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Dining room engineered wood
Sample fitted estimates: a typical rectangular room, with underlay where needed, grippers and a door bar. Subfloor preparation is extra and checked at the measure. Removal of the old floor is not offered in this preview.
Illustrative swatch
Sample range
Illustrative swatch
Sample range
Illustrative swatch
Sample range
Harborough Herringbone Oak
Natural Herringbone
£48 / m² Sample price
1.08m² packs
- UV resistant
- Sustainable
Not sure which range is right for the room?
Book a free measureA dining room sits between a living room and a kitchen in how hard it gets used: chair legs scrape, glasses get knocked over, and a big table leg can dig into a soft pile if the feet are not protected. Hard-wearing carpets, laminate and engineered wood all work well here, provided chair-leg protectors do the rest of the job.
If the dining space opens straight off a kitchen, it is worth thinking about the floor as one continuous choice rather than two, so there is no trim strip running through a room you can see the whole of from the sofa.
Engineered Wood questions
What makes it "engineered" rather than solid wood?
Engineered wood has a real timber top layer bonded onto layers of plywood or board underneath. That construction copes far better with the temperature and humidity changes of a normal home than solid wood, while keeping a genuine wood surface you can see and feel.
Why is engineered wood sold by the pack?
Like LVT and laminate, engineered wood boards are boxed into fixed-size packs, so the pack-area rule rounds your floor area up to the next whole pack rather than pricing a continuous roll.
Can it be sanded and refinished later?
Most engineered boards can be lightly sanded and refinished once or twice over their life, depending on how thick the real-wood top layer is. That figure is shown in the specification table for each range.
Is it suitable for a kitchen?
It copes with normal kitchen life but is not fully waterproof, so standing water and heavy splashing are best avoided. For a wet-prone kitchen, LVT is usually the safer choice.
How long does fitting take?
Engineered wood is usually a little slower to fit than laminate because the boards are heavier and the room needs to acclimatise first. Darcy confirms timing and any acclimatisation period at the home measure.