{"id":643,"date":"2012-09-28T18:30:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanfloor.com\/blog\/?p=643"},"modified":"2017-10-20T19:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T19:00:01","slug":"how-were-engineered-hardwood-floors-invented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/how-were-engineered-hardwood-floors-invented","title":{"rendered":"How Were Engineered Hardwood Floors Invented?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prior to the second world war most homes in America had solid hardwood flooring.\u00a0 Homes were built on raised wooden sub-floors which allowed for solid wood to be installed by nailing the planks into the sub-floor.<\/p>\n

When World War II ended in 1945 all the young vets were coming back home.\u00a0 They were getting married and starting families and so the building industry saw a spike in the demand for new homes.\u00a0 New homes needed to be built quickly and inexpensively.\u00a0 So as a result tract housing neighborhoods were developed and concrete slab foundations were developed as a new technology replacing raised wood sub-floors.<\/p>\n

This created a problem for the hardwood flooring industry because you could not put solid wood directly on concrete.\u00a0 So the need for new types of flooring grew in demand.\u00a0 More homes were installing linoleum (today known as vinyl) and wall-to-wall carpet.<\/p>\n

So the wood flooring industry which lost a tremendous amount of market share basically had to get together and come up with a hardwood floor that could be glued or floated directly on a concrete slab and be resistant to moisture… the Engineered Hardwood Floor was born.<\/p>\n

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Every Urbanfloor\u2122 hardwood floor is constructed with 8-Ply cross grain construction for optimum strength and durability.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prior to the second world war most homes in America had solid hardwood flooring.\u00a0 Homes were built on raised wooden sub-floors which allowed for solid wood to be installed by nailing the planks into the sub-floor. When World War II […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,77,23,1],"tags":[147,253,174,252,251,257,255,250,256,254],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educational","category-flooring-educational","category-products","category-uncategorized","tag-carpet","tag-concrete-slab","tag-engineered-hardwood","tag-floated","tag-glued-down","tag-hardwood-flooring-history","tag-linoleum","tag-solid-hardwood","tag-sub-floors","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}