Hardwood Flooring – Engineered or Acrylic?
Before the advent of factory finished flooring, solid wood flooring was the popular choice for good flooring. Solid wood comes in the form of strips, planks or parquets. Remodeling with the addition of hardwood flooring – whatever type you choose – will add instant value to your home.
Engineered wood flooring is usually used in places where there are many changes in climatic conditions as engineered wood flooring is well suited to climatic changes and highly immune to variations in humidity and extreme temperatures.
Engineered wood is usually recommended for the flooring of basements where water is likely to trickle down. Another advantage of having engineered wood flooring is that since it has numerous layers of veneer, the topmost layer can be made of any wood that is strong yet is beautiful to look at and matches the décor of the room. You can use strong wood like oak in the layers beneath to make it sturdy and durable. Engineered wood flooring is available in strips and planks.
Acrylic impregnated wood floors are almost like prefinished floors, and the only difference is that they are manufactured to be more durable due to the filling up of the pores in the planks with coloring agents and acrylic. The flooring is anti scratch and is a good flooring to be used in places where there is a lot of activity and movement especially of furniture. Acrylic impregnated wood floors are also highly resistant to climatic changes.
Whatever your choice in flooring, DirectBuy has a great selection of many of the most popular choices available today – all at prices up to 50% less than retail. Hardwood floors add value to your home and bring a sense of style to your decor like nothing else.
