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I must first admit that I am a floor finisher so I am biased towards site finished floors. I install quite a bit of engineered flooring and have done a lot of it in commercial applications. I use a flooring product made by Owens Flooring. They make a great product that doesn't have the problems you mentioned like being to thin or soft. I truely believe these products to be superior to solid flooring for a number of reasons. First of all is how well the flooring products are milled. They are so precise in the milling that I don't have to "cut" the floor hard with my sanders so there is more wear layer than you get when you use solid flooring which means it can be sanded more times. Next is how stable these products are. I put these products in a Yoga Studio that has classes where the temp in the room is 75 degrees and 10 minutes later they have a class where it is 105 degrees. This floor has been in place for one year now and we haven't had any complaints. In fact, I send potential customers there to look and see how well the floors hold up. Anyway, just my two cents worth...

Charlie
www.GetClassicHardwood.com