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Real wood floors will age and mature with your property. This means that over time they will mark and dent more easily than laminate, but this is part of the character of real wood floors and should not be viewed as a fault of the product. The shade of the wood surface will change with exposure to sunlight. Depending on the species, the wood will either lighten or darken with age. The shade variation will only go on to a certain level and then cease. Any unexposed surface areas will eventually catch up with the colour differences once exposed. Depending on the type of real wood floor chosen, it can be sanded and re-lacquered a number of times to prolong the life of the floor. At Stockbridge Flooring we can carry out this task for you.

Each type of flooring has its specific use and choosing one over the other should be driven by your lifestyle and needs. Solid wood should be fitted in a moisture-controlled environment. Solid wood (strip or plank effect) should be nailed down only and requires a wood sub floor. Solid wood can be glued to a variety of sub floor materials. Engineered wood flooring consists of a multi-plied, cross-stacked backing with a real wood veneer top. Engineered wood flooring can be used on grade, above and below grade. Engineered wood flooring is more dimensionally stable so it can be installed in areas where solid wood is not compatible due to moisture. Engineered wood (strip or plank effect) can be glued down over various sub floor. Some engineered woods (strip and plank) can be nailed down which requires a wood sub floor. Engineered wood can also be layed as a floating floor where the tongue and groove are glued together, but the floor is not anchored to the sub floor.

When gluing a real wood to the subfloor an expansion gap of 15mm towards the walls is sufficient. With floating floor installations, for every metre of installation width the flooring requires a distance to the wall of at least 5mm. Lengthwise, an expansion gap of 15mm is sufficient.

Real wood flooring can be installed on stairs, however it can be slippery. You can install our floating real wood flooring over linoleum if the linoleum remains sound and tightly glued to the original sub floor.

Real wood flooring is designed precisely for this kind of application. It requires an underlay with a DPM over the concrete floor. The floating floor system can go directly over that.