At Real Wood Floors we are committed to being good environmental stewards.  We believe we achieve environmental stewardship through intelligently designed flooring.  We start off by partnering with like-minded lumber suppliers who take care to procure hardwoods in a sustainable manner.  We then make our floors with a thick enough wear layer to withstand the years of abuse they take in a home environment.  By using a thick wear layer if the floor is scuffed or scratched it can be sanded and refinished to bring it back to its initial beauty.  We want to give you a floor that is going to last as long as your house is standing. 

By taking the hardwood lumber and cutting it into veneer we’re able to make that lumber go 4 times further than if we had made it into traditional ¾ solid flooring.  As you can see below one piece of 4/4 (1" thick) lumber will produce one piece of traditional solid 3/4" flooring.

However as you can see we take this one piece of 4/4 lumber and make 4 veneers or top layers. These 4 veneers make 4 pieces of flooring out of that same 1" thick piece of lumber. By cutting the veneer a thick 5mm our flooring has almost the same amount of sandable surface as a traditional solid wood floor but with added stability.

 

The backing of our flooring is made variety of hardwoods that are chosen both for their hardness and stability as well as their abundance.  We conserve our most precious hardwood commodities by attaining a higher yield from the veneer and combine them with plentiful woods that make the floor stable and durable.  This is how we achieve environmental stewardship through intelligently designed flooring.