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Unfinished engineered flooring greatly expands your possibilities for adding or replacing hardwood floors in your home. Engineered floors are designed for installation in places where solid wood flooring would normally crack or warp because of excess moisture or high humidity throughout the year. Unfinished engineered flooring is ideal for cellar flooring or laundry room flooring, for example, enabling you to add the beauty of hardwood floors to spaces you might not previously have considered. Unfinished engineered flooring is not recommended for location where relative humidity falls below 30% for any extended period of time.
At Carlisle Wide plank Floors, we offer unfinished engineered wood flooring in a wide range of hardwoods. Scroll down to learn more about the benefits of engineered floors, and how Carlisle unfinished engineered hardwood flooring leads the industry in stability and durability.
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ExploreUnfinished engineered flooring is a floor made with engineered wood that has not yet been sanded, stained or sealed. Engineered floors are made with multiple layers of material, including a top layer (or "wear layer") of hardwood and multiple backing layers that are glued together. The wear layer of an engineered floor may be made of any species such as White Oak, Red Oak, Hickory, Maple and other hardwoods or Pines.
Engineered floors are more resistant to higher levels of humidity – they can be installed in locations where hardwood floors would normally warp or crack. Engineered floors are often installed below grade, over concrete slab and on radiant heating systems.
Manufactured hardwood floors are the same as engineered flooring – they mean exactly the same thing. Laminate flooring is made by gluing a top layer – called the "design layer" – to a fiberboard backing layer. The design layer is imprinted with an image that can resemble anything – solid wood flooring, tile, cork or even fabric. Like unfinished engineered hardwood flooring, laminate surfaces are ideal in locations where humidity changes would cause solid wood flooring to warp, split, buckle or cup.
Absolutely. Unfinished engineered flooring can be installed with a wide variety of patterns. At Carlisle, we offer several options for engineered Herringbone flooring and can work with you to explore other patterns for your engineered floor.
Yes. Because the top layer of an engineered floor is made from solid hardwood, you can treat it just as you would treat a solid wood floor. Carlisle offers virtually unlimited options for stains, making it easy to install dark or light engineered wood flooring as you wish. Certain woods like White Oak and Red Oak will accept stains more easily than other woods. Hickory, for example, has a tight pore structure that doesn't absorb stain as easily, while Maple is difficult to stain evenly and without blotches.
Unfinished engineered hardwood flooring will arrive at your location ready to be installed and then sanded, stained and sealed on site. With prefinished engineered flooring, those tasks are accomplished before delivery. We sand, stain and seal the floorboards in the ideal conditions of our manufacturing facility, making it possible in some cases to apply stain to all sides of the board to mitigate seasonal gapping. Prefinished floors enable homeowners to avoid the mess of sanding and finishing a floor onsite. Prefinished wood floors also make installation faster and less expensive.
There are a lot of factors that help determine the value of a home, but the short answer is yes – new flooring does increase home value. Hardwood flooring is among the most popular flooring options for homebuyers, and new hardwood floors add to the appeal of any property.
Carlisle offers a lifetime structural warranty and a refinishing warranty on flooring and finishing products. You can view all the details of Carlisle's warranty here.
As you design your unfinished engineered wood flooring at Carlisle Wide plank Floors, you’ll have the choice of a wide range of hardwoods to use for the top layer.
For more than 50 years, Carlisle Wide Plank Floors has produced the finest solid wood floors in America. Today, we produce superior unfinished engineered flooring as well. Our engineered floors offer the most stable and durable core on the market today. Our engineered floorboards are made with up to 11 plies and are significantly thicker than competing products, enhancing the stability of our engineered floors. A thicker wear layer allows floors to be refinished just as often as solid hardwood floors. And our floorboards are available in widths up to 10″ and lengths up to 12′ – much wider and longer than the industry standards for unfinished engineered flooring.
In addition to superior flooring, you’ll find our customer service to be exceptional as well. Our design team will help you choose from a rich variety of types of wood, textures, colors and other options to create a one-of-a-kind masterpiece that will become a central design feature of your home.
