Differences between wooden and laminate flooring

     If you are deciding between laminate and wooden flooring and would like to compare their advantages and disadvantages, this article could help you. Both types of flooring are suitable for rooms with a high frequency of active use, and both also look very good. Especially now, when the production technology of laminate flooring is at such a high level that the 3D effect of the laminate surface looks visually almost 100 percent like real wood.

So how do these floors differ?

Wooden flooring is a genuine natural material that, in the long run, nothing in a home can match. It never loses its splendour or style. And it never goes out of fashion either. The colour options for wooden floors are practically unlimited. They can be stained in various shades, varnished, oiled, waxed and so on. These floors are very comfortable, warm and soft to the touch. After many years of wear they can be sanded down and so regain a fresh look.

     Their drawbacks are above all unsuitability for damp spaces and a generally higher price, which wooden floors can, however, make up for with their long service life.

Laminate flooring has come a long way through technological innovation, and besides the cheapest and very plain-looking quality categories there are also many quality laminates that are almost indistinguishable from wooden floors. A few manufacturers even offer water-resistant laminate flooring suitable for bathrooms and very damp rooms.

     It is a great oversimplification to compare laminate flooring with wooden flooring in general, as there is now such a large number of different quality categories of laminate that some laminates can surpass a wooden floor not only in quality but often also many times over in price.

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