Engineered wood flooring is a style of wood flooring which is designed to offer to advantages over standard wood flooring. Like real hardwood floors, engineered wood flooring uses real wood. The difference lies in what you can’t see.
How does Engineered Wood Differ From Wood Floors and Laminate Floors?
Engineered wood floor panels are designed in a fashion similar to a laminate floor. They are sometimes referred to as floating wood floors because they do not have to be installed using nails or adhesive. Each piece of engineered wood flooring has plywood backing which contains an opposing groove on each side. These grooves are interlocked in the same fashion as laminate floors do when installing. It is not necessary to use any type of adhesive or nails when installing these floors, but it is highly recommended that you do.
Engineered wood floors are less expensive than real wood floors because the real wood planks are significantly thicker than the engineered planks. Like real wood, an engineered wood floor can be sanded down to remove scratches and mars, but this can only be done 2-3 times over the lifetime of the floor. Amajor advantage that engineered wood floors do offer, however, is that they can be installed on concrete. Real wood floors must be installed over plywood floors.
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