Armstrong Engineered Hardwood Wear Layer

This structure makes engineered wood flooring a great choice for basements over concrete subfloors and over radiant heating systems.

Armstrong engineered hardwood wear layer.

The boards become interlocking planks which fit together in a drop and lock method. Thicker top layers can be sanded just like solid wood allowing you to erase deeper scratches and dents. Oak maple and hickory are naturally harder so they resist dents scratches and other signs of wear better than softer woods like birch cherry and walnut. Staple glue or float.

Complete with a 30 year warranty and an 11 coat aluminum oxide finish. Performance plus a click locking engineered hardwood floor with an acrylic impregnated wear layer for superior resistance against wear and tear. This is how the thickness of a wear layer becomes important in selecting an engineered floor. Hurst hardwoods is proud to offer our line of 5 8 prefinished engineered hardwood flooring.

Wood top and backing with a strong stable core made from cross layers of pressed plywood. Brazilian cherry walnut white oak maple and red oak. An engineered floor with a 3 millimeter top for instance can handle two refinishings. An engineered floor with a very thin wear layer for example a 1mm thickness cannot be sanded and refinished at all over the lifetime of the floor which can lessen the floors lifespan quite a bit compared to styles that have thicker wear layers.

Engineered wood flooring can inflate thickness by adding more layers of plywood or particle board but still only offer a thin veneer of real wood on top. The difference is that instead of a photographic image of wood grain under a clear coat wear layer mass timber has actual hardwood on top. This high end collection is a 5 wide by 5 8 thick with a 4mm wear layer that can be refinished 2 or 3 times. Engineered wood flooring has a layered structure.

The thickness of the solid wood wear layer is crucial to the overall quality and longevity of your engineered flooring. Quality hardwood veneer wear layer. Engineered hardwood flooring installation can be done in three different ways. An industry leading manufacturer of innovative flooring products focusing on design performance and durability for the home and commercial applications.

Yes they can at least once. The dense core allows for rigid core floors to be significantly thinner than traditional hardwood floors with wpc floors being thicker than spc products. Floors with a wear layer less than 2 millimeters thick can tolerate a light scuff sanding with a buffer. A few of the armstrong stand out collections featuring the newest innovations in design include.