The range of thickness options starting as low as inch allow you to finesse transitions between different types of flooring at doorways and stairways that would be awkward or impossible with standard inch solid flooring.
Engineered hardwood flooring thickness.
An engineered wood floor which is being fitted over under floor heating is normally recommended to be a maximum of 15mm thick.
Whether or not you have under floor heating.
How long will an engineered wood floor last.
The thickness of the veneer and the core varies depending on the design and the manufacturer.
Engineered flooring is typically between 3 8 to 3 4 thick whereas solid hardwood is 1 2 to 3 4 thick.
Flooring 3 8 or 1 2 inch thick is usually.
There are three key elements that will affect your choice of thickness.
7 8 inch 22 23 mm the best and most common thickness of solid hardwood is 3 4 inch 19 mm.
Depending on the thickness of the veneer that tops the flooring the quality of flooring used and how well you maintain your floors engineered hardwood can last a lifetime.
You can also lay engineered flooring over any flat stable surface including ceramic tile sheet vinyl and existing wood floors.
The reason for this is that boards of this thickness will allow the heat to pass into the room more efficiently than a thicker board.
So how do you decide how thick your engineered flooring should be.
The thicker the board the more it costs but the longer it will last.
For engineered floors there are two components that make up the thickness the base layer or core and the veneer.
A thicker the veneer wears longer.