Unleash your inner designer with unfinished engineered wood flooring from Flooring365. Unlike most engineered wood flooring, our unfinished floors haven’t had any finish applied, leaving you with a blank canvas for your interior design. This type of flooring is often favoured by interior designers but also makes a great choice for anyone who wants a specific colour or finish.
With a wide range of unfinished engineered wood floors, we’re sure we can find the perfect foundation for your vision.
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Unlike some flooring companies, we do not limit or charge for samples as we believe this is a vital part of the process of finding your ideal flooring. That’s why we offer free unlimited samples, giving you the freedom to test as many different colours, styles, and finishes as you see fit.
To make use of our free sample service, you’ll want to find a few different floors to compare. Once you have found a few floors to your liking, you can add them to your basket by clicking ‘Order FREE Sample’. This will add them to your cart for you where you can proceed with the order completely free of charge. We even include free delivery, so there are no hidden surprises.
Here at Flooring365, we send all of our samples directly to your home via Royal Mail. You can usually expect to receive them within 2-3 days. However, you won’t need to sign for them, so don’t worry about being at home for the delivery.
Engineered wood flooring is a modern and innovative alternative to solid wood flooring. Made from multiple layers, our engineered wood flooring offers additional stability as well as a higher resistance to temperature and humidity changes.
When it comes to choosing an engineered wood floor, there is the choice of pre-finished or unfinished. Unfinished engineered wood flooring is simply the wood flooring untouched, without any sort of lacquer, oil, or wax applied. This means that a finish will need to be applied before or after installation for durability and protection. However, the freedom to choose any finish is what makes our unfinished floors so desirable. Offering the opportunity to match the flooring with other floors, furniture, dado rails, or banisters.
To finish your engineered wood flooring, you will first need to decide on a finish. This can be a daunting task for some, with so many finishes to choose from. However, it’s one of the most important steps to finding a flooring solution you will be happy with for years to come. Some of the most popular finishes include oil, lacquer, and wax.
Oiled finishes are great at protecting the deeper grains but will need replenishing every 6-12 months. When looking at oil finished you'll notice that you have the option of matt, satin, gloss, coloured, or invisible. Alternatively, if you’re looking for something super specific there are other options such as semi matt or satin matt.
Lacquered finishes are often favoured in rooms such as the kitchen, thanks to the surface layer it creates to help prevent damage from spillages. Again, these come in a wide range of different types including gloss, satin, silk, matt, invisible, as well as silk matt, semi-gloss, and more.
As flooring experts, we would always advise that you finish your unfinished flooring as this protects the wood from damage. However, if you love the look of your flooring already, you can get some great finishes that are unnoticeable such as invisible oil or invisible lacquer. These finishes have been specifically designed in a way that doesn’t disrupt the woods’ natural appearance.
Prefinished engineered wood flooring can be susceptible to scratches but will withstand daily use even in busy households. Unfinished engineered wood flooring, on the other hand, can be extremely susceptible to scratches. Therefore, it’s important that you take great care of your boards during acclimatisation, and at any point up until applying your finish.
Once your finish has been applied, all you need to do to maintain your flooring is keep up with regular sweeping and an occasional mop.
For more information on how to care for your engineered wood flooring, visit our maintenance centre.
No. Engineered wood flooring is not waterproof. Unfortunately, due to the composition of real wood, this will always be the case with wood flooring. Finishes such as lacquer can help improve the water resistance, but will never make your flooring 100% waterproof. However, this is worth keeping in mind with unfinished engineered wood flooring as this has no additional protection.
For further information on how to care for your engineered wood flooring, visit our engineered wood maintenance guide.
Engineered wood floors must be acclimatised for at least 48-72 hours before being installed. Otherwise, your floor could end up warping, expanding, or retracting due to temperature changes. For more information on how to acclimatise your flooring, visit our guide.
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. 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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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 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.
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