When you are considering laying gleaming timber floors in your house or apartment, the first thing you will need to decide is the system of flooring you need to lay. The table below might help you with making decision on choosing right floors for your rooms.
Flooring System
Products
Advantages
Weakness
Price
Apartment?
Floating floors
Laminate floor
Durable; easy to take care
Cant be sanded in future
Cheaper
With required underlay.
Engineered floating floors
Real timber veneer; natural products
Hardness varies for different woods; Have to use more carefully
Varies for different woods
Bamboo Stand woven
Click System
Very hard; Green products
Less colors to choose from.
Not cheap; but more affordable than hardwood
Nail-down
floors
Strip floors
Laid directly on battens or plywood. Strong and preferred installation
Cant be done on concrete.
Usually not allowed to be used in apartment
Varies
No.
Maybe ok for groundfloor.
Bamboo
Relatively cheaper
Gluedown floors
Some timbers
Can be laid directly on concrete
Cost more on glue, labor, cleaning glue after installation
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