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Species selection is a durability decision before it is an aesthetic one, and the Janka scale is how it gets measured. Hickory sits around 1820, maple 1450, red oak 1290, American cherry 950. Cherry in a family kitchen will show every dropped pan, and no finish changes that.
Stain behaviour is the second thing to settle and the one that surprises people most. Red oak carries a pink undertone that fights grey and white-washed finishes no matter how many coats go on. White oak takes those colours cleanly. If you have a colour in mind, it should decide the species rather than the other way round.
Acclimation is the step that gets skipped and it causes most of the failures we are called to look at. Wood needs days on site at working temperature and humidity before it is fitted. An installer who wants to lay flooring the day it arrives is building a floor that cups or gaps within a season, and no amount of care afterwards undoes it.
We measure in your home, check subfloor moisture while we are there, and specify to the room rather than to a price point.
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Engineered hardwood is real wood over a plywood core, and that core is what makes it dimensionally stable enough to go over a concrete slab and below grade where solid hardwood cannot. In a basement or on a slab, engineered is not a compromise, it is the correct specification.
The number that matters is wear layer thickness in millimetres. Four millimetres or more can be sanded and refinished at least once, which gives the floor a second life. Under three millimetres never can. Two products that look identical on the surface can differ entirely on this point, and it changes what the floor is actually worth over twenty years.
Whatever goes down, a concrete slab needs a moisture test first. Slabs pass water vapour continuously even when they read completely dry to the touch, and that vapour is what causes cupping, adhesive failure and finish problems months after a faultless installation.
Ask for the wear layer in millimetres and the moisture reading in writing. Any installer who will not give you both is asking you to take the expensive part on trust.