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Many modern home owners who are looking to refinish their home floors and want to add something different to create contrast, default to wooden flooring. There many types of wooden flooring. Solid hard wood flooring is a solid piece of wood cut out of a tree, used for flooring. Polished hardwood floors are a classy touch to a living room or foyer, but because they are a solid chunk of wood, the flooring is susceptible to changes in humidity which can cause the wood to expand or shrink with the climate changes. As an alternative, engineered wood plank flooring was invented.

Engineered wood plank flooring is a collection of craftsmanship and technology. Very thin layers of wood are processed and layered in a ply board fashion to create a 1/4 to 3/4 inch thick plank that is then used for flooring. This way, your floor will not swell in humid weather or warp with the climate changes. However some types of thin pieces of engineered flooring cannot be refinished, but need to be completely redone in case of any damage. Another advantage to engineered flooring over solid hardwood flooring is that the planks can be laid directly over concrete.

Engineered flooring is made in two ways. One way manufacturers make engineered wood plank flooring is by cutting straight through a log of the tree and making thin slices which are then glued using a cross over method one on top of the other until the plank is thick enough to be used. Planks made using this method shows the true lines of the wood more, and resembles the look and feel of solid hardwood flooring but with the advantages of engineered floors.

Another method includes something called circular cutting, which is when an engineer will use a knife blade to peel off the layers of a log. This method contrasts with the first one in that the look is more grainy and not as clean looking as the first.

Engineered wood plank flooring is considered the green, environment friendly way to finish your floors.