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Web Page Title or Product/Service Name: 9. Which is better, solid hardwood or an engineered hardwood floor
It is not a matter of one being better than the other. They are both excellent choices for the situations they were designed for. If you have a wooden subfloor, you use solid hardwood, which is designed to be nailed down. If you have a concrete subfloor, then you use an engineered floor, which is designed to be glued down or click-locked into place. Since you can not nail to concrete, you can not easily use solid hardwood over a concrete subfloor. In theory, you could always staple an engineered floor to a wooden subfloor, but there is no reason to do that. Engineered hardwood floors of a given quality level always are more expensive than solid hardwood of the same quality level. The reason is due to the more expensive equipment and manufacturing process required for engineered flooring. So if you install engineered hardwood over a wooden subfloor which you could nail solid hardwood to, you are essentially wasting about $1.00 per square foot. If you find engineered hardwood at a similar or lower price, you know you are getting a lower quality product.
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