Discover our European Oak Flooring range

Engineered wood is made up of a top veneer of solid hardwood and then an inner core comprised of layers of high-density wood. The construction of engineered timber makes it more stable than solid wood and better able to withstand moisture, which is perfect for humid conditions. As well as being strong, they’re also lightweight.

View Step on Flooring’s Engineered European Oak Flooring options below and make your dream home a reality.

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What makes oak flooring so special?

What makes engineered oak boards a better choice than solid timber oak is their high level of adaptability and overall. Your expectations on the wood design you can come to us for can be achieved in a stunning way allowing these wood floors to be fitted perfectly in a wide variety of rooms.
One advantage of using engineered boards over solid oak is its convenience during the construction process. The complex layers which make up an engineered timber flooring offer just enough strength and durability to make your floors less prone to warping, buckling and moisture damage compared to the solid timber type. Engineered oak floors can withstand decades of wear and tear making them the perfect choice to add to any commercial or residential space. You can even find timber oak cladding that is created using the same process making it super flexible and even able to handle curves. Oak flooring is also an incredibly cost-friendly and eco-friendly product.
Engineered oak is designed to be incredibly long-lasting. This type of wood flooring is intended to last longer than your lifespan, even with just a little bit of maintenance. Oak flooring is a type of dense hardwood, so it has incredible durability, making it the perfect option for high foot traffic in commercial or residential areas. It’s possible to achieve the right texture, look and feel of solid timber with the top hard coating.
Engineered oak flooring is composed of multiple different timber sources, all of which have been pressed and laminated together to produce full-size planks.
Oak flooring was developed to offer the sophisticated style of traditional hardwood available to homes with existing subfloors for a more economical price.
Now popular for its affordability and simple installation, pre-engineered oak flooring’s installation options include gluing, stapling, or floating; although the reliability of each installation method is similar, the appearance of each may differ slightly.
While engineered oak flooring can be refinished throughout its life, the board thickness is suggested to be at least 2-3 mm thick to prevent harming the integrity of the wood when refinishing.