Engineered Wood Flooring

                                 

Engineered flooring involves glueing a top layer of noble hardwood on top of a stabilizing substrate.

There are different forms of engineered hardwood. Two-layer engineered generally refers to a top layer of hardwood glued to a plywood base. This can be as thin as three eights of an inch with a 1 mm top layer of Noble Hardwood up to 21 mm thick with a 6 mm top layer on a Baltic Birch plywood core. Another type of engineered floor would be a three layer. Typically, the engineered construction is a 3 mm top layer of Noble Hardwood and a 10 mm centre core of vertical grain cross block spruce, pine, or fur. The bottom layer a 2 mm balance layer of Birch. Additionally, a higher-end, more refined version would be symmetrical balanced three layer. In this case various species of wood may be used and the top layer of wood is balanced with the same species as the bottom. With the symmetrical balanced three layer, the centre core is a vertical cross block softwood. The glue used is either a hot melt glue, or a solvent in VOC free basic white glue which creates a waterproof bond of cellulose fibres.

We work with manufactures around the world that are able to produce engineered floors as wide as 500 mm up to 6 m in length.