The Benefits of Engineered Wood Flooring
As the most popular type of wood flooring, engineered wood floors have a lot of benefits which include:
- Durable: engineered flooring is constructed from several layers of wood, making them stronger and more hard-wearing.
- More Affordable: because it's not 100% solid wood, these are more budget-friendly but look just as great.
- Moisture Resistance: compared to other wood, engineered wood offers low-water resistance and is less prone to swelling so you can use it in bathrooms and kitchens with care.
- Suitable For Underfloor Heating: where real wood isn't, you can use underfloor heating with engineered flooring as it's temperature resistant and won't warp or shift.
- Simple Installation: engineered hardwood flooring offers an easy and simple click and locking system, so no adhesive needed.
For more information, check out our guide on What Is The Difference Between Solid and Engineered Wooden Flooring.
Engineered Wood Types
From lighter tones such as whites or greys to brighten up smaller rooms, to darker hues to create a dramatic statement. Or even natural engineered wood flooring found in the classic brown tones from lights, mediums to darks to create that traditional warm homely feel. You can find all of these colours in our types of engineered flooring below:
- Engineered oak flooring is known for it's distinctive straight and swirling grains and silvery texture. Found in lighter or darker shades, know that this popular engineered wood will darken in direct sunlight over time.
- Walnut engineered wood is a luxurious dark engineered timberwood flooring with knots, burrs, and unique grain patterns to make a statement in any room.
- Engineered ash wood flooring is a lighter coloured tone and offers bold, straight and open grains with distinctive markings and patterns.
- Beech engineered flooring has lightly speckled flecks within pale graining, and even have slight undertones of pink.
- Maple engineered wood is a light pale timber combined with darker soft graining on warmer tones.
To know which is the right type of engineered wood flooring for you, use our Room Visualiser Tool to see the floors in your home setting. You can also order up to three free samples.
Engineered Flooring Styles
From colours to engineered wood species, you can also find different styles and patterns to lay your engineered wooden floor in, called parquet wood flooring. With these engineered floors you can lay the wood in a distinct pattern to create a statement in any room of the house. You can find traditional herringbone flooring which is laid in a staggered zig-zag pattern or the more modern ‘V’ shaped chevron wood flooring.
What Rooms Can I Use Engineered Wood In?
Engineered wood flooring can be used in any room in the house, from living spaces such as lounges, bedrooms, dining areas and even high-traffic areas like hallways and stairs. They are even great for conservatories and basements as they are compatible with underfloor heating so can help to keep your home warm.
With low-water and moisture resistance, it can also be used as bathroom or kitchen engineered wood flooring, just make sure you take care and wipe away any spills. Because it's not fully waterproof, you have to be careful with how much moisture and humidity the engineered wood gets exposed to. For a great alternative with the same look wood LVT flooring offers full water resistance so is better suited to these rooms.
Make sure to read our Engineered Room Suitability Guide for more information.
Installing And Caring For Engineered Wood Flooring
When you've chosen the perfect luxury vinyl click floor for your home, the next step is installing. With an easy to lay click and lock method, you can find how to lay in our helpful Engineered Flooring Installation Guide. And maintaining your engineered wooden floor is easy, they are built to last and are durable floor types, simply sweeping and vacuuming regularly and wiping your floor with cleaner is all that's needed. For more, read our Enginnered Wood Maintenance Guide.
With all the different options to choose from it can be hard to find the right engineered wood. To help, take a look at our engineered wood flooring guides.
If you need any further help or advice, take a look at our Engineered Wood Flooring Guides; or don't hestiate to contact our flooring experts, we'd love to help!