Wear Layer Engineered Hardwood Flooring

By using the ideal 3 16 wear layer you now have the same wear layer as a solid wood floor.

Wear layer engineered hardwood flooring.

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. You can find what the wear layer thicknesses is for any particular engineered flooring style we offer in the specification details for that flooring within our website. Engineered flooring s wear layer can be as thin as 1mm and gets as thick as 5mm. The thicker the wear layer the more times it can be sanded and the longer the life span will be.

Wear layer is that surface on the wood that can be re sanded and refinished until it reaches the tongue and groove. All engineered hardwood flooring varies from product to product in the thickness of the wear layer. There are three ways that the wear layer is produced for engineered hard wood flooring. What most people fail to realize is that a quality piece of engineered hardwood can be refinished as many times as solid hardwood.

Much like vinyl or laminate planks engineered hardwood is made up of layers. The layer of solid hardwood on engineered flooring is known as the wear layer. Using simple division for common flooring thicknesses we can determine how many times the engineered hardwood can be refinished. The wear layer comes in several different thicknesses.

Examples of engineered flooring with the thickest wear layers. On the contrary engineered flooring made from sliced and rotary peeled material is only going to produce thinner veneer layers about 2 mm. What is wear layer. The 4mm wear layer is a thickness used with high quality engineered hardwood flooring.

Now your floor will last longer and it can be sanded multiple times if needed. The best engineered floors have at least a 2mm wear layer and 3mm thickness is most commonly found in high quality engineered products. The boards become interlocking planks which fit together in a drop and lock method. It ranges from 1mm to 8mm thick depending on the quality of the flooring.

The 4mm wear layer is able to be sanded and. How to find wear layer information on hosking hardwood flooring. Since their invention in the 1960s engineered wood floors have improved in appearance and performance accounting for 30 percent of all the wood flooring sold in america today. Vintage hardwood flooring solid sawn offers a sawn face wear layer of 4mm.

During refinishing an experienced hardwood floor sanding specialist will remove just 75mm to 1mm of the wear layer. Just like solid hardwood flooring you can sand and finish the flooring over its lifespan based on the thickness of the wear layer. The rotary peel method creates a thin layer and is characterized by a cathedral grain pattern. A very popular thickness for a high quality engineered hardwood floor is 4mm.

Underneath are more thin wood layers all glued together to make a plywood sandwich called engineered flooring.