More Engineered flooring advice please!!!

[dougalhouse]

Just spent the last week looking at engineered wood flooring and I can't believe how many varieties there are.

I've finally found a design I like and the planks have an overall thickness of 15mm with a 3.6mm wood veneer.

I want to fit half decent stuff and have budgeted on about £30 psm. Some of the flooring I've been looking at is thicker overall and the veneer is also thicker on some.

I was wondering what the professionals recommend fitting in terms of veneer thickness etc, cos 3.6mm seems a bit thin to me.

 

[WoodYouLike]

In what rooms, areas do you plan to install it and on what type of underfloor?
Most 3.6mm solid top layers on wood-engineered boards are suitable for most areas on most types of underfloor, as long as the underfloor is level.

 

[dougalhouse]

Hi, sorry for delay in replying.

Laying it in my lounge/diner on vinyl tiles.

There are so many types. 3.6 is good enough then - thanks for that.

One last thing - whats the best backing is it ply or the pine strips that run accross the length of the plank or does this not really matter?

 

[WoodYouLike]

Both are good, as long as you make sure the pine backing, especially the cross layer (90 degree angle on length) is properly done and doesn't have many 'empty' slots (this happens frequently with the cheaper products)

 

[dougalhouse]

Many thanks for your time.