Whats the difference between Solid Wood flooring and Laminate Flooring?
Real wood flooring is available either in its natural solid state or in a manufactured or “engineered” form. Laminate flooring is a type of plastic flooring that has been described, wrongly, as “engineered” by retailers for quite some time. So it is little wonder that there is confusion with the buying public. Hopefully this article should go some way to redressing this confusion. Solid Wood Floors Available in various thicknesses, solid wood flooring is exactly what the name implies – solid. There is nothing added to the wood by any manufacturing process, e.g, extra layers or sandwiched layers, the timber is cut straight from the tree, plained and maybe treated or stained, and then sold. There are differences in the grain of the wood, and this is covered in another article. Where the buying public do get confused is with the so-called “engineered” real wood floors, so it is worth explaining the difference… Engineered Real Wood Flooring The term engineered refers to the fact that the
