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Advise for selecting Engineered Wood for flooring

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.01 PM

Hello All, I am moving to my new house and looking for some advise on selection of Engineered Wood. I am considering either 1. To go to shops like B&Q, Wickes, UK Flooring Direct or another high street ones , get some advise and make an order and get them to install and fit at my place 2. Shop around myself, make a purchase according to my requirements, find a professional Flooring fitter on My Builder and get it installed and fit at my place I am inclined to believe that going for second option would be good considering I get to select from variety of options available across many online and offline shops and also tend to believe would be cost effective once I have quality Engineered Wood and find a professional fitter. Please can I request to give some advise and suggestions helping me selecting the Engineered Wood & related accessories like underlay and others please. My Requirements are 1. My house floor is concrete 2. I am looking Engineered Wood for Living Room & Hallway 3. Cost wise I am looking for mid to high luxury ones and looking for carpets in the range of £30 - £40 /sqm 4. I would need Engineered Wood for 26 sqm to 30sqm for Living Room & Hallway I need some advise & suggestions on the below please: 1. There are different type of Wood flooring with different thicknesses and material such as Oak . Considering I am looking for durable luxury ones which type ones are recommended, minimum thickness etc? 2. As I understand the underlays should be selected depending on the floor type , what type of underlays are recommended considering looking for engineered wood on concrete floor? 3. Apart from Regular shops, what are the recommended places to buy engineered wood and generally have genuine deals? 4. Are there any brands I can look for so that I can compare at different places for good deals? 5. Apart from underlay what other accessories would I need to purchase and what would be the general costs of these accessories? 6. Any other useful information please or anything else I need to consider or avoid? My house is in Reading and will be handed over to me in a weeks time, I have just started taking quotations, please feel free to send quotations as well if you can. Many Thanks Nani

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Anonymous user

Hi Nani There are a few things to think about when deciding a engineered floor. Firstly, where the wood comes from? Try and stay away from cheap Chinese products! Stick with European woods. Havwoods, Boen. and Kersaint Cobb to name afew(all can be found online). Engineered can either be a click system or tongue and grooved. Click systems usually start with 14mm thickness and are a floating floor so will need underlay. Tongue and grove commonly start with a 18mm thickness and I would recommend fully adhering to the floor with a appropriate wood floor adhesive(so no underlay). Both systems need a expansion gap around the perimeter so scotia/beading needs to cover this or skirtings taken off and fit new after. My opinion the later is a cleaner finish. The lamella(top hard wood layer) thickness vary from 2mm-6mm. This determines how many times it can be sanded down. The Finish of the boards come in two main category's oiled or lacquered so that's worth a look into. Door thresholds vary in price but I would recommend purchasing them with the flooring to match colour. I hope this has helped and if I can be of further assistant please feel free to contact me. Skane SC Flooring.co.uk

Answered10 March 2016