Engineered wooden floors -prices?

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coolio

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I've checked in the key posts but I couldn't find a post to answer my query. We have marble throughout the house except bedrooms. We have underfloor heating. We want to fit timber floors in the beds. However, laminate flooring is too thin to butt up to the marble flush. We have price 20mm engineered flooring but it's very pricey €66 per sq./m. I was expecting €40 - 50 approx.

Is anybody else in a similar situation? How much for engineered flooring? Thanks
Coolio
 
Coolio,

What type of engineered flooring are you looking at?
Walnut is generally more expensive than Oak etc.

gocall01
 
First off, what sort of underfloor heating to you have. Is it in your bedrooms?
 
Underfloor heating everywhere. Geothermal heating. Concrete floors upstairs. Marble tile flooring (hence the thick wooden floor required).
 
Oh right, well you need to be sure you can lay wooden flooring on it. Wood is a natural insulator so it could actually inhibit your underfloor heating, hence the reason it is more suited with tiles. You would have to turn it up significantly, and as engineered timber is really the only suitable wooden floor you could use the manmade core can inhibit it more.

Also you can't run it tight against the marble, as your floor will need to expand and contract naturally due to the changes in temperature, which again will be increased due to the underfloor heating. So you will need a 12mm expansion joint around the whole floor.

I will come back to you on prices but for the thickness of floor you are looking for, its pretty much in line with the market average.
 
Wooden floors - time in room to adapt?

Can anyone advise on the length of time we should have Oak semi-engineered floors in the room with the heating turned on before we physically put them down?? Is a week sufficient or what about 2 or 3 weeks to allow the moisture to be absorbed? We also have underfloor heating.
 

This one has been answered a number of times in the past, try searching for those threads.
Leo
 
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