Wooden flooring refers to flooring made of various types of wood, including those laid as part of a building structure or for aesthetic purposes. Floors made of grass or bamboo are also often categorized as wood flooring.

Hardwood Flooring

Hardwood floors are made from planks cut from a single piece of wood. Originally, hardwood floors were used as a structure in buildings where they were installed perpendicular to the building’s support beams (called joists or braces). However, in some areas it is becoming more common to use concrete to build floors, as well as plywood floors. Solid wood floors are still quite common, however, and have a thicker surface that can be sanded and polished many times. In New England, Eastern Canada, the United States, and Europe, there are often homes that still have the same solid wood floors that were used when they were first built.

Solid Wood Manufacturing

Solid wood flooring is made from a single piece of wood that is first dried or air-dried and then sawn. Depending on the desired appearance of the floor, the wood can be cut in flat, quarter, or rift cuts. The lumber can be cut to the desired size and delivered to the site for installation or delivered directly to the site after the finished product is completed at the factory. Moisture content is carefully controlled during manufacturing to avoid warping of the product during transportation and storage.

Solid wood flooring has its own characteristics and many have longitudinal grooves on the back to minimize warping. Most solid wood floors are 19mm thick and have tongue and groove ends for installation.

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Manufacturing Method
Rotary Cutting
In this process, the logs are boiled in water and then gradually cut from the outside of the log with a razor blade, and then flattened under high pressure. The wood flooring produced in this way has a grain similar to plywood, and the disadvantage is that the planks may bend and deform along their original shape, and care should be taken to select the cut surface of the finished product.

Flat Cutting

The process starts with boiling the logs in water, but then the boards are cut longitudinally without pressure to flatten them, so there is no plywood-like grain, and less attention is paid to the selection of the cut surface. [3]

Dry Sawing

This method does not boil hardwood logs, but rather keeps the wood at a low temperature and dries it slowly to remove moisture, and then cuts it into boards by longitudinal flat sawing. Since no water is used in the process, there is no problem with the cut surface as in the above two methods, but more wood is lost.

Plywood

Wood flooring is commonly used in interiors.
Plywood flooring consists of two or more layers of wood glued together to form a single board. Generally, the inner layers are made of cheaper wood and the outer layers are made of thinner, more valuable wood. The layers are vertically aligned and glued to each other to create a more stable plywood that can be installed on a variety of floors. Plywood flooring is the most common type of wood flooring in Europe, and is becoming more common in North America as well. [4]

Woodgrain wear floors and plastic floors are often confused with plywood floors: woodgrain wear floors are made of plastic and fiber materials such as Minolite with a woodgrain on the surface of the boards, while plastic (vinyl) floors are just made of plastic to look like wood planks.

All-wood flooring is made from multiple layers of wood planks; most plywood wood flooring belongs to this category; its material does not use rotary cut planks, polymerized wood, plastic.
Laminate flooring refers to the use of polymerized wood in the center section, covered with thin layers of wood chips.
Acrylic laminate flooring: a patented method of hardening wood chips by impregnating them with acrylic.