Engineered Hardwood Flooring

Hard wood flooring can change a room with style, exquisiteness and warmth. It is satisfying accomplishing a do it yourself project, not only for the one installing it, but for those able to experience the beauty of the finished product. Learn More Engineered wood flooring is a great alternative to solid hardwood flooring. Engineered flooring basically is a sandwich of finish wood and plywood. The finish wood-first layer of the floor tile, is what you see and walk on.
The plywood that distinguishes engineered wood flooring from solid hardwood. Each layer of the plywood runs perpendicular to its adjacent ply, giving dimensional strength to the sandwich, thus making engineered wood flooring tile eliminate the expansion or contraction issues of solid wood floor tile due to the heat and cold. This characteristic of the engineered wood floor brings the benefits that the engineered wood flooring stands up well to areas with light moisture--basements and bathrooms, which may easily damage the solid wood floor tiles.
Engineered wood flooring also has a wide the range of installation options. The thinner engineered wood floor tiles can be nailed down; the thicker engineer wood floor tiles can be installed as floating floors.
Floating floorsare the great boon to do-it-yourselfers--no heavy staplers to lug around, no sub-floor. If your existing floor is level and stable, you can install the floating floor right on top, which provide a lot ease and convenience to do-it-yourselfers. Hide