Our flooring provides the beauty of wood in a great variety of types, colors, and designs. Basically, there are three types of wood flooring: Hardwood, Laminate, and Engineered.
Which one is the right choice?
Hardwood flooring is basically that. Real wood cut from trees and laid on your floor. It is, of course, the most expensive - both in material cost and in hiring the expert workmen needed to install it.
So what is the difference between Toronto Flooring made of wood and flooring made of laminate. Or, for that matter, what is engineered flooring?
Hardwood flooring, being natural wood, may not be the best choice in a high-moisture environment. It can expand and contract.
Engineered flooring, contrary to what might be thought, is also real wood - but it is built up in layers. It is a thin sandwich of finished wood on top, pressed onto an unfinished layer of plywood. This gives it the natural beauty and genuineness of real wood on the seen layer, and the resilience of plywood on the unseen layer.
Engineered Toronto flooring is in the mid-price range, with hardwood being at the top, and laminate flooring being in the lowest price range.
Laminate flooring is basically a photograph of some natural or pleasing pattern, layered on top of a composite wood surface. It is durable and easy to install. It can be textured, although it may not come in as deep a texture as other types.
One of the main advantages of Toronto flooring’s laminates is easy installation. Laminate flooring is a “floating floor,” which means no nailing. Naturally, expert nailing is an art that you will pay for. You may attempt it yourself if you are a good wood craftsman, but bad nailing can ruin that expensive floor you are installing. So that’s the tradeoff. You can hire experts to install a real wood floor, or do-it-yourself with laminate flooring.
So what is a floating floor? Does this mean it’s less secure? Not at all. Floating floor panels are snapped or glued together, then set in the floor. Basically, it’s a jigsaw puzzle. The edges of the floor are securely fastened to the wall, holding the entire assembly in place. Gravity does the rest. Be assured these are very secure floors. One great advantage of this is that it is easy to replace a damaged area. Replacing a damaged area on a glued or nailed floor is not for the faint-of-heart, and usually requires the hiring of an expert. Of course, an expert homeowner could do it, but then, an expert homeowner already knows what’s in this article.
So which Toronto flooring is best for you? It all depends on what you want. With modern manufacturing methods, none of these flooring alternatives is wrong. They all have depth of texture and resilience.
If cost and ease-of-installation is the major factor, along with ease-of-repair, you may want laminate flooring. If you have a house that demands real wood, and feel the expense is justified, you can go with real hardwood. Or, you can take the middle road - manufactured flooring - which is a thin layer of finished wood on a base of resilient plywood.
The choice is yours.
Sunshiny
Hardwood Flooring Toronto specializes in various wood flooring products including hardwood flooring, laminate flooring, engineered flooring, and related accessories. For details visit http://www.sunshiny.ca/en
