Our view of Bruce Hardwood Floors is on the Good. Owned by Armstrong Industries, the company has seen it's market share dwindle over the years due to increased competition, and in the past lower quality control. This is not so in recent years the quality has improved greatly and it is once again it gaining momentem in the industry.
This is not to say all products are at the lower end of the quality scale. Many of Bruce's products are ideal for the average family lifestyle consumer, providing a price point target while offering traditional natural and stain colored hardwoods. A favorite among home builders as well for its consitency in quality and multiple stain choices, Bruce manufacturers a limited amount of the more trendy types of hardwood flooring consumers are after today.
Bruce products are more viewable than any other hardwood flooring products, shown in thousands of flooring showrooms across Canada and USA. While we give good to great rating some quality issues are barely noticeable for those seeking a functional floor while not expecting furniture type quality Bruce is top of the list.
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Anderson Flooring
Our view of Anderson Hardwood Floors has always been favorable. The company offers mostly engineered hardwoods in trendy darker stained colors and many high end hand scraped distressed lines in wider plank format up to seven inches wide. Main species line include Hickory, Maple, Red Oak, and some Pine hardwoods.
Anderson features cross-locked engineering and a choice of two world-class finishes. Real wood floors made of Maple, Oak, Beech, Elm and Pecan are pound for pound stronger than steel. The 5-ply cross-locked engineered construction is up to 100% harder than oak lumber flooring and will not buckle. This innovative construction technique makes the most out of every log while increasing stability and durability up to 100%.
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Mirage Hardwood Floors
Our view on Mirage Hardwood Floors has always been extremely favorable. If there's a Cadillac of hardwood flooring this company would be fighting for the top slot. One may wonder, why not a five star rating? Mirage produces some of the best milled hardwoods in the world, but what sets it back is the use of shorter material in their engineered and solid hardwood lines.
Granted, if you're not looking for the standard shorter lengths that run approximately 13 to 31 inches on many of their engineered lines, the overall appearances of their floors after installation is near perfection.
Numerous stain selections in both engineered and solid can be found including the fading white look popular in the 80's. Mirage hardwood floors are not supposed to be sold over the internet. It's a policy they prefer to keep intact to solidify a quality position benefiting their dealers. With the internet anything goes. If you look hard enough or ask...somebody will sell it you you. We know, we've been there.
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