Solid
A single piece of wood through the full thickness.
When the floor has to last generations and take several sandings. It is the floor that gets handed down.
- Thickness: 19 a 22 mm
- Widths: up to 15 cm
- Sandings: five or more over its lifetime
A hotel, a tower or a store network. Solid, engineered and floating multilayer, UV-finished at our own plant and delivered in step with the site.
The three systems
Solid, engineered or floating.
There is no better floor: there is the one that fits. Underfloor heating, board width, the humidity of the place and how many times it will be sanded decide which.
Engineered
A layer of fine wood over a multilayer core.
When there is underfloor heating, variable humidity, or wide boards are wanted. The cross-laid core gives it stability that solid wood does not have.
- Thickness: 14 a 20 mm
- Wear layer: 3 a 6 mm
- Widths: up to 30 cm
- Underfloor heating: suitable
Floating multilayer
Engineered with a click joint, laid without glue.
When the site cannot stop. It is laid over the existing subfloor and walked on the same day.
- Thickness: 14 mm
- Installation: overlapping click joint
- On site: no adhesive, no waiting
Scale
Nineteen thousand square metres in one tower.
A large-area floor is not a small floor repeated. It has to be produced in batches with colour controlled between them — the defect that in a tower is visible from the corridor — the delivery coordinated with site progress, and laid without holding up the other trades.
We did exactly that at TGLT's Venice tower: nineteen thousand square metres of flooring, with a single point of coordination. The same approach applies to an entire hotel or to a store network that opens one at a time.
- Colour across batchesBatch control: the last board comes out like the first.
- Phased deliveryShipped according to site progress, not all at once.
- One point of contactProduction and installation answer to the same company.
Finish
The floor is finished at the plant.
A floor is finished twice: at the plant or on top of the site. It is not the same. We apply the UV finish on a line over twenty-five metres long: every board comes out cured, even and ready to install.
On site that means no smell, no waiting, and no sanding dust over a project that is already finished. It is laid and handed over.
- PrefinishedFinish cured at the plant, not on site.
- No acclimatisationThe board arrives stabilised and is laid.
- Even at scaleBoard number one thousand comes out like the first.
Wood species
The species decides.
Hardness, grain and colour change everything: what withstands a hotel lobby is not what looks best in a boutique. We work with domestic and imported woods, and the choice is made with the project in hand.
- Viraró
- Curupay
- Teka de Birmania
- Roble Americano
- Roble Europeo
- Nogal
- Guatambú
- Lapacho
Questions
What we always get asked.
What is the difference between engineered and floating flooring?
They are not comparable categories, and that is the most common confusion. «Engineered» describes how the board is made: a layer of fine wood over a multilayer core. «Floating» describes how it is laid: clicked together, without gluing to the subfloor. An engineered floor can be laid floating or glued, and there are floating floors that are not fine wood at all.
Engineered or solid? Which one is right?
Solid is a single piece of wood through the full thickness: it lasts generations and takes five or more sandings. Engineered has a cross-laid core that gives it stability, which is why it allows wider boards and tolerates variable humidity. If there is underfloor heating, or boards wider than fifteen centimetres are wanted, the answer is engineered.
Is it suitable for underfloor heating?
Engineered flooring is. Solid is not advisable: heat and humidity move it, because it lacks the cross-laid core that compensates for that tension.
What does it mean for a floor to be prefinished?
That the finish is applied at the plant and not on top of the site. We apply the UV finish on a line over twenty-five metres long: the board comes out cured and ready to install. On site that means no smell, no waiting and no sanding dust over a project that is already finished.
How long does a wood floor last?
A well-maintained solid floor lasts generations and can be sanded five times or more. An engineered one with a three-to-six-millimetre wear layer takes between two and four sandings. What defines its life is the thickness of the fine wood, not the brand.
Does the wood need to acclimatise before laying?
With our process, no. The board arrives stabilised from the plant and is laid. That is one of the reasons a prefinished floor does not hold up the site.
Which species suits a high-traffic space?
It depends on the use and the effect sought, but for heavy traffic hard species such as curupay, lapacho or oak are preferred. The choice is made with the project in hand: hardness, grain and colour change the result completely.
Next step
Two ways to start.
Have a detail that is only half resolved?
Send us the drawing, the section or a photo of the reference and we will tell you how it is produced: which profile, which joint and in what time frame. No commitment.
Send a detailIs the project already defined?
Tell us what you need, with drawings or with an idea of the scale. We reply with a proposal and a delivery date committed against your opening.
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