Engineered
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Why Engineered Flooring? Engineered flooring can save you money without sacrificing quality. Thankfully there is substantially less need to sand your hardwood flooring than in days gone by. With the use of modern climate control systems, air conditioning, and a humidity system in the dry winter, your hardwood floors will be more stable throughout the life of the floor. Because Great-great Grandpa did not have climate control, his hardwood floors swelled in the summer and shrank in the winter. 
Every 20 years or so, Great-great Grandpa needed to sand, refinish, re-stain and
re-wax the hardwood floors. With today’s moderate use of these climate control systems, the biggest problem facing hardwood flooring is abrasion of the urethane finish. Depending upon kids, cats, and dogs, all that is usually needed is a simple “buff and recoat” process. The urethane is lightly roughed up, and then new coat of urethane is applied. The wood is never sanded, thus the need for solid flooring is not needed as it was in the past. Engineered floors generally are made of a much thinner layer of premium hardwood than in traditional hardwood floors, and placed over a less costly high-density core or plywood. Many engineered floors can be floated over concrete or stapled over existing hardwood. In general, they are more stable than solid hardwood. At FloorsForLess.com, we have a variety of engineered hardwoods from South American species to a hand-scrapped floor made from Oak, Maple and Walnut. |
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