For flooring that consists of solid wood all the way through, this can be used on ground floors and above.
A moisture controlled environment is essential and we recommend all solid wood flooring should be nailed or glued down due to movement (shrinkage and expansion) that naturally occurs.
Some manufacturers can supply solid wood adhesives that can be used to stick down their flooring and ensure full warranties are given.
 

This type of floor usually has between 0.5mm and 4mm surface layer of solid timber. Floors with 4mm veneer can be sanded up to 5 times. The increased stability of engineered flooring comes from its construction. The staved pine or spruce core lies tangentially to the grain of the veneer and base layer, ensuring that expansion and contraction is kept to an absolute minimum. One of the advantages is that you can lay a floating floor directly onto concrete or timber subfloors without the need to nail down, and many are now self-lock joints.
Engineered flooring can be a little more economical when comparing against solid wood products, due to the lesser amount of raw material used.

Laminate flooring consists of components that are bonded together. A wear-resistant decorative surface made of resin-based melamine. This material is bonded to a moisture-resistant wood-based core. A balancing backing is bonded to the underside of the core. By using the existing technology found in counter tops and adding considerably more resins to the wear layer these materials become an ideal floor covering.
Since this resin-filled wear layer is so dense, it becomes extremely difficult to damage.

Product Articles

Here are various articles that may assist you in your choice of flooring, as well as maintenance once purchased.


Floors and Fitting

Alternative Flooring Fitting Guide


  Kahrs Installation Guide

Kahrs Installation Video

Quickstep Installation Guide

  Junckers Installation Guide

 Bruce Installation Guide

  Karndean Installation Guide


Underlays

  Tuplex Underlay Specifications

Cush n Wood Specification

  Durafit 500 Underlay Specification



Finishes