Engineered wood flooring is now accepted as the preferred option for wood floors. There are numerous reasons for this but the main ones are listed below:
Stability: will not twist, warp and cup like solid wood or leave gaps in winter when the central heating is on and then expand (even pushing walls out) during a humid summer.
Quick and Easy installation: there is normally no need to acclimatise engineered flooring unlike solid wood unless you have underfloor heating
Sustainability: we can manufacture between 3 to 4 times more wood flooring from the same tree and use faster growing trees for the plywood like birch and eucalyptus. On our wider wood floors we use the cut waste to finger joint a middle layer and a back layer to create a stable very wide (340mm) engineered oak floor using 100% oak
How many times have you heard the saying “Never buy Cheap” you just end up buying problems, at the end of the day you always get what you pay for.
We have tried to explain below the difference between the quality engineered flooring we manufacture compared to the “cheap” options of wood flooring available in the retail
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Why are Oiled and Hard Waxed floor finishes better for commercial flooring applications as well as the home, they are easy to repair and maintain and look more
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Oak Flooring is a natural product and as such it will not be uniform either in colour, texture or look. The grain will be different and colour variation will depend on how close the individual
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Comparison of Cold and Hot Press Methods for Manufacturing Strand Woven Bamboo Why buy our Strand Woven Bamboo Flooring
All the Strand Woven supplied by the Solid Wood Flooring Company is made using the hot press method as described below.
Moisture content: The cold press method is not as easy to control, usually the best
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Strand Woven Bamboo Technical Specification
The specification of the top quality strand woven bamboo supplied by The Solid Wood Flooring Company is set out below. Whilst Bamboo is technically a variety of grass there are also many varieties of Bamboo. We use only Mao Bamboo which is a variety that is the best for flooring due
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Trees take CO2 from the atmosphere, capture it and produce oxygen in return. Wood provides shelter, comfort and beauty in our homes, offices, schools and public places. It protects out boundaries, opens new horizons in print and safely carries our good around the globe.
For every tonne of CO2 a tree absorbs from the atmosphere nearly
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Wood Flooring Fitting and Installation Technical Terms ExplainedMany people are unfamiliar with terms used in a particular industry, this blog is intended to help explain these phrases in a simple way, please let us know if you have any comments on these. There are a few blogs with separate headings on different aspects of wood
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Wood Flooring Technical Explanation
Many people are unfamiliar with terms used in a particular industry, this blog is intended to help explain these phrases in a simple way, please let us know if you have any comments on these. There are a few blogs with separate headings on different aspects of wood flooring and fitting.
Timber, wood
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You should never put rugs or carpets on top of a wood floor where there is underfloor heating.
This is a disaster waiting to happen because the heat is trapped beneath the rug which will then create a “Hot Spot” under the rug. The consequences of this means that the temperature of the wood will increase
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