Engineered Flooring Or Hardwood. The core is 5 to 7 layers of plywood, crisscrossed and bonded together. Harris’s hardwood flooring is available in two styles with tongue & groove or engineered click.
Harris’s hardwood flooring is available in two styles with tongue & groove or engineered click. It’s perfect for high traffic areas, such as hallways and living rooms. Engineered wooden flooring is a two layered flooring type composed of a thin hardwood as a surface layer and a solid plywood core at the bottom.
Engineered hardwood is constructed from layers of plywood with a thin wood veneer skin on top with a thin wood layer on the bottom.
The answer is engineered hardwood. The engineered construction adds dimensional stability and strength, allowing the manufacture of longer and wider planks. Engineered flooring is somewhat less expensive than solid hardwood, but most types can be sanded and refinished only once since the surface hardwood layer is relatively thin. Your choice depends on how much you value the relative merits of each.