Learn how you can prolong the life and beauty of your flooring

Finish – an engineered floor is protected by the finish applied at the factory. Finishes come in a variety of forms including the following:

• UV-cured – Factory finishes that are cured with Ultra Violet lights versus heat.
• Polyurethane – A clear, tough and durable finish that is applied as a wear layer.
• Acrylic-urethane – A slightly different chemical make up than Polyurethane with the same benefits.
• Hardwood – Advanced technology that allows the use of space-age hardwoods to increase the abrasion resistance of the wear layer.
• Aluminum Oxide – Added to the urethane finish for increased abrasion resistance of the wear layer, which is becoming extremely popular on the better grade wood floors.
• Acrylic Impregnated – Acrylic monomers are injected into the cell structure of the wood to give increased hardness and then finished with a wear layer over the wood.

Hardness – each wood species has a certain degree of hardness that makes it resistant to dents, scratches, etc. This hardness is measured by a Janka Test. The higher the score the harder the wood flooring. Here are a few examples of woods: