What is Real Wood Engineered Board?

Engineered real wood boards are designed and manufactured to give dimensional stability thus greatly reduce the effects of seasonal expansion and contraction. Engineered real wood floors are user friendly to install and can be laid as a floating floor system to a suitable wood floor underlay over a prepared sub-floor and in some instances can be laid over an under-floor heating system, subject to the manufacturers recommendations. For commercial installations the boards can also be fully bonded to a prepared sub-base using a suitable wood floor adhesive. The board is generally made up of 3 main parts:

1. Hardwood surface layer (approx 3.6-6mm, products vary) coated with multi-layers of high quality finish (usually lacquer or Natural oil)
2. Middle or core layer (usually hardwood, or occasionally softwood, products vary)
3. Base veneer (usually plywood)

Engineered Board generally comes in two styles, 3-strip Parquet and 1-strip Plank, see below:

Most engineered boards, such as our Zamorra Range are laid as a floating floor onto a suitable underlay and cannot be used as a structural or load-bearing floor.
They are usually installed as a Tongue & Groove glue system although increasingly manufacturers are introducing Glue-less, Loc or Click products, such as the user friendly eKo-Loc 5G range

Engineered boards are hardwearing and depending on the product specifications may also be sanded and re-sealed up to 2 or 3 times if required, in the same way as a solid wood floor.

ekoWOOD have invested in and manage a total forest area of 300,000 acres to help guarantee supplies of hardwood flooring in the future and wherever possible purchase other hardwood supplies from managed and sustainable areas in USA, Europe, Australia & New Zealand.

ekoWOOD products have received the quality accreditation ISO 9001 : 2000 Cert No: CI/3360