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Engineered Wooden Flooring: Comparing To More Preferred Hard Flooring Selections

Considering buying engineered wooden flooring for your home? If not, you definitely should. Engineered wooden flooring is a little bit of everything: durable, attractive, and inexpensive. Check out the competing products before you buy engineered wood floors, or any flooring, though. Those competitors would be laminate wooden flooring, and solid wooden floors.

Aesthetics

Comparing the looks of engineered wooden flooring to solid wood floors is actually kind of silly. This is because, as far as the top layer goes, they’re the exact same thing. The visible layer of engineered wood flooring is nothing but a thin layer of solid wood. Laminate, however, can look quite different, depending on the brand. A laminate wood floor can go from being very obviously artificial, to forcing even an expert to use other methods of telling it apart from a solid or engineered wood floor. It’s fair to say that engineered wooden flooring would tie for best when it comes to initial looks.

Did You Hear That?

Believe it or not, you should consider the sound before you choose wooden flooring. Obviously, the most common thing anyone does with their floor is step on it, and a sound of some sort is created every time a foot hits the floor. Interestingly, you just might see the biggest variation between the three types, and sometimes various brands, in the sounds they make. Laminate wooden floors, for instance, can often be identified by a hollow sound. There are manufacturers that advertise their newer laminates as not having this issue. Your average solid wooden floor, on the other hand, doesn’t make much noise to speak of. Of course, that changes when it’s no longer brand new. After a few years, maybe even decades, solid wood floors will begin to make creaking sounds, something that laminate will likely never do. Engineered wooden floors might go one way or the other; some have a hollow sound, but most don’t. They’re not terribly likely to begin creaking, but it does happen. I’d have to say, unless the creaking really bothers you, enough that you don’t even want to think of the possibility, engineered wooden flooring comes in behind solid wooden floors in terms of sound quality.

Durability

With the exception of concrete, a solid wooden floor is about as durable as it gets. Even when damaged, it can generally be refinished. Yes, it is that simple, although it’s not hard for it to get pretty scratched up before you get around to it. You can also buff and refinish engineered wooden flooring, but not very many times. Depending on the brand and type, you may be able to sand it a few times, but that top layer is generally thin enough that it’s very limited. As such, like laminate, deep damage can quickly force you to replace boards to keep a quality look. Laminate, being nothing more than a resin covered picture, can’t be refinished.

The Price

The pricing of engineered wooden flooring can, like solid wooden floors, seem to fluctuate with the phase of the moon. This is because the price is going to be directly related to the availability of the lumber. As such, you can expect the prices to be a bit more firm than solid wooden floors, while fluctuating more than laminate. Generally speaking, though, engineered wooden flooring will fall somewhere in the middle, with a bias toward competing with the cheaper laminate.

Want to learn more about engineered wood flooring? Check out Wooden Flooring Info.

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