Solid wooden floors

No other flooring offers the warmth, natural beauty, durability, practicality and value of wooden floors. If that’s not enough, on top of this, solid wood flooring is a healthy option for you, your family and it is healthy for the environment too.

These are usually 18 - 20mm thick of solid hardwood in a variety of species oak, maple, walnut etc - produced in random lengths and tongue and groove all round. Generally narrower strips are more stable. Up to 83mm is described as strip flooring and above 83mm as plank flooring.

Pre finished or pre lacquered saves considerable installing expense and inconvenience. The higher the selection the less colour variation and less knotting, however mixed grades are often requested so one can see the full character of the wood as was naturally grown, with the colour variations.

Solid Floors can be expected to last many lifetimes with appropriate care and attention.

Super Engineered Flooring

With technology advancing, engineered floors are becoming more accepted in the market and now very often requested above a solid floor. The reason for this is that the engineered boards also have a solid top of solid wood and from the tongue and below is plywood. This provides a huge amount of extra stability and even engineered floors can be sanded like a solid. It is the thickness of the solid to that determines the number of sandings one can do and this is the same for a solid.

Due to the increased stability engineered flooring can now be machined with a click lock system making installation much simpler however some traditionalists still want T&G (tongue & groove).

We have managed to source a video which details the difference between Super Engineered and Solid Hardwood flooring and encourage you to review this in assisting with your decision making. To access the video please click here

 (Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JvNftT-Hsw&feature=email)