Since 'modern' houses have concrete floors the real need to have solid floorboards no longer exists. (Although we do sometimes hear of people insisting on installing battens on this concrete base in order to secretly nail solid floorboards. An absolute waste of materials, time and money!)
In mainland Europe more and more manufacturers make/sell more Wood-Engineered boards than Solid boards: for the reason above but also to reduce the amount of solid wood (=trees) needed; environmental friendly.
The backing (cross-layers) of Wood-Engineered boards are made of pine/plywood/mdf or chipboard, materials either recycled, rest-products or grown in controlled purpose-build forests.
(We know these boards are also sometimes known as laminated floors, but in order to prevent confusion with Melamine Laminated -'plastic'- floors Wood You Like uses the better suitable Wood-Engineered term.)
Wood-Engineered flooring is now also widely available in the full-plank version, once installed there is absolutely no difference in look with a solid floor, specially when the long sides of the boards have a (micro)bevel.
The original 3-strip Wood-Engineered flooring is very suitable in smaller rooms (bedrooms) cause they make the room look wider/bigger, plus are economical priced.
There are areas in you home we strongly recommend Wood-Engineered floors over solid floors: kitchens, bathrooms, utility rooms and conservatories. In these areas there is more moist or rapid changes in temperature where the stability of Wood-Engineered floors comes in very handy.
Also, we recommend Wood-Engineered floors with underfloor heating, again because of the stability thanks to the way these boards are build-up.
Check our on-line shop for our wide range in Wood-Engineered 3-strip, full-plank or our "Duoplank" (load-bearing Wood-Engineered board) floors we can supply (and install in the East Kent area).
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