OUR TIMBER FLOORING
Engineered Timber Flooring
Why Is Engineered Oak Flooring In Such High Demand?
- Sustainability: With only 4mm or 6mm of oak utilised for your floor, compared to approximately 19mm for a solid profile, engineered flooring significantly reduces resource consumption, making it a more environmentally friendly option.
- Longevity: Moreover, contrary to the belief that solid floors last a lifetime, they often require replacement once sanded down to the tongue. A 6mm lamella offers the same amount of real oak above the tongue as a solid profile.
- Stability: The lamella bonded to a multilayer ply substrate enhances stability, allowing for larger board widths and lengths. While still susceptible to moisture changes, engineered flooring is less problematic compared to solid boards.
- Versatility: Oak flooring provides an ideal surface for coating and colouring, as it readily accepts various colours, textures, and styles. Often referred to as the perfect blank canvas, oak allows for the creation of bespoke timber floors tailored to your exact preferences.
Now that you’re convinced of the benefits of engineered oak, explore the range of options available to find the perfect fit for your space.
Products
15/4 X 190 X 1900 UNFINISHED EUROPEAN OAK ENGINEERED TIMBER
Overall Thickness – 15mm
Lamella Thickness – 4mm
Board Width – 190mm
Board Length – 1900mm (up to 25% nested lengths)
Profile – Tongue & Groove
Surface Texture – Lightly brushed
Edge – Microbevel 4 sides
Grade – Prime or Feature
15/4 X 220 X 2200 UNFINISHED EUROPEAN OAK ENGINEERED TIMBER
Overall Thickness – 15mm
Lamella Thickness – 4mm
Board Width – 220mm
Board Length – 2200mm (up to 25% nested lengths)
Profile – Tongue & Groove
Surface Texture – Lightly brushed
Edge – Microbevel 4 sides
Grade – Prime or Feature
15/4 X 220 X 2200 UNFINISHED EUROPEAN OAK ENGINEERED TIMBER - Mixed Band Sawn and Circular Sawn texture
Overall thickness: 15mm
Lamella Thickness: 4mm
Board width: 220mm
Board Length: 2200mm (up to 25% nested lengths)
Profile: Tongue & Groove
Surface texture: Mix Bandsawn and circular sawn
Edge: Microbevel 4 sides
Grade: Feature
20/6 X 220 X 2200 UNFINISHED EUROPEAN OAK ENGINEERED TIMBER
Overall Thickness – 20mm
Lamella Thickness – 6mm
Board Width – 220mm
Board Length – 2200mm (up to 25% nested lengths)
Profile – Tongue & Groove
Surface Texture – Lightly brushed
Edge – Microbevel 4 sides
Grade – Prime or Feature
uNDERSTANDING THE lINGO
Surface Texture
Light Brush
Heavy Brush
Bandsawn/Circular Sawn
Light Brush
Heavy Brush
Variable bANDSAWN
Grade
What is the best grade to choose? Prime, Country, Rustic, or Feature? Answer? All of the above!
Grade does not determine the quality of the timber floor but rather speaks to its appearance and the size and quantity of the knots present. Oak trees are a slow-growing hardwood, and when the tree is milled into logs, the knots you see in your flooring indicate where the branches grew out from the trunk. Prime grade timber has very few or minor knots as it’s taken from the tree’s centre. The cost is higher because you can only use a tiny portion of each tree for Prime grade.
At Bespoke, we work with 3 grades of flooring:
Feature
Prime
A clean grade of timber where there are a minimal number of smaller knots.
rustic
This is available in our variable bandsawn board. Rustic is similar to Feature, but with some larger knots and filled cracks.
Lamella Thickeness
The “Lamella” is the term for the layer of Oak on the ply substrate.
BOARD THICKNESS
Bespoke Timber provides high-grade engineered Oak flooring built to withstand the test of time – even in high traffic areas. This flooring solution is easy to install and can be custom-crafted to complement your colour scheme. The engineered boards themselves are constructed tough, and the finished product ranges from 14-20mm. This is similar to the solid wood alternative, which comes in at a top width of 6mm. The clever layering and the Oak top ensure that your Engineered Flooring is made to last. These floors will endure 4-5 sands across their lifespan – how many people do you know that have sanded their floors that many times?
INSTALLATION
Depending on the profile selected, our Engineered Timber Flooring can be installed as either a floating floor (3mm locking profile) or a full glue-down method (4 and 6mm tongue & groove profiles or 3mm locking profile). When you choose the thickness of your flooring you want to account for the desired acoustic impact and the installation method. Our 14mm product is the only timber that can be ‘floated’, whereas we recommend glueing all of our tongue and groove profiles to the subfloor.
Whatever you choose your subfloor will need to be well prepared with little height deviations. You installer will guide you through this and provide solutions if it needs a bit of work. Sound travels further on a slimmer install, so keep that in mind when selecting your Engineered Timber Flooring.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REDUCTION
Because Oak is slow-growing, we can reduce the amount we use by showcasing the real Oak on the top, thick wear layer – instead of creating a solid timber floor – half of which will never be seen. There are layers of faster-growing ply substrate underneath the Oak timber flooring, adding strength and durability to the top layer. This use of layers helps ensure the finished product is a far more sustainable option than solid timber flooring. At Bespoke Timber, we reduce our impact on our environment and we give the Oak a chance to grow.
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FINISH
You can finish your stairs, flooring or walls with any number of colours and quality coatings, for a durable and natural-looking finish which provides stunning results and lasting protection.
WOOD SPECIES
All of our engineered flooring is generally made from European Oak. It is great for displaying the natural variations in colour, pattern and for a variety of finish options, it’s hardwearing and versatile.
STRUCTURE
We use a multilayer ply on our engineered timber for maximum stability – and to enable wider planks to be used than traditional solid timber floors.
PROFILES
Your stair nosing and finishing trims complete the final look of your timber flooring, stairs or accessories. Each profile is synonymous with modern, contemporary or period finishes.
