| Hate laminate? You are not alone. So does The | | | | Enter Anderson flooring. |
| Anderson Company. Anderson hates laminate for | | | | Hardwearing and effortlessly beautiful, Anderson |
| good reason - it's in the business of producing | | | | flooring is famous for being produced under one of |
| beautifully polished, hardwearing hardwood floors. | | | | the tightest quality standards in the industry. Anyone |
| Laminates fake the appearance of wood, at the | | | | who has ever used the material can easily distinguish |
| expense of misled consumers who have no idea of | | | | it from the other names on the market. Why? Well, |
| the many benefits they are missing out on. | | | | the company uses solid oak core, instead of softer |
| Not Anderson. | | | | woods. And, while solid oak is much more expensive, |
| The company originally collaborated with the U.S | | | | it's also more durable and is exceptionally harder. The |
| Navy; and it's first innovation was a method for | | | | difference pays off because in a Janka Ball Hardness |
| devising plywood so flexible and strong it can be | | | | Test, the company's planks beat oak lumber in all |
| used for boat hulls. After the company came up with | | | | meters but one. |
| parquet blocks that can be fitted over concrete (a | | | | So the next time you get any renovation or |
| feat that was unheard of in the day), it started | | | | construction work done, skip laminate. Why fake it |
| producing full-length planks that performed just as | | | | when you can easily get the real thing? With |
| well as parquet under damp conditions, and are | | | | Anderson flooring, you get real hard wood that's soft |
| equally durable. From there, the company perfected | | | | on the pocket. |
| its construction of engineered floors. | | | | |