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Smoked Engineered Wood Flooring Samples

Find Your Perfect Smoked Engineered Wood Flooring With Our Free Samples

Here at Flooring365, we offer unlimited free samples on all our engineered wood flooring, including our smoked engineered wood floors. As experts in the industry, we have found that this is the best method for finding the perfect match when it comes to your flooring. This is particularly important with smoked floors because the varying colours and grains can be dramatically different in smoked flooring, with some much lighter than others.

How To Order Your Free Smoked Engineered Wood Flooring Samples

To take advantage of our free unlimited samples, browse through our wide range of smoked oak engineered wood flooring until you find a few contenders. Remember, our samples are unlimited, so you can order as many as you need to, all at once. This way, you’ll have plenty of floors to compare. Once you have finished selecting, you can add them to your basket by selecting our ‘Order FREE Sample’ button. This will add them to your cart, where you can proceed completely free of charge.

Quick & Easy Delivery

All of our samples are sent via Royal Mail, with delivery included, so there are no hidden charges. You can usually expect them to arrive within 2-3 days, however, this may take a week depending on your location. Don't worry about being at home for them though as they will be posted through your letterbox for your convenience.

Smoked Engineered Wood Flooring FAQ's

What is Smoked Engineered Wood Flooring?

Engineered wood flooring is made up of multiple layers to create a durable and stable wood flooring solution. These layers can be referred to as the ‘wear layer, ‘core layer’, and ‘backing layer’. The wear layer is made from real solid wood, which is what makes engineered wood flooring so popular. Whereas the core layers are what make this flooring so durable, providing the much-needed resilience that solid wood floors lack. These core layers are usually made from plywood but can also be HDF (high density fibreboard). Then the backing layer provides additional support to these layers for added stability. 

Smoked engineered wood flooring refers to a specific colour and manufacturing process. This is when the flooring has been smoked or fumed to give it a rich and rustic appearance. However, modern innovations have meant that not every floor has been produced this way. Some smoked floors have been stained to give the same appearance, for a much lower manufacturing cost.

Does Engineered Wood Flooring Scratch Easily?

While engineered wood floors are known for their durability and resilience, even they're not immune to the occasional scratch. Fortunately, this shouldn’t be an issue providing they’re cared for correctly. However, if you have pets or children, you may want to consider a distressed or brushed finish where scratches will be less noticeable. Or, if that’s too rustic, you could also opt for a lacquered finish which will offer greater protection against scratches than oils or wax.

If you’re set on having a smoked floor and don’t want to choose a lacquered or distressed finish, then you’ll want to choose a thicker board. Thicker boards tend to have a thicker wear layer. This wear layer can always be sanded down and refinished in the future. The thicker the wear layer, the more times you will be able to re-sand and refinish your flooring.

For more information on how to refinish your smoked engineered wood flooring, visit our maintenance centre.

Is Engineered Wood Flooring Waterproof?

No, due to the nature of engineered wood flooring, it is not waterproof. Therefore, to avoid damaging your flooring, you should clean any spillages up quickly, or within 2-3 hours at least. The longer you allow puddles to sit, the more likely it is that warping, or discolouration could occur. Therefore, if you are looking for waterproof flooring, we highly suggest taking a look at our LVT range. These floors are 100% waterproof and ideal for bathrooms, wet rooms, or kitchens.

For more information on how to care for your engineered wood flooring, visit our engineered wood maintenance guide.

How Long Does Engineered Wood Flooring Need To Acclimatise?

For a successful installation, engineered wood flooring needs to be acclimatised for a minimum of 48-72 hours. For more information on how to properly acclimatise your flooring, visit our guide.

Engineered Wood Flooring Finishes & Treatments

Brushed

Brushed finishes offer a greater texture and more depth to the surface of the floor. To achieve this look, we brush the floor using steel wire wool to remove the thin upper layers during the manufacturing process. This leaves behind an enhanced grain and texture. The level of depth and texture varies, depending on the flooring type and level of brushing. Brushed finishes complement smoked floors particularly well, adding to the ‘worn’ feel for a truly rustic appearance.

