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Engineered Hardwood Flooring

Engineered hardwood flooring is a very convenient and beautiful way to refurnish your home. Engineered hardwood at its core contains high or medium density fiberboard. The engineered hardwood flooring consists of several layers which help protect the hardwood. The several different layers allow the wood to expand and contract as well, when there are changes in temperature or moisture in the air. There are basically several thin ply layers, which are each glued to each other. While solid hardwood floors become affected and therefore damaged under such conditions, engineered hardwood floors adjust to the environment and therefore, protect your floors. Engineered hardwood floors are essential to cottage homes or in locations that are directly affected by the weather and the change in temperature or moisture. There are three different ways or methods that one can choose to install (learn more about hardwood installation) these engineered hardwood floors. One can either use the floating process, or the gluing, or nailing process. Although the gluing method produces much better results, the hardwood can also be stapled down, or installed by other methods. The floors can either be glued down with adhesive, nailed down with staples, or protected with a sheet of urethane foam underneath. They are very durable, and last for a very long time, approximately 30-40 years, on average. There are sliced cut hardwood floors, and rotary cut floors. The sliced cut is cut with a saw and gives the appearance of real wood with finer graining, whereas the rotary cut is peeled off and is more smooth in appearance.

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