The Cost of Laminated Wood Flooring - What Does it Involve?

We must first reflect on the way the laminate floors are constructed before we can comprehend the costs of laminate floors and how they are met. The laminate flooring is constructed by wood panel machinery, composing a High Density (HDF) core, a photographic replica of genuine wood or cartilage, and a highly resistant protective surplus, to provide the floor with the necessary protection and durability.

Underlying is a so-called balancing laminate that helps to avoid moisture coming into the HDF core not only to ensure the stability of the board in the manufacturing process but also because of its non-porosity.

This is connected under great pressure and heat to make a giant floor sheet, which is then sliced into smaller boards with the edges contoured in order to 'click' the boards together without having to stick. The surface treatments like the embossing and the texturing are added throughout the production process with Wood panel machinery.

The real design or appearance of wood is decorative paper. The paper is a photographic replica of a tile or wood floor saturated with melamine.

A very robust, highly resistant, transparent, protecting overlay, with corundum (Al2O3) impregnated with melamine resins, is present on the top of the laminate floor with Wood panel machinery. It is non-porous and therefore, any moisture form cannot be brought into the HDF core board from the top and, because it cannot be absorbed in the floor, floor polish should not be used on a laminated floor.

The core thickness of laminate flooring is crucial as this affects the quality and the standard to be supplied. Laminate floors may be marketed in any space but are generally available in thicknesses: 6mm, 7mm, 8mm, 10mm and 12mm.

Now you know where the product comes from let's look at the cost of laminate flooring:

• This makes the coreboard 6mm, 7mm, 8mm, etc. The thicker the core, the less the product cost difference.
• Fully vertically integrated, it is important to the managed forest - its raw materials, it collects, maintains and builds its own core board, if the factory is fully integrated with wood panel machinery.
• The supporting melamine - this gives the structure of the laminate
• Melamine overlay - The top surface of the floor is an extremely robust, highly resistant, protective, transparent, corundum-impregnated overlay (Al2O3).
• Decoration Paper - a picture replica of wood or tile floor saturated with melamine.
• End - Slight grain, wood grain, micro-bevel, registering and embossing.
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• Transport costs — when the factory is not fully integrated, the core board must ship in, and this is costly — the core board also from another firm has to be purchased — add its margin to the product. Mostly non-vertically integrated plants are unchecked because of core board prices and the vagaries of the market.
• Costs of marketing, brand, publicity etc.
• Production speed - The faster the laminate is produced, the cheaper it gets, because the unit cost is effectively calculated by dividing all costs above into output.
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