Distressed

Our distressed smoked engineered wood flooring takes the rustic appearance one step further, with a purposeful ‘worn’ finish. Unlike most floor finishes which aim for a more consistent and perfected appearance, our distressed floors embrace dents and scratches. These enhanced ‘imperfections’ are what give our distressed floors a truly antique appearance that can complement even the most rustic interiors.

Lacquered

Lacquered finishes are often the go-to for most customers because they offer more protection and are available in a wide range of textures. This includes brushed or not brushed, matt, gloss, satin matt, and extra matt. Lacquered flooring is ideal for heavier traffic and offers a high level of protection. However, we still recommend cleaning any spillages as soon as possible to keep your flooring looking its best.

Oiled

Oils flow deep into the wood grain, enhancing the floor’s appearance and offering deep protection. However, unlike lacquered finishes, oiled flooring does not create a surface layer and therefore requires more care over spillages. We also advise that you reapply oils to your flooring yearly to keep them in good condition, but this does depend on the footfall and traffic within that particular room.

Engineered Wood Flooring Thickness

Board Thickness

If you plan on resanding and refinishing your flooring in the future then you may want to opt for thicker boards with a thicker veneer. This will allow you more opportunities to do so as only the veneer (aka the wear layer) can be sanded down. Thicker boards are also more hard wearing and provide a slightly improved sound reduction performance, making them ideal for upstairs apartments or bedrooms. As well as this, thicker boards are usually more suited to higher traffic areas, where they can withstand greater use. However, they are often more expensive to show for this, so ultimately it comes down to budget and personal preference.

Engineered Wood Flooring & Underfloor Heating

If you're using a water-based underfloor heating system, it's important that your flooring isn't too thick to prevent transfer of heat into the room. We recommend using flooring with a maximum board thickness of 15MM with 4/4.5MM Underfloor Heating Suitable Underlay.

Wear Layer

Wear layer refers to the top, aesthetic, surface layer of real wood, which gives the engineered flooring its look. Thicker wear layers, whilst usually more expensive, offer greater durability and the option to sand more frequently, meaning flooring can be refreshed more times before replacing.

Most engineered wood floors, regardless of the thickness of the wear layer, will provide years of use, maintaining their impressive appearance.

Sanding Guide

In most cases, sanding the top layer of engineered wood flooring will remove up to 1MM of surface, with a minimum of 1MM needed left for protection. As a rough guide, here’s the number of times a floor can be sanded, based on the initial wear layer thickness:

• 3mm: 1-2 times
• 4mm: 2-3 times
• 5mm: 3-4 times
• 6mm: 4-5 times

(Please note: Sanding times is a guide only, the number of times a floor can be sanded will vary on an individual basis.)

Engineered Wood Flooring Installation Methods

Tongue & Groove

Tongue and groove is the most traditional method for installing engineered wood flooring; compatible boards fit together and hold in place with glue. The glue means tongue and groove flooring is free of nails, making it visually appealing and safe to walk barefoot.

Floating Floor

You can install tongue and groove flooring onto a layer of underlay as a floating floor. Underlay has many benefits, such as providing sound dampening and protecting your flooring from moisture and temperature changes.

Glue Installation

If you have a suitable subfloor (flat and sturdy surface such as concrete with a damp-proof membrane), you can glue your flooring to it with a strong adhesive. Glued installation creates a very stable and sturdy floor that will not shift under the pressures of daily life.

Click Lok System

Click Lok flooring allows for easy DIY installations with a profiled edge and interlocking system that doesn't require any adhesive or nails. 

If you’re considering Click Lok it’s important to think about the underlying surface on which your new engineered flooring will be laid. Uneven surfaces make Click Lok much more difficult to fit and keep in place, which often means the need for levelling underlay.