The most durable hard wood floor currently being offered on the market and suggested by home builders is solid hardwood flooring. Other alternatives also include engineered hardwood flooring.
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Oak is generally thought of as a durable flooring. It is the most common wood floor in North America. The Janka Hardness Scale puts white oak at 1360 and red oak at 1290. In comparison, hard maple is a little higher at 1450 and southern yellow pine at 870. The construction of the floor will have a great deal to do with how this floor will wear. The under part of the floor ideally should be made of plywood and not HDF or MDF. Assuming this, oak engineered flooring is a durable choice for most homes.
a soft floor usually has carpet and a hard floor has wood or other things that are hard.
Hard, or hardwood floor, is real wood cut into long narrow pieces. They commonly have a tongue and groove joint to connect them together on the sides.
Although wood is propably the most elegant for durability metal would be my choice.
Yes, it must be a glue down wood or a floating wood floor.