Kitchen Wood Flooring

If you’re in search of wood flooring for your kitchen, it’s important that you take into consideration what a tough environment a kitchen can be when it comes to wood. Wood is a natural material, and reacts to changes in temperature and humidity by expanding and contracting. Extreme and rapid cases of expansion and contraction can cause havoc with wooden floors. Add to this, spills, grease and high traffic around your work station and you’ll start to see there are more than just good looks to take into account when you choose the wood flooring for your kitchen.

If you’re in search of wood flooring for your kitchen, it’s important that you take into consideration what a tough environment a kitchen can be when it comes to wood. Wood is a natural material, and reacts to changes in temperature and humidity by expanding and contracting. Extreme and rapid cases of expansion and contraction can cause havoc with wooden floors. Add to this, spills, grease and high traffic around your work station and you’ll start to see there are more than just good looks to take into account when you choose the wood flooring for your kitchen.

Undoubtedly, engineered wood flooring is more suitable for the kitchen environment than solid wood. Solid wood flooring is made up of planks of one single species of wood and nothing else. While solid wood flooring will remain perfectly stable in many rooms in the home, the kitchen is not one of them. The changes in temperature caused by ovens and hobs can cause solid wood flooring to buckle and warp due to expanding so much when the kitchen is in use and then cause gaps to develop when the kitchen temperature returns to normal.

Engineered wood flooring is a much more stable flooring option and far more suitable. It is more stable because it is a man-made construction, designed purely for maximum stability. It is made up of layers of different types of wood, which are bonded together and then topped with a solid wood top layer. Because of this top layer, it looks just like solid wood, but because of the construction of it’s under layer, engineered wood won’t expand and contract like solid wood, making it the ideal choice for your kitchen.

If you have any further questions regarding wood flooring for your kitchen or you are looking for an advice about the best flooring options for your home feel free to contact the ESB sales team. Contact us now to request your no hassle no obligation free samples or come down to our North London showroom for a closer look.

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