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What is "laminate" flooring?
I recently moved to a community where people throw around the term "laminate" flooring, describing installation as "snapping it together" edge to edge, and "floating" it on an underlayment.
In the garage of my house are some left-over boards of a type of flooring that is "laminateD" from multiple layers of lower-grade plywood, finished off with a veneer that looks like real wood also. It is joined edge-to-edge via ordinary tongue-and-groove design, but I don't think it would "snap" together. I think this may be what is known as "engineered wood" flooring. From my description of my flooring, what should it be called - Laminate? engineered wood? or something else?
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- boy boyLv 74 years agoFavorite Answer
engineered flooring is plywood with the desired type of finish as the top layer ...its a veneer but quite thick ..the finishes are mainly hardwood ...it is fixed by gluing the tongue and secret nailing it ..its main advantage is ...it has no graining so it does not bend or twist and most important it doles not CUP like solid hardwoods ...laminate flooring needs an underlay ..is not real wood ..fibrous with a veneer finish ..and you just lift and click into place ..its better fitted with skirtings removed ..but most are layed up to the skirtings and a cover mould to cover joint ...it must not be solid fixed as it expands and contracts with temperature ..hence the floor must float
