FAQs

There is a wide range of hard flooring surfaces available, but the best hard flooring is one that's suited to your individual needs:

Wood flooring has unparalleled beauty, whether you're looking at prefinished timbers or staining to match your unique style. Wood floors create a timeless look that can add value to your home.

Laminate flooring is a cost-effective and durable wood look. Quality laminate floors have increased fade, scratch and water resistance compared to many other flooring types.

Cork flooring and CorkWood is the best choice of flooring if you are looking for warm, comfortable and quiet floor in your home. Unlike traditional cork, selected ranges in our Cork and CorkWood flooring have a waterproof surface so that these floors can be installed in any room in your home, including kitchens and bathrooms.

Hybrid flooring is made with a vinyl surface and is an ideal hard floor to create a plank or tile look in wet areas, as the product is entirely waterproof.

Leather flooring is made with a 100% recycled leather surface. Leather flooring surfaces offer a unique look if you want to make a statement in your home or study.

Solid wood is just that – from top to bottom and end to end, each plank is one continuous piece of wood cut with a tongue-and-groove joint. Most Rimu and Matai floors in New Zealand are solids. Solid wood flooring tends to be more expensive because the entire plank is made from precious timber. Solid timber floors also have limitations on areas of where they can be installed in your home.  

By contrast, engineered wood flooring has a resandable layer of wood bonded to a strengthened core, increasing the product's stability while reducing its cost. Not only can we offer prefinished engineered hardwood flooring, but thanks to the toughened core layers, engineered floorings are less prone to warping, cupping and expansion than solid timbers, allowing a beautiful wood floor to be installed into more areas of your home.

The wear layer is the amount of resandable timber on a wooden floor. A thicker wear layer means you'll have more opportunities to resand and refinish your floor; a 6mm wear layer, for instance, will let you resand approximately 4-5 times, depending on how much you take off each time.

Laminate flooring is a synthetic product made by fusing a photographic layer onto a coreboard, and typically designed and laid to look like a wood floor. It's a cost-effective alternative made to replicate a natural wood floor, with the advantage of increased durability and fade resistance.

A floating floor is any floor that is not adhered or nailed down to the subfloor. This method of installation allows the flooring to expand and contract freely without putting undue stress on the product, ultimately preventing any gapping, warping or splitting of your floor. Also, our floating systems at Floorboards allow individual boards to be replaced if damage occurs down the line.

Yes - all natural products will exhibit some colour and shade variation. No two trees are exactly alike, meaning every floor will be unique.