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Tuesday, June 1, 2021 Hosking Hardwood Flooring Home About Meet our newest Best Selling Click Lock Hardwood – The Woodstock Collection (formerly Northern Lights) October 12th, 2017 in Engineered Wood Flooring / Floating Wood Floors 2 Comments » By Crystal Hosking, Hosking Hardwood Flooring Throughout the years, we’ve seen quite a few versions of click locking hardwood floors come and go in the industry. There are the greats – Boen and Kahrs . These brands have been around for years and are known for their high quality products and superb locking systems. And then there are/were some not so greats (names omitted to protect the… guilty?). Anyways, we’re not here to promote a click lock turf war. We are here to shine a spotlight on the Woodstock Collection (formerly Northern Lights), the newest click locking hardwood collection to hit our website and currently the most popular amongst our shoppers. Let’s take a look at why: Woodstock Hardwood Flooring is a premium click lock engineered wood floor which is 100% made in Canada . It’s the perfect collection for those looking to add a high quality real wood product to their home and it’s even easy enough to install yourself if you want to go the DIY route. These click locking planks are a little over 5 IN. wide and boast lengths up to 84 IN. The collection features Red Oak and Maple wood species and includes 4 popular colors. You’ll find Red Oak Natural and Maple Natural for those who want a light and traditional appearance. Also included are warm brown tones, which are super popular in more casual settings. The best attribute of the Woodstock line of hardwood flooring has got to be the Valinge 5G click lock technology incorporated into the board construction. These boards are incredibly easy to install. All you have to do is roll out an appropriate underlayment then measure, cut and click. There are no nails, staples or glue involved at all! It’s perfect if you’re looking to save money by installing yourself; or, if you’ve hired an installer to do the work, typically floating floors come with a lower cost per square foot to install because they are less labor intensive. Because of the superb click lock technology, the board in the Woodstock Collection can also be unclicked. This is helpful if ever in the future a board becomes damaged beyond repair. Simply unclick the boards that are still looking good, replace the damaged board and then reclick the good boards back into place. The Woodstock Collection comes with a 35 Year Residential Finish Warranty (and a 3 Year Light Commercial Finish Warranty — so it’s great for small offices too!), but if you find that you want to sand and refinish your floor anytime in the future, you can! This collection features a super thick 4mm wear layer on top (well above the industry average for engineered floors), which can be sanded and refinished 3 to 4 times over the lifetime of the floor. This collection is approved for installation over radiant heating systems as well as on, above or below grade, so there’s virtually nowhere in the home the Woodstock Collection can’t go! If you just have to see the Woodstock Collection for yourself, take a look at all the colors available here: the Woodstock Collection . You can browse the different stain colors and even order samples which can be shipped directly to your home. You may also be interested in: Planning Your Hardwood Purchase , All About Floating Wood Floors , How To Measure For Hardwood Flooring , The Importance of Hardwood and Laminate Samples Muskoka Flooring Is Now Vintage Flooring November 10th, 2016 in Engineered Wood Flooring / Floating Wood Floors / Hardwood Flooring Manufacturers / Solid Hardwood Flooring No Comments → By Crystal Hosking, Hosking Hardwood Flooring The Times They Are A-Changin’. Muskoka Hardwood Flooring has recently transitioned the brand over to Vintage Flooring. Colors and constructions are all the same, it’s just the names that have changed. We’ve updated our site at www.hoskinghardwood.com with the new terminology and stain names from Vintage Flooring. Vintage Flooring still offers their flagship 3/4 IN. solid line, the Pioneered Solid Collection (formally Gallery), in Hickory, Maple, Red Oak and Ash wood species. Their 9/16 IN. engineered collection is now the Crafted Engineered Collection (formally Architectural), offered in Red Oak and Maple wood species options. Northern Solid Sawn and Solid Sawn (3/4 IN. structured/engineered) Collections have retained their names and still offer a great 4mm wear layer with a huge variety of wood species/textures/etc. Vintage Flooring ULOC Click Collection – Maple Windsor Perhaps the best result of this transition has been the addition of the Vintage Flooring U-LOC Click Collection . The U-LOC Collection offers a range of stain colors in Maple, Red Oak and Hickory. It features a 7/16 IN. total thickness, a HDF core and can easily be floated over an underlayment . Click locking engineered flooring is perfect for homeowners looking to save money on installation with a DIY home project. In addition to transitioning brand name, collection names and stain color names over to Vintage Flooring, there also has been a change in the labels Vintage Flooring uses to distinguish between grades of their hardwood flooring. The Select & Better Grade (the clearest grade Vintage Flooring offers) will now be known as the Estate Grade . A step down from S&B/Estate was the Classic Grade, which is know known as the Select-V Grade . Select-V offers a little bit more color variation from board to board and could have more character marks including small, sound, filled knot holes. Character Grade will remain the same, offering unlimited color variation and natural character specific to the wood species. And finally, what used to be Muskoka’s Frontier Grade is now known as Heritage Grade in Vintage Flooring’s portfolio of products. The Heritage Grade is the lowest grade available and is only available based on accumulation. Heritage Grade includes mostly common grade boards with lots of color variation, unlimited large knots, pinholes, checking, worm holes and short board lengths. With the Heritage Grade, expect to factor in a larger waste percentage when ordering, which will allow you to be a bit more choosy with which boards you actually use in the floor. If you’re interested in the Heritage Grade products from Vintage Flooring, call our office at 508-643-0810 and we can check on current inventory levels at the mill. You may also be interested in: Muskoka UV Oil — Not Your Average Oiled Floor , The Evolution of Muskoka Flooring , The Canadian Way HydroCork: The newest in Luxury Vinyl Plank April 28th, 2016 in Cork Flooring / Luxury Vinyl Tile 9 Comments » By Crystal Hosking, Hosking Hardwood Flooring One of the newest additions to our site, Hosking Hardwood Flooring , is also one of the most durable, comfortable and beautiful Luxury Vinyl Plank options available on the market today. HydroCork is made by Wicanders, which is already a high ranking player in the cork industry. Wicanders has taken cork to a new level with HydroCork, by combining an agglomerate cork composite core with a durable top decorative layer . This new flooring hybrid therefore boasts all the comfort of cork flooring along with all the durability of traditional Luxury Vinyl Planks at a very affordable price. Talk about bang for your buck! Let’s take a look at all the benefits of HydroCork: Versatility with Installation HydroCork has a total thickness of 6mm. So, in addition to being able to install it over standard subfloors, such as plywood or concrete, it is also perfect for renovations (installation over existing floor covering types). It can easily be installed over flat tile or vinyl (carpet would need to be taken up). The thinner dimension will prevent crazy height differences when transitioning to other floors in your home or for clearance under doors. HydroCork is also approved for installati...