phthalates, formaldehyde, biocides, and fungicides are just some of the chemicals that show up in other manufactured flooring and can cause harmful health effects that can range from allergic reactions to liver or kidney damage or even birth defects.2

  1. https://woodfloors.org/health-benefits/
  2. https://www.allergystandards.com/news_events/chemicals-in-flooring/
1. Tree is planted and grows. 2. Trees naturally regenerate from stump sprouts and seeds. 3. Trees are carefully harvested. 4. Trees become flooring, furniture, whiskey barrels and a wide array of other products. 5. After these products have outlived their utility, they can be repurposed into valuable entities: - Woodchips for fuel - mulch for landscaping - charcoals for BBQing - shavings for horse stables - pulp for paper production and more 6. Wood is biodegradable; it can be composted to decompose with a year.