How can a person tell if the hardwood flooring in their home is solid, laminate or engineered?
If you have air vents in your floor, simply pull out one of the registers and look at the flooring. You should have a floor on top of a subfloor. If the floor on top is one solid piece almost an inch thick, then you have solid hardwood. If, however, the top floor looks like thin layers pressed together or just a thin board by itself, then you have either a laminate or engineered floor. If your air vents are located in the ceiling, you may not be able to tell. If your house is on a concrete slab and the hardwood is glued directly to the slab, the chances are good that it is either a laminate or engineered floor.
