An Overview of Laminate Flooring in Melbourne

An Overview of Laminate Flooring in Melbourne Laminate flooring in Melbourne is a hybrid floor covering made of particle board wood. It is considered as best of many flooring. The look given by laminate flooring is real hard wood flooring since it has a modernized tongue and groove style of joining boards. The top of this flooring behaves much like vinyl flooring which is completely waterproof if seamed tightly. Laminate flooring that resembles vinyl flooring is completely different as the materials used for making them differ from each other.

The laminate flooring which looks much like solid oak timber flooring in Melbourne is also erroneously called as wood flooring. Laminate can be called as wood in only two respects. First, laminate floor is made of pressed wood and the top of it looks like wood. The top of the laminate flooring is the accurate picture of clear wood with a durable layer.

Aggregated wood particles are subjected to high pressure to form sheets.

These sheets have an image of wood or stone layer on the top of the layer.

The top layer which is clear plastic sheet is the intermediate between delicate lower layers and exterior elements such as moisture, UV rays and scratching.

Laminate is installed as a floating floor, the boards are connected to each other and but not to the subfloors.