Solid overlay timber flooring is a product designed for applications where the beauty style and warmth of a solid timber floor is important but there are limitations on the area s sub floor or the application requires a floor thinner than traditional solid structural timber flooring.
Timber overlay flooring.
Full thickness is used when you need structural timber to span joists.
Boral overlay solid strip flooring has been designed for those who love the style and warmth of a solid timber floor but don t have the traditional bearers and joists subfloor structure.
Overlay flooring is available in sizes from 83 180 wide 14mm thick in varying timber species blackbutt blue gum spotted gum and grey ironbark.
Boral overlay is designed to be glued down directly over concrete 80mm width only existing timber plywood or particle board.
That s to say it shouldn t be used as a floor that goes straight over beams for example.
A flooring option that is constructed from boards that are thinner than standard 19mm boards with a consensus of around a maximum of 18mm thickness there s no reason why this type of flooring can t be used over existing wood floors or over concrete.
Overlay 13mm or full thickness 19mm.
Once laid it is sanded and polished similar to solid t g.
Overlay hardwood timber floor.
Timber flooring overlay is real wood in fact it is essentially traditional tongue and groove timber flooring only thinner approximately 12mm instead of 19mm.
Overlay is used where there is an existing substrate such as particle board plywood or concrete or even existing timber flooring.
Therefore this product is not structural and must be laid over an existing sub floor to which the product can be secret nailed and glued.
Because of this major feature most experts agree that overlay wood flooring is first and foremost defined by its thickness.