What is the difference between solid, engineered, wood vaneers and laminate floors?
A solid wood floor is made from one piece of solid wood, this is a living product as is liable to move by expanding and contracting. An engineered board is a manufactured board made from two or three layers cross bonded at 90 degrees to each other, so are guaranteed to be stable with no movement likely to happen between the joints etc. A wood veneer is a thinner board usually about 7mm and again three layers cross-bonded to each other, but the veneer is only 0.4mm thick. So although real wood and natural looking, it cannot be sanded at all only re sealed. Laminate flooring. This is not wood at all, it is a plastic, a photograph of food laminated onto a MDF board, this is generally a cold product, boards do repeat, is difficult to repair, and is sensitive to moisture, laminate has a lot shorter life span than wood.
