Engineered Hardwood Flooring Wear Layer

Yes they can at least once.

Engineered hardwood flooring wear layer.

While engineered hardwood does cost more it does have real wood. It gives an authentic touch to the wooden wear layer. The thickness of the wear layer on engineered hardwood flooring varies from product to product. The wear layer lets you know how many times you can sand and finish the flooring over its lifespan.

It ranges from 1mm to 8mm thick depending on the quality of the flooring. Thicker top layers can be sanded just like solid wood allowing you to erase deeper scratches and dents. Well considered beautiful hardwood styles combined with a durable engineered core and finished with a very resistant top layer that will withstand traffic from even the busiest of households. Engineered hardwood also gets damaged it is natural wood after all.

The layer of solid hardwood on engineered flooring is known as the wear layer. Their engineered flooring collection pergo max is a great example of what pergo do best. During refinishing an experienced hardwood floor sanding specialist will remove just 75mm to 1mm of the wear layer. The top layer of engineered flooring is wood so hardness depends on the species.

Engineered wood flooring looks very similar on the surface but it is made from a relatively thin layer of hardwood bonded over a substrate of high quality plywood. Engineered flooring is somewhat less expensive than solid hardwood but most types can be sanded and refinished only once since the surface hardwood layer is relatively thin. There is a large range of thickness available from 0 6mm to 4mm. Oak maple and hickory are naturally harder so they resist dents scratches and other signs of wear better than softer woods like birch cherry and walnut.

What makes purezawood s wear layer even more impressive is that we have the ability to offer anywhere from 3mm 6mm. Why is wear layer important for engineered hardwood. Hurst hardwoods is proud to offer our line of 5 8 prefinished engineered hardwood flooring. An engineered floor with a 3 millimeter top for instance can handle two refinishings.

Brazilian cherry walnut white oak maple and red oak. Complete with a 30 year warranty and an 11 coat aluminum oxide finish. This high end collection is a 5 wide by 5 8 thick with a 4mm wear layer that can be refinished 2 or 3 times. However instead of repairs or replacements most owners see the damage as making the flooring better.

Approximate lifespan 50 100 years or more lifespan depends on the quality of maintenance and the number of times the floor is sanded and refinished. Floors with a wear layer less than 2 millimeters thick can tolerate a light scuff sanding with a buffer. An engineered floor with a 4mm wear layer or thicker can be sanded and refinished approximately 3 to 5 times over the lifetime of the floor.