Engineered Hardwood Flooring

Engineered hardwood flooring may seem to be similar to solid hardwood flooring, but there exist distinct differences between the two. Engineered means something that has been designed tactfully deviating from the natural course of actions. Practically, engineered hardwood flooring is the result of people's effort towards installing wooden floors made of plywood of basic types with top layer being the actual hardwood. Such design feature has its unique advantage over other traditional solid hardwoods. Depending upon manufacturers and your scope of requirement, plywood used for engineered hardwood flooring may consist of 2 to 10 plies and their cost and other maintenance activities may vary accordingly. Though you can purchase plywood consisting of up to even 10 layers for an engineered floor, but in general, 3-strip ply is commonly used for average traffic floors. One great reason why some people do not like engineered hardwood flooring is that they all look similar, though such belief is changing fast.

In earlier days, all engineered hardwoods used to be rotary peeled; but now with innovative ideas and advanced technologies, solid sawn engineered hardwoods have become a common affair replacing those rotary peeled hardwoods. Engineered hardwood flooring works enhanced with solid sawn has now started reflecting the very essence of usual 3/4" solid hardwoods making them more attractive and effective choice for contemporary floors. Various engineered hardwoods come from Brazilian Cherry, Heart Pine, Hevea, Hickory, Maple, Merbau, Oak, Santos Mahogany, Tigerwood, and Walnut, etc.

Besides selecting type of woods, you also need to identify functional features and the degree of wear layer for the selected hardwoods you would love to incorporate into your engineered hardwood flooring works. Few prominent functional features in this regard are French bleed, hand scraped, wide plank, and unfinished, etc. Advisable wear layers would be 2 mm, 3 mm, or 4 mm. Based upon your selection criteria while ordering for engineered hardwood flooring, manufacturers may offer you a warranty period ranging from 15 years to 25 years. It is recommended that you do not bother much about such company offerings, as life of your precious floor will largely depend upon how you are going to treat it post installation.

Engineered hardwood flooring has evolved as one of the most sought after flooring options now-a-days due to their cost effective disposition coupled with flexibility, durability, and easy maintainability. Over the years, few brand names have established themselves firmly as trusted and reliable flooring options, such as Burlington, Dreya, Greendale, and Vanier, etc.

Few acceptable coloring options available for your engineered hardwood flooring are tan, black, brown, natural, and red besides other customized textures. Engineered hardwoods are readily available in the market in different standard sizes, most common of them include 1/2"x5 3/8"x48", 9/16"x5-3 1/4-2 3/4"x random length, 9/16"x4 3/8"x48", 9/16"x5"x random length, 9/16"x5"x random length, etc. Engineered hardwood flooring will give you a way to re-configure your floors with innovative design works amidst bundle of colors, surface textures, cut and finish.