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    How Your Homes Environment Effects Your Hardwood Floors

    How your home environment can and will affect your hardwood floors- Having a regulated indoor temperature is of the utmost importance when caring for your hardwood floors.  Regulating your homes climate should be part of your everyday floor care and maintenance routine.  Many people do not realize how the heat, humidity and cold impact their hardwood floors; (specifically, a drastic incline or decline of temperature and/or humidity).  Even though hardwood flooring is made from a dead tree, in essence, it reacts to its climate as though it were “alive.”  When hot and humid, hardwood planks retain the humidity/moisture in the air, causing them to expand. When the humidity is low…