Engineered Flooring Part Ten
The other bonus of hardwood flooring or bamboo flooring is that they are cheaper. This is because your engineered flooring has been processed and worked on in order to end up as it is today and thus you are paying [...]
Engineered Flooring Part Nine
That said, there are still reasons to opt for hardwood flooring or bamboo floors over engineered flooring and they do have some advantages. First of all, there is the fact that solid hardwood floors are made of thicker wood. This [...]
Engineered Flooring Part Seven
Gapping occurs when there is excess space between the individual planks because the room was just too wide for the width and number of planks but could not fit another in. At the same time real hardwood floors are also [...]
Engineered Flooring Part Four
Meanwhile the use of hardwood flooring and bamboo floors in North America is also being caught up by the use of engineered flooring. A ‘sub-type’ of engineered flooring is known as ‘acrylic impregnated wood flooring‘. This is a product that [...]
Engineered Flooring Part Six
For instance there are some serious limitations around solid hardwood floors. For instance solid hardwood floors cannot be used directly on top of concrete which can cause them to break and crack. Likewise it should not be installed below grade [...]
Engineered Flooring Part Three
A veneer floor meanwhile uses a very tiny thin surface layer which is on top of a core made from composite wood products such as high density fiberboard. The core meanwhile for engineered flooring is always going to be a [...]
Engineered Flooring Part Five
There are various differences between the two in general however which we will look at here. For instance engineered flooring tends to be pre-finished more usually than solid floors and are normally supplied with beveled edges. This then alters the [...]
Engineered Flooring Part Two
This is true in the case of engineered wood flooring and laminate flooring is usually considered a form of engineered flooring – though actually there is a subtle difference. Essentially engineered flooring is created by using two or more layers [...]
