Engineered flooring is an extremely easy kind of floor to install. Versatile and suitable for most rooms around the house, it also comes in easy-to-fit installation mechanisms and offers a strong, popular wood type that grows in locations across the northern hemisphere, including around Europe.
Although beech is often used in solid wood flooring in the same way as oak, it is equally useful as an engineered floor and its sturdiness and attractive appearance make it a material that you may quickly decide is the ideal one for your home.
Engineered Beech Flooring
UK Flooring Direct has a small but select choice of engineered beech flooring from trusted manufacturers including Florence and Tarkett. Each of the products brings through the main aspects of beech flooring that may appeal, not least its clear, clean, pale look that offers a notable contrast in choice with some other woods, which instead offer many markings such as rings, lines and knots. It also contrasts with the darker shades offered by some other kinds of wood.
However, within the bounds of this clear, clean style, you will find plenty of aspects of the different available products to create some variation. For instance, you could settle on a 3 strip floor, which has three narrow slats in each strip that vary slightly in shade from each other, providing a notable pattern that overlaps with its neighbour on each side in the manner of bricks in a wall.
This provides an attractive contrast between darker and lighter areas, even if the overall effect is still a pale one. As a result, it is possible for the floor to look interesting and avoid being monotone without removing the contrast between the pale shade and the darker colours of other elements of the room, should this be your chosen style.
Beech Floors
The products are available with thicknesses of either 14 mm or 15 mm, which combines with the sturdiness of the wood to ensure that all of them come with 30-year warranties. The width of the planks may vary, from a narrower 139 mm to 207 mm for the 3 strip formation.
Another notable variation in style is that between smooth and bevelled edges. The former involves having flat-edged planks that create a smooth, almost seamless surface. Bevelled edges, on the other hand, have v-grooves that produce a pronounced join between planks, giving the floor greater definition for a dynamic, modern look.
There are two different methods of assembling engineered hardwood floors, these being the tongue and groove system and the click system. Each of these involves the different pieces being fitted together like pieces of a jigsaw, something that is quick and easy to do, does not require great expertise in laying floors and will not involve using any glue or other adhesives.
Such floors will need a flooring underlay, however, with a different type needed depending on whether the underfloor is made of concrete or wood.
If you want a strong, pale engineered hardwood floor for your home, the beech products provided by UK Flooring Direct may offer just what you are looking for.
