THE SUNTUPS CONCEPT
Incorporating The 5 year humidity failure guarantee
- Same re-surface area as a solid. (Same lifespan as a solid)
One can only sand up till the top of the tongue anyway so there is no benefit of having solid timber from the tongue and below.
- 70% more stable as a solid
Am I better off buying a solid or a Suntups Super-Engineered™ wood floor. Above is a cross section of a piece of both solid and a Suntups Super-Engineered™wood floor. While a Suntups Super-Engineered™ only has the face above the tongue in the solid exotic wood and the thickness below is made up of multi-ply wood, the basic concept is the same. The Suntups Super-Engineered™
There are also other important factors to consider. A solid wood floor is usually less stable than an engineered wood floor. When I say less stable, I am referring to natural humidity changes from the dry season to the wet season and expansion & contraction related to these humidity changes. During the change of seasons you get climate changes in your home, which you absolutely will, wood flooring expands and contracts. With solid wood flooring, it generally expands and contracts a lot more than a Suntups Super-Engineered™wood floor, this can cause havoc or even failures with your flooring. The Suntups Super-Engineered™wood flooring is constructed to be dimensionally stable, in fact up to 70% more stable.
The Bottom line is that today the Suntups Super-Engineered™ floors are made with the same thickness re-surface area as a solid, so if the thickness below the tongue is a ply or solid wood it is still just thickness but with the ply you get stability and safety and 2/3rds less exotic wood is wasted on simply on thickness.
When comparing solid wood to a Suntups Super-Engineered™ wood floor, we tend to think about re-sanding & sealing the floor years down the road. This of course is directly related to the longevity of the flooring. Thinking about re-sanding the floor sometimes is the reason we may be misled into believing that the solid floor is better or will absolutely last longer. This is not so. Let's refer back to the pictures above. While there is no question that the solid wood floor is all exotic wood, take a look at where the nail is. When doing your resurfacing, maybe on the third or fourth resurfacing about 60 to 80 years from now, you are going to run into (literally) one of two things. It will be the nails with the solid wood floor, or the plywood core on the engineered floor. So, with that statement, now do you believe that the solid wood will really last longer? One can only sand up until the top of the tongue on both floors anyway so there is actually no benefit in the solid floor compared to a a Suntups Super-Engineered™ floor.
There are also other important factors to consider. A solid wood floor is usually less stable than an engineered wood floor. When I say less stable, I am referring to natural humidity changes from the dry season to the wet season and expansion & contraction related to these humidity changes. During the change of seasons you get climate changes in your home, which you absolutely will, wood flooring expands and contracts. With solid wood flooring, it generally expands and contracts a lot more than a Suntups Super-Engineered™wood floor, this can cause havoc or even failures with your flooring. The Suntups Super-Engineered™wood flooring is constructed to be dimensionally stable, in fact up to 70% more stable.
The Bottom line is that today the Suntups Super-Engineered™ floors are made with the same thickness re-surface area as a solid, so if the thickness below the tongue is a ply or solid wood it is still just thickness but with the ply you get stability and safety and 2/3rds less exotic wood is wasted on simply on thickness.
