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What Is Engineered Wood Flooring?

"What exactly is engineered floor? The wood flooring market has become quite complicated recently, thanks to both new products which have been developed and also the range of wood species that have become accessible thanks to global trading. In a nutshell, engineered wood flooring is a man-made timber flooring item, which is made up by bonding layers of unique forests together and topping them off with a solid wood top layer. The end result of the clever development is a floor which looks like solid wood but has the advantage of being able to be installed in places where humidity and moisture changes would lead to a real problem to solid wood. So how can be engineered timber flooring created? Engineered wood flooring is made up of bonding a range of layers of ply or higher density fibreboard (HDF) to make a center plank, which effectively becomes the inside of a"sandwich" that is then topped with a solid wood lamella or top layer. These center boards are made by bonding