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Why Boen Engineered Instead Of Solid Hardwood Boards?

A Better Solution

Engineered boards are often perceived as a cheaper alternative to solid hardwood products, this is not necessarily the case!

Boen scientifically researched the concept of the engineered board to provide a better solution to wasteful; and often problematic solid hardwood boards.

The cross layered construction provides a very dimensionally stable product, in tests as much as 70% more stable than an equivalent solid hardwood board.

This has provided the solution to problems of gapping and swelling of solid wood floors on site.

Stability Of Multi-Layer Construction

Hardwood lives. It has to adapt its internal moisture content to the relative humidity of its environment. The volume of wood is constantly changing - it works in step with its surrounding environment. Solid wood expands if the relative humidity is high, and shrinks if the relative humidity is low or if the sub floor is damp. If the wood dries and becomes damp again, the joins will fail to return to their original form, as the woods flexibility constantly deteriorates.

Boen multi-layer hardwood flooring is engineered with a cross layer construction. A balanced construction consisting of a base layer, an insulating layer and a durable layer of hardwood serves to ensure a very stable product. Any expansion or contraction of the wood is taken up through the cross layer construction. The layers basically work against one another to create a very stable product.

Kinder To the Environment

Boen multi-layered hardwood flooring provides considerable savings in resources compared to solid hardwood flooring. The use of slow growing hardwood is limited to the top wear layer. The middle and bottom layers are constructed of faster growing spruce and pinewoods. There is no more emotive issue than the use of the worlds natural resources, the hardwood used under the tongue and groove of a solid hardwood floor is a waste of these resources. You can only ever sand down to this level.

Environmental Care, We Are Sowing More Than We Reap!

Jiffy international is a subsidiary within the Boen group. Jiffy produces peat pots and peak briquettes which are used to plant more than 100 million trees per year throughout the world.

Jiffy's products contribute to re-forestation 100 times greater than Boen's annual consumption of raw materials.

Recommended Over Under-floor Heating

Boen multi-layered hardwood floors are recommended over under-floor heating.

Although some solid hardwood products are deemed as suitable by manufacturers in conjunction with Underfloor heating, they will usually exhibit gapping between the boards once exposed to heat, and few will offer written recommendations.

Typical Gaps that appear in normal Flooring

The diagram above is a typical illustration of how solid hardwood flooring reacts to Underfloor heating and also changes in humidity levels. Note gaps appearing between boards as solid timber reacts to heat and fluctuating climatic conditions. These gaps will generally stay open as the woods flexibility deteriorates. A gapping floor is both unsightly and acts as a dirt trap. All BOEN'S engineered sports floors perform without the development of unsightly gaps. This is due to the combination of their engineered structure and BOEN'S unique Connex process where the tongue and grooved joints are milled after lacquering, rather than before, to produce a truly tight barely visible joint.