Business, Home Improvement Engineered Hardwood floating timber floors combine the qualities of real hardwood timber with a creative construction delivering a stable floor and making installation easy over many surfaces.
Timber Floor Installation Singapore can be laid onto any hard level surface such as concrete, chipboard, tiles or existing timber flooring.
What is great about Floating timber floors is that they are really built no differently than other engineered floor installation differing only when it comes to installation. Most floating floors can also be stapled or direct glued down over a wood or concrete subfloor. At Ideas flooring you can find different styles of Floating timber Floors: When it comes to appearance you can find hundreds of styles and colours available to match any homes décor other than colours you can also pick from a variety of wood species, both domestic and exotic.
The best engineered floating floors will have anywhere from 3-7 plywood like layers of thin sheets of wood, which are then cross layered and glued over each previous layer. The decorative timber surface, with a multi cross layered substrate gives them strength and dimensional stability.
Floating engineered boards very strong and incredibly stable due to the fact that they are less prone to expansion and contraction making the ideal for summer homes where the heat is turned lower during the off season when no one is there. They are also beneficial in areas of the country with more drastic humidity changes.
The reason behind this is that once the boards are connected, they become a single unit and when expansion and contraction happens, it happens as a whole minimizing gapping that you would see in a traditional installation. This quality makes floating timber floors a great addition to any Australian home where weather conditions may affect your floors.
Another major benefit of this type of flooring is the ease with which a single board can be replaced should damage occur. If a board gets damaged later on, the flooring can be un-clicked back to where the damaged board is and easily removed and a new board inserted.
Up to 75% less face timber is used than in solid floors, resulting in a very environmentally friendly finish. Floating floors are ideal for areas where height is a restriction. At Ideas Floorig you can find a wide range of engineered flooring types that can be installed as floating timber floors allowing you to enjoy your new floor quickly and for longer.
Hardwood floors, their types and Laminated floors
Home Improvement Flooring is one of the important aspects in building construction and innumerable options of flooring techniques are available today. One such flooring technique is the hardwood flooring; where the floor structure, built above the sub-floor or the base-floor(which is mostly concreted) is made of planks of hardwood i.e wood of deciduous trees like Oak.
Types of Hardwood floors
There are basically two types of hardwood floors.
A) Solid wood floors
B) Floors of Engineered wood
Solid wood floor: They consist of wooden planks milled from a single piece of timber that is air dried before sawing. They have a thicker surface and can be finished more number of times than an engineered wood. Many houses in the European countries and Canada have the original solid wood floor that was laid several decades or a few centuries ago.
But solid wood has its own limitations also. Humidity is a major factor posing danger to solid wood. Excessive humidity can cause “crowning”; an occurrence of “convex curving” or curving upwards of the surface. “Cupping” is another thing that happens wherein the surface has a “concave” or dished appearance, when the height of the plank along its longer edges is more than that of the center. “Gapping” occurs when there is excessive space between the planks.
Floors of Engineered wood: Floors of engineered wood are made by pressing two or more layers of wood together to form a plank. In most cases there are three layers. The top layer called “Lamella” is the wood visible when the flooring is done and adhered to the core. It is the face of the floor.
The “Core” is usually the layer or layers below the Lamella. It distinguishes one engineered wood floor from another, depending on the construction of the core. In Wood ply core construction several thin layers of wood are adhered together so that the floor is resistant to climatic changes, thus increasing stability. In the Finger core construction small pieces of wood (granular form), are spread in a perpendicular way to the top layer ( Lamella) of wood.
This layer becomes the middle layer if the wood is intended to be 3-ply. The lowermost layer (which is the third ply) is often plywood, arranged parallel to the lamella. In the Fiberboard construction, the layers below the topmost layer (the core), is usually made of dense fiberboards. This is relatively less stable , as exposure to moisture (either water or oil) or high humidity, makes the wood to lose its stiffness( form).
Another method of flooring using engineered wood, popular in some European countries, is where the top layer is made of hardwood, and the middle layer is laid perpendicular to the top layer by softwood, and a final supporting layer is given using the same wood that was used for the initial layer (lamella).
Laminate flooring should not be confused with engineered wood floors. In Laminate flooring, synthetic materials are fused together and the floor simulates wood (or sometimes stone) on the surface. The below lying layers (core) are usually melamin resin or fiberboards.
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