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<f53d0a90-4445-41a8-83d5-(E-Mail Removed)>, Leo
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>On Sep 22, 12:22*pm, "TheScullster" <p...@dropthespam.com> wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> Anyone looked at wood vs engineered wood?
>
>I'm not that impressed with the durability of the Kahrs engineered
>beech that we put in a few years ago. It comes finished, but if
>I had it to do again I'd varnish over it because the joins are
>obviously
>not sealed and it's quite sensitive to water. I also reckon that the
>overall strength (resistance to dings, etc) must be reduced by the
>fact that the backing is glued up from softwood.
>
We've recently moved into a house which I strongly suspect had
engineered wood floor in from new (15 years old), also a beech finish.
The matching house opposite (in an estate with hardly two houses alike)
has the exact same floor. I agree with Leo, the joins would have
benefited from varnishing and it is very susceptible to water, in fact
its nowhere near as hard wearing as I'd like or expected.
It looks pretty good after 15 years, and now we've learnt we're not
making it any worse, it looks to be have been professionally fitted and
they've made a very neat jobs of the edgings in particular.
I've recently decorated an upstairs bedroom which will become our
toddlers room, I used fairly cheap B&Q laminate as it'll probably get
trashed in a few short years but I was very impressed with some of the
floorings that B&Q are now doing, some of the real wood stuff looked
high quality and there was a big selection (B&Q Warehouse Nottingham).
The cheap laminate looked much better when laid than some much more
expensive stuff I used to floor a living room a couple of houses ago. I
wouldn't use Floors2Go or whatever they're called again - useless.
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Mike Buckley
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