Many people in the UK look at the price of solid wood flooring and decide not to buy it. But they want the look of wood, so they buy ‘laminates’. Laminates are made of wood chippings with a thin coating of an image of a wood floor on top. By contrast, solid wood flooring is just that; it consists of planks or boards made from solid wood, aged and treated. Then it is planed to a fine finish.
With real wood flooring you can have a variety of finishes. There is usually a choice of having the wood lacquered, or hand scraped or brushed and oiled. In any of these cases, you can repair the wood easily. You can get a repair kit from most good retailers if wood flooring to deal with the problem. Of course, you can get a variety of woods, such as oak parquet flooring and natural walnut.If the damage is really serious, a new board can be installed. However, that is not an easy do-it-yourself job.
With a laminated floor you don’t have the same choice. You get a pre-finished product and it looks like it. These panels don’t look too bad when new, but if they get damaged, or are subject to a lot of wear from children’s shoes and games, they can be very difficult to repair. Th reason is that part of the laminated top layer will break off, leaving an unsightly hole, showing the chippings below. You then have to change the whole board.
Therefore, although laminates are cheap to buy they are not necessarily cheap in the long run. This is why it is best to buy good quality solid wool flooring for your home.
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