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When installing cellar flooring, most homeowners have traditionally avoided wood floors, believing that their cellar would have an excessive moisture level for hardwood flooring. Solid hardwood can buckle or crack when exposed to the higher levels of moisture and relative humidity commonly found in basements and cellars.
However, engineered floorboards are an excellent option for cellar flooring for any homeowner who prefers the warmth, beauty and elegance of hardwood floors. Engineered boards are made with multiple layers of material that are glued together and topped with a veneer of hardwood. The result is a board that’s more impervious to moisture and changes in humidity – and ideal for cellar flooring.
At Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, we offer wide plank engineered hardwood floors that can help create stunning cellar flooring. With planks as wide as 10″ and as long as 12′, your cellar floor will have far fewer seams, making the room feel more spacious. Wide plank floors reveal more of the personality of the wood and have an undeniable visual appeal that makes the floor the centerpiece of any room.
Carlisle engineered floors are made with a thicker top layer of hardwood, allowing our engineered boards to be refinished just as often as our solid hardwood boards. And with 2x to 3x more backing layers than standard engineered floorboards, Carlisle engineered floors are the most durable and stable product on the market.
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ExploreThe best floor for a basement or cellar is an individual choice between carpet, tile, laminate, cork, vinyl and hardwood. While each has certain benefits, only hardwood floors offer a perfect balance of timeless beauty, inviting warmth, excellent durability and ease of maintenance. When installing wood floors in a cellar or in any room below grade, engineered floorboards will perform better than solid hardwood. Because they're more resistant to moisture and higher levels of humidity, engineered floorboards are also ideal for laundry room flooring and for hardwood flooring in a bathroom.
Engineered wood is made by adhering multiple layers of a backing material like fiberboard or plywood to a top layer of hardwood. This multilayered construction provides a more stable core that is less impacted by changes in moisture and relative humidity. Manufactured hardwood floors are ideal for installation below grade, on concrete slabs, as a radiant heat wood floor or in any location where the relative humidity is between 30% and 55%.
Yes. Unfinished engineered flooring can be stained and finished just like solid hardwood.
Yes. A prefinished floor is one that is sanded, stained and sealed before it's delivered to your residence for installation. We accomplish those tasks in our manufacturing facility, allowing us to add extra sealant in some cases and to stain the sides of the board to prevent seasonal gapping. A prefinished floor also lets you avoid the mess of sawdust and the odor of stain and sealant that are present when a floor is finished after it's installed in your home.
When you choose cellar flooring from Carlisle, you’ll have a host of options for customizing your floor.
When designing your cellar flooring, you’ll have the choice of a variety of hardwood species at Carlisle. Each type of wood has its own personality with different hues, varying grain patterns and different levels of density. Cherry floors are prized for their lustrous red tones, while Hickory floors are known to be among the strongest floors available. Ash floors accept stain very easily, thanks to a lack of tannins. And White Maple is the perfect hardwood for anyone seeking more neutral colors.
We offer several proprietary wood grades that let you choose planks with more character and variation in grain, color, knots and mineral streaks, or floors that have more clarity and consistency in each plank.
Depending on the type of wood you choose, your Carlisle cellar flooring can be made with floor boards up to 20″ in width, though 8″ is the average for most Carlisle floors. Maintaining a consistent width throughout the room produces a more formal and consistent look, while varying the width adds visual appeal and gives the floor a more casual energy.
Carlisle craftsman can texture your cellar flooring to give new floorboards the look of planks that are generations or centuries old. Our texturing techniques can add the kind of saw marks and rough spots that are often seen on boards produced by early sawmills, and we can wear away the softer grains in a plank to produce the look of boards that have been lived on and walked on for generations.
If you choose to stain your floor, you’ll find a virtually unlimited range of color options at Carlisle. Our Custom Color match technology allows us to easily match the stain color to a paint chip, a bit of fabric or almost any item you bring or send to us.
Carlisle Wide Plank floors is a premier provider of cellar flooring of extraordinary quality. Our craftsmen have been fashioning exceptional wood floors for more than 50 years, and we continue to rely on time-honored processes to produce one-of-a-kind floors that are genuine masterpieces. Working with a small group of growers and sawyers who share our forest-to-floor ethic, we source our timber from the areas of the country where each species grows best, and we handcraft our floors one plank at a time to avoid the waste of mass production. Carlisle craftsman are true artists who are equally adept at crafting floors in fashion-forward styles and traditional rustic themes.
The quality of our floors is matched only by the quality of our customer service. Carlisle wide plank specialists are experts in every aspect of designing cellar flooring as well as floors for every other room in the house. Working closely with you from start to finish, we’ll help you decide on choice of wood, board width, color, finish, texture and pattern to produce a stunning surface that will be the perfect reflection of your sense of style.
