Real Wood Floors Manufacturing Process

The manufacturing process for Real Wood Floors begins in the forests of the Eastern and Midwestern United States. The finest quality hardwoods are selected and cut into lumber. The lumber is then properly dried to ensure stability in the finished product. Then the lumber is re-sawn into veneer that will be used as the top layer of the floor. We only use sawn-cut veneers which produce the look of a real solid floor but with the stability and functionality of an engineered floor.

The flooring is composed of a top layer of veneer and a backing that is made from Balitic Birch.  The Baltic Birch is processed into plywood which lends greater dimensional stability to the product than can be achieved in solid flooring.  This added stability allows the engineered flooring to be installed directly to concrete subfloors (slabs) and unlike solid flooring the product can be installed below grade in basements.

After the lumber is turned into veneer we sort it by size and then adhere it to the Baltic Birch.  The product, now called a blank, is then placed in a hydraulic press to ensure a good bond between the veneer and the plywood. After being pressed the blanks can now be taken to the molder to add the tongue and groove and the end matching (the tongue and groove on the ends of the boards).

As the finished flooring passes through the molder it is selected for grade and packaged accordingly.   It is now ready to be shipped to distributors across the nation.