What is the difference between solid flooring and composite flooring? Although they are wood floors, they all have their own advantages and disadvantages, so the owners may as well take advantage of the advantages and avoid the disadvantages when choosing. The floor functions required by different Spaces are not quite the same, so different kinds of wood floors can be placed in different Spaces, which is a better choice.
Hardwood floors, as the name suggests, are floors made of solid wood. Compared with other kinds of flooring, solid wood flooring has the advantages of environmental protection, health and so on, and also has the miracle effect of heating in winter and cooling in summer. Therefore in a variety of flooring, solid wood flooring has been popular with consumers. Even in today’s high solid wood flooring, solid wood flooring still has a large consumer group.
Composite floor usually we refer to the composite floor generally has four layers of structure, including wear-resistant layer, decorative layer, substrate layer and bottom layer.
The four layers have different functions: the wear-resistant layer mainly plays a protective role on the surface, making the floor more durable; Decorative layer is generally used to imitate the texture of solid wood, make the floor look more beautiful; Substrate layer is the main component of composite flooring; The most important function of the bottom layer is to prevent moisture.
Although there are essential differences in the production of raw materials, solid wood flooring and composite flooring are difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, which requires the difference between wood flooring and composite flooring from the appearance of the floor.
In terms of deformation, the main difference between the two is that solid wood flooring is made of natural wood raw materials, not processed, natural, natural and received the unique nature of wood, easy to arch, easy to deformation. And after processing of composite flooring generally does not appear this phenomenon.
Solid wood flooring is not very good in terms of wear resistance, and in composite flooring, the wear resistance of solid wood composite flooring is far from that of reinforced composite flooring. Laminate flooring has added some special ingredients, so it is far better than ordinary hardwood flooring in terms of wear resistance.
What’s the difference between hardwood flooring and laminate flooring
1. Environmental protection. Composite floor in the processing of the use of a large number of adhesives, how many contain harmful gases, especially for children, and solid wood floor because of formaldehyde release is almost zero, so it is more environmentally friendly for the human body. But because the raw materials of solid wood floor are wood, so in the aspect of resource environmental protection is not environmental protection.
2. Use comfort. Wood flooring is significantly superior to composite flooring, mainly due to the wood’s low thermal conductivity, allowing people to walk comfortably barefoot on it no matter what the season.
3. Beautiful. The surface layer of the diamond board is a layer of printed paper, once in the sun will fade, and good solid wood flooring is natural wood color, there is no problem in this respect.
4. Arch. Due to the production of raw materials, the floor will inevitably be deformed after damp, so there is a coefficient of wet and dry expansion rate in the national standard of the floor. But the solid wood floor reflects the dryness of the floor, and the composite floor is the bending strength of the path. Solid wood floor arch another reason is the degree of dryness of the keel, if the quality of the keel is not good seriously will affect the use of solid wood floor, so the arch of solid wood floor is not necessarily the reason for the floor, the choice of accessories is also very important. On the one hand, the arch of composite floor is the problem of floor substrate, on the other hand, it is caused by water accumulation during routine maintenance. If there are no human factors arching, it is the quality of the floor.
5. Maintenance. The maintenance of solid wood flooring is more bother, high-grade flooring, of course, needs careful care, and now some of the solid wood composite floor is more expensive than real wood flooring, maintenance of course, also need to spend more heart, laminate floor also need to maintain, but relatively easy, usually with no dripping mop mop can be.
