What is the difference between laminate flooring and solid wood flooring?

Solid wood flooring has a better appearance and fewer harmful gas substances, but it is more expensive and not durable.

First, the classification of laminate flooring.

At present, there are two main categories of laminate flooring on the market: one is solid wood parquet; The other type is laminate flooring. These two types of laminate flooring have their own different characteristics and have different requirements in terms of use and maintenance.

Hardwood parquet has the advantages of beautiful and natural solid wood flooring, comfortable foot feeling and good thermal insulation performance; It also overcomes the shortcomings of solid wood flooring due to the shrinkage of the monomer and easy to warp cracks. Nowadays, in order to prevent the deterioration of the living environment, countries around the world generally attach importance to the protection of forest resources, and parquet can save rare wood resources compared with solid wood flooring. In addition, parquet is easy to install, and there is generally no need to tie the keel.

But the ground leveling is required.

Parquet can be divided into three categories: three-layer parquet, multi-layer parquet, and blockery.

The three-layer structure parquet is formed by staggered lamination of three layers of solid wood, and the surface layer is made of high-quality hardwood slats, and the commonly used tree species are ash, birch, beech, oak, maple, cherry, etc. The middle is a cork slat, and the bottom layer is a rotary cut veneer, arranged in a criss-cross pattern. Such a structural composition makes the three-layer parquet not only have the advantages of ordinary solid wood flooring, but also effectively adjust the internal stress between the woods, and improve the shortcomings of the wood with the large change of dry and humidity with the season.

The solid wood floor has a good foot feel, natural texture and color, and slightly worse hardness. And because it is natural, the texture and color are quite different, and the wooden keel needs to be played when paving, and the price is relatively high.

The high-laminate flooring has high hardness, good wear resistance, simple and convenient paving, and low price, but the foot feeling is slightly worse.

Parquet absorbs the advantages of both of the above, and the price is in between, but the hardness is the worst of the three.

Difference: The biggest difference between laminate flooring and solid wood flooring is its structure.

Laminate flooring is a composite structure with a high degree of wear resistance. Good moisture-proof performance;

The solid wood floor feels good and feels luxurious after paving, but it is often easy to deform after a long time.

Three kinds of flooring: choose the material before the material.

At present, solid wood flooring, solid wood plywood and laminate three kinds of flooring have a great trend, in the choice of these three floors, consumers still need to have a specific understanding of them. Let's talk about the difference between solid wood flooring and solid wood plywood.

From the perspective of sales, parquet consumption is a development trend in the future; The price of solid wood flooring has risen slightly this year, coupled with the decline in sales due to many reasons such as state-controlled deforestation and rising logs.

From the perspective of environmental protection, solid wood flooring is a pure natural forest, and decades of trees can be produced into solid wood flooring. The state has always restricted logging, so a large part of it relies on imports, and a lot of money has poured abroad, which is not a long-term trend for ecology and future development. The parquet is made by cutting the wood into thin slices and then pressing it according to the horizontal and vertical phases of the wood grain, which does not have high requirements for wood.

Compared with the installation, the installation of parquet is convenient and fast, the construction period is short, the cost is low, and it is more worry-free and labor-saving. The installation of solid wood flooring is more elaborate and cumbersome, due to the laying of wooden keel, the construction period is longer, the cost is higher, and some often have problems in mixed construction.

In terms of foot feel, of course, solid wood is more comfortable and stable, especially suitable for laying in the bedroom. The parquet feels a little worse, but now there are some 18mm thick boards, which are not much different from solid wood. Anxin has a solid wood plywood with up to 11 layers, which is quite comfortable on the foot.

The most worthy comparison is, of course, the price, the price of parquet is more reasonable, more suitable for ordinary people, especially young people. The price of solid wood flooring has risen a little this year, which is already high, and there are some annual maintenance costs, which should be selected under the condition of economic comfort.

As for the selection of laminate flooring, it is necessary to distinguish from the following aspects: first, whether the fireproof and anti-wear surface layer is uniform and flawless; second, whether the wood grain of the veneer layer is realistic and clear, and whether it is tightly pressed with the substrate; The third is whether the substrate material is fine and solid. It is recommended to buy branded laminate.