WPC interior flooring is a part of LeadWPC’s business, there are various type of indoor flooring on the market, the appearances look insignificant with many different wood textures, which are confusing many customers. So what on earth the difference between Hardwood flooring, WPC indoor flooring, and laminate flooring? Which one to choose? LeafWPC Daisy had spent a lot of time to learn and organized the differences, here we go to learn together!
Hardwood indoor flooring
Hardwood flooring is a kind of decoration flooring coverings, that made by natural dried and processed wood. Due to the Hardwoodindoor flooring surface onlytreat by painting, so the natural wood grain pattern and color can be shown, which can give customers a natural, soft, full of affinity feels, comfortable with barefoot, safety to use etc..
Hardwood flooring did not use any adhesives or glues etc. during the manufacturing process, it’s relatively environmental to use in the interior environment. In addition, noise insulation, humidity control, and noble gorgeous features are the advantages of hardwood flooring.
The disadvantage of solid wood flooring is obviously, first of all it is difficult to maintain. Hardwood flooring require very good installation condition, once the condition is out of flatness or rough to install, it will cause a series problems, If the indoor environment is too wet or dry, the flooring will be easy to arch, warp or deform and easy to make noise when walk on it. To keep the flooring glossy and new, it’s should be waxed and oiled often during the use. Otherwise the flooring will be old and bad looking soon.
Laminate indoor flooring
Laminate flooring, also called Laminated composite flooring, in view of the shortcomings of hardwood flooring is not moisture proof and not wear-resistant, many flooring companies have worked on a kind of composite flooring, which can overcome the shortcomings of hardwood flooring. However, laminate flooring is not made of solid wood.But composited by four artificial material layers. Namely wear layer, decorative layer, high-density substrate layer, balance ( moisture ) layer.
These four artificial materials enable laminate flooring overcome the shortcomings of solid wood flooring. The wear layer of laminate flooring can prevent the scratch damage from keys, screwdrivers etc., so that it can reduce the difficulty of maintenance. Andanti-moisturelayer can absorb moisture from the air, so it would not be deformed because of wet or dry condition.
But laminate flooring also have significant disadvantages, it’s not environmentally friendly and the barefoot feelings are not good as solid wood flooring. The four layer artificial material need lots of glues and adhesives to put together, which will cause continuouslyemission of formaldehyde to do harm to humen’s health during the use. And laminate flooring do not contain any solid wood, so the barefoot feeling of laminate flooring is not as comfortable as solid wood flooring.
WPC indoor flooring
Based on the environmental and healthy concept, LeadWPC is committed to research and development a new type of indoor flooring that barefoot feeling is cozy as solid wood flooring, and do not need any adhesives—WPC indoor flooring.
WPC indoor flooring is interlaced and thermal stressed from wear layer, grainy layer, co-extruded layer, hard layer and WPC substrate layer, Which is made up of wood powder, calcium powder and PVC resin.By this processing, the dimension stability is not susceptible to the damp-hot swelling and cold-dry shrinkage, which overcome this shortcoming of solid wood flooring to some extent, and preserves the natural wood grain of solid wood flooring and comfortable barefoot feeling. WPC indoor flooring have both advantages of dimension stability of laminate flooring and the aesthetics of solid wood flooring, and most important is environmental friendly for our health.
In terms of waterproofproperty, solid wood flooring waterproof property is not good as laminate flooring, due to the special material and the high density of WPC indoor flooring, the waterproof performance is much better than laminate flooring, even can be absolutely water-proof.
Each kind of indoor flooring have its own shortcomings, WPC indoor flooring is no exception. WPC indoor flooring price is much more expensive than laminate flooring, even more expensive than the solid wood flooring. Then the high technological requirements, complex structure make the quality vary in large differences, intrinsic quality can hardly be identified.