{"id":820,"date":"2013-02-17T03:17:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T03:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanfloor.com\/blog\/?p=820"},"modified":"2017-10-20T18:45:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T18:45:47","slug":"engineered-wood-flooring-and-its-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/engineered-wood-flooring-and-its-benefits","title":{"rendered":"Engineered Wood Flooring and its Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder about engineered hardwood? The fact is, it\u2019s actually real hardwood!\u00a0 There are many benefits of choosing an engineered product.\u00a0 To help you understand the basics, engineered hardwoods are made up of layers that are \u201cglued together in a cross-grain construction.\u201d It is stronger than a piece of solid wood and can be installed direct to concrete.\u00a0 The top layer of the hardwood \u201cprovides the most uniform color and the most resistance to seasonal expansion.\u201d If concerned about the environmental factors of your flooring, engineered hardwood has beneficial aspects when it comes to the Earth.\u00a0 It uses half as many trees as solid wood floors and takes less water and <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/url-25.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-853\" src=\"http:\/\/urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/url-25-300x198.jpeg\" alt=\"url-25\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a>energy to produce than other flooring options.<\/p>\n<p>If considering engineered wood flooring for your home, the main question you might ask is: What&#8217;s the advantage of using an Engineered wood floor over a Solid nail down floor? The answer is simple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEngineered hardwood floors can be installed in areas where there is slightly higher relative humidity levels. Engineered wood flooring being more stable is a great choice to use in summer homes where the heat is turned lower when no one is there. Because manufacturing engineered flooring does not waste valuable prized wood below its wear layer, purchasing engineered flooring also helps conserve our forests.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder about engineered hardwood? The fact is, it\u2019s actually real hardwood!\u00a0 There are many benefits of choosing an engineered product.\u00a0 To help you understand the basics, engineered hardwoods are made up of layers that are \u201cglued together in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,18,77,82],"tags":[546,544,535,542],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-conservation","category-environment","category-flooring-educational","category-green-products","tag-design","tag-energy-conservation","tag-environment","tag-flooring-educational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","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=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}