BENEFITS OF BERG & BERG ENGINEERED WOOD FLOORING

Wood is a natural material that can swell or shrink, depending on humidity.  For solid wood products made of one layer only, in particular, this can lead to deformations, splits or unpleasant open joints appearing.  Even with well proportioned expansion joints solid wood can expand beyond these joints with dramatic effects.  In order to avoid this, high-quality furniture, windows and engineered wood floorings are constructed of multiple solid layers, which are then glued together.

WELL BUILT

Products constructed from multiple layers are more elaborate and expensive to produce.  Technically they provide greater stability compared to solid wood.  Thanks to its design, Berg & Berg engineered flooring is particularly stable and is therefore able to be floated (laid on an underlay without fixing), used over underfloor heating and even fitted in kitchen areas. 

Being made of real wood there will always be movement depending upon the conditions at any particular time.  It is critical that every floor installed has an adequate expansion gap to allow for this. 

A CENTRAL DIFFERENCE

The use of a high-quality middle layer is of particular importance when it comes to three-layer engineered flooring.  Berg & Berg use exclusively slow-grown North Swedish pine or spruce.  Annual rings that are situated in close proximity and stand upright ensure the highest degree of dimensional stability: a central difference in comparison to many other three-layer products which use chipboard, HDF or less-stable woods as a middle layer.

SIMPLY SECURE

Berg & Berg has developed a patented connection that makes installation particularly easy while at the same time absolutely secure: Svedloc.  The result is a long-lasting floor ready to take the stress of everyday use.  For floating installations the additional application of glue into the groove gives the floor unmatched stability.  Svedloc is just as suitable for full-face glue-down installation.

It is important that any hard floor is laid on a smooth surface to ensure that there is minimum movement in the plank and stress put on the joint.

THE STRENGTH OF THE TOP LAYER

High-quality flooring like Berg & Berg has a long life span.  As a result, the top layer must be thick enough to handle a lot over the course of its life.  The thickness of Berg & Berg top layers is always at least 3.6mm.  This guarantees that you can sand off our floors completely, indeed multiple times (as with solid hardwood floors).  This is not possible for products with thinner surface layers or for veneer and laminate flooring.

THE LENGTH OF THE BOARDS

Longer boards (strips) are more beautiful but also more complicated and more expensive to manufacture.  Many manufacturers add short pieces on the ends of the floorboards.  Not Berg & Berg.  All boards, the ends as well, are at least 250mm long – and even over 400mm on average.  The staggered arrangement of the boards creates a homogenous overall picture. 

RIGHT ANGLES ON THE EDGES

The hardwood of the surface layer of Berg & Berg flooring is always milled at right angles on the edges.  This is the only way to ensure that no unsightly gaps form when the floor is sanded down.  That’s why Berg & Berg flooring can be refurbished again and again, which ensures a long lifespan.

Berg & Berg can be sanded without leaving a gap along the edge due to the square edge of the surface layer.

With standard Tongue and Groove Planks an unsightly gap appears when sanded.