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Hardwood floors Vs. Engineered flooring?

I am building a new house, and I have two large dogs. The house is a $200k smaller home with very nice appliances, granite counter tops, etc. Anyways, I have two large dogs who have scratched up the hardwood(not terribly) in my condo, so I am thinking about putting in the engineered flooring. I have been to lumber wholesalers, and it isn’t really much cheaper than hardwood, but it is my understanding that it is much more durable. It seems to look and feel like hardwood, and I have heard that the engineered floors have come a long way, but I’m paranoid that it’s going to look cheap. Would putting in the engineered flooring be a mistake?

Engineered woods have their place but in comparison to real hard wood they don t come as close.
If fact if either flooring was and aluminum oxide finish , both are very hard to refinish so a real hard wood you can resand a bit more to be able to refinish them.
Aluminum Oxide is one of the toughest finishes in a pre finished hard wood.Not available in finished on site applications. You have to nice of home to put in a good quality laminate which will hold up to the dogs. Where the cheap laminates won t..
Get the hardwood and think maybe of getting a harder species with multiple coats or urethane if your doing finished on site.
Any questions you can e mail me through my avatar..GL

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