Hardwood

Walk through a Billings home in January and you will often hear it before you see it: the faint creak of hardwood boards that have contracted in the dry winter air, small gaps at the edges where tight summer joints have opened. It is not a sign of poor quality. It is solid hardwood doing…

Bozeman’s new-construction boom has created a flooring decision point for thousands of Gallatin Valley homeowners in the last three years. New homes in the Belgrade corridor, Bridger Canyon area, and Baxter Meadows subdivision typically land on slab-on-grade foundations with in-floor radiant heat — and that combination changes the LVP vs. engineered hardwood conversation in ways…