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We are so time and again asked which is the most appropriate oak flooring for your residence and which looks the best. www.jfjflooring.co.uk
While people hear about an engineered oak flooring their foremost reply can often be, ' its just not the real thing!' I even get customers believing that engineered oak is the same merchandise that the large super stores put on the market, which is not so as that is a laminate flooring. A high quality engineered oak flooring; such as we supply, has the equivalent qualities as a solid oak floor and in countless ways is even better.

This sounds like a sweeping statement from a business such as ours, who have been involved with solid oak flooring for the previous thirty years and longer, but non the less true.

Lets try and cover a a small number of of the reasons why:
A SOLID OAK timber board it a completely natural creation. We all recognize that wood moves with different climatic circumstances, such as moisture / humidity, damp or heat. Timber is a semi porous material that is affected by these different conditions. If oak flooring takes up moisture it will expand. The floor plank will always swell on the width of the plank and very little on its measurement lengthwise. Because of this it is always very important, when laying a solid oak floor, to allow and expansion gap around the outside border of the floor; between the wall and the flooring. If a gap is NOT produced when laying your floor, and the floor boards do swell, the flooring has no where to go and will then most often buckle up in the centre portion of the floor. The floor will then turn out to be springy and not lay level on top of the under surface on which its was originally laid.

Lets simply say your room was 5.0 metres wide and you decided to use 170 mm wide flooring to cover that width. That would mean that you would contain to lay 30 rows of boarding. If each board decided to increase by 2 mm in its individual width, it may well result in up to a sum of 60 mm of swelling. In each case it would be not possible to allow a gap of 30 mm each side of your room to permit for this. Normally the biggest expansion gap you would be able to achieve would be about 20 mm, which you would then cover with a trim or skirting. If your flooring were to be laid in a house that had recently been plastered and was still drying out, a 2 mm of expansion on your board would be very possible. If your sub floor was still drying out the position would be even worse with the flooring trapping the moisture under it and causing severe damage to the recently laid floor. In ALL cases the property should be dry and free from humidity after renovation work and be equal to the atmosphere that you would expect in normal, warm living conditions.

An ENGINEERED OAK timber board is a little bit different but is just as beautiful in appearance, given that you buy the correct type of material. It will wear just as long as a solid oak floor and is a much more forgiving and structurally stable floor.

The reason for the above is that a layer of solid oak is glued onto multi laminate plywood. The European Oak is the same quality as the oak used in the solid oak boards we supply, thus giving the same beauty with its natural grain and figuring.

The engineered flooring that we provide has a multi laminate plywood completed from 10 layers of a birch faced plywood 15 mm thick. Each layer is glued in opposite directions, so producing a plywood structure that is very stable and resists movement. We would like to make you conscious that many plywood's, that are used in the construction of engineered flooring provided by so many companies, is not as thick and has fewer layers. Less layers of ply will make it a less stable creation. With our engineered flooring a 6 mm layer of solid oak is then bonded/ glued onto the 10-layer plywood. The glues used today are very efficient and when the correct adhesives are used the boarding is often stronger the wood itself. The solid oak we utilize is a single peace of European oak between 6 and 7mm thick, forming a 190 mm wide board. Many companies will once more cut back, gluing a quantity of narrower widths together, giving the undesirable appearance of a multiple strip floor. It is very important that the layer of solid oak is between 6 and7 mm thick, as this is the layer that takes all the wear and tear of everyday life. The end result of our engineered flooring is a 22 mm thick board (15 mm multi laminate ply + 7 mm of Solid European Oak), 190 mm wide, in long lengths of 1900 mm and tongued and grooved all around the board.

This type of floor has more than a few benefits:-
1.A very stable merchandise that has much less movement then a solid oak floor.

2. The top layer of oak, on top of the plywood, is all you can see, giving the splendor that you would expect from a solid European oak floor.
3. A much more stable creation for under floor heating systems, which have become very widespread.

4. A product that will continue and wear just as long as a solid oak floor. If a solid European oak floor was constantly sanded down over the years. It could only be sanded down about 6 mm until you are on the tongue between the boards. Our engineered oak board has the same 6 to 7 mm thickness of wear.

5. The 22 mm thick board is far stronger than the solid oak board, not only because of its thickness, but also because of the multi laminate plywood. Plywood is about the strongest timber material you can obtain for this requirement.

6. Engineered oak flooring is a great deal more environmentally friendly. The plywood is prepared up of fast growing softwoods, which are plentiful, thus using up far less of our valued solid oak that has taken hundreds of years to grow.

7. A much faster floor to lay as you are using longer and wider boards, making it more cost effective.

8. Many of our clients will say that the flooring looks far better with a longer, wider board and that it does not move unlike solid oak flooring.
We at www.jfjflooring.co.uk are also aware of our natural environment. An engineered board will utilize up far less of our valuable Oak trees. The underside of the board being a softwood ply. These softwood timbers grow far quicker and are much more simply replanted and replaced.
John from JF Joinery has been involved in timber for all working his life. His family date back to 1853 and even back then were manufacturing hardwood joinery.
JF Joinery www.jfjoinery.co.uk are based in the South West of the Uk and pride themselves in being a family business and able to offer a friendly service manufacturing tailored joinery and solid and engineered flooring.
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Jfj flooring www.jfjflooring.co.uk and jf joinery www.jfjoinery.co.uk have been supply oak flooring and engineered oak flooring for nearly 30 years. We offer next day delivery free of charge on any quantity. Oil our floors are pre oiled and ready to lay. We supply the trade the public and the DIY fiitter with free addvice and pride ourselves in being a fmily business that care about your floors

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