Anderson Tuftex Bernina Hickory Engineered Hardwood

Ask any installer what separates good engineered hardwood from the rest and they will point at the wear layer, not the price tag.

In simple terms: Anderson Tuftex Bernina Hickory is real hickory over a multi-ply core. The surface is the same wood you would get in a solid floor; the core is what keeps it flat over a slab, in a basement, or through the seasons. We stock it and our crew installs it.

Here is what matters on this one. It is real hickory, dramatic grain, natural colour variation, and the hardest common domestic species. Hickory sits around 1820 on the Janka hardness scale, well above the red oak benchmark, so it shrugs off busy traffic. It uses a 1.8mm wear layer, built to be lived on rather than resanded, so it is best treated as a durable finished floor. What you are paying for is stability. A multi-ply core holds its shape across the seasonal humidity swing that moves solid wood. That is why it may be suitable for on-grade or above-grade use, and some collections for below-grade use when approved, including basements and concrete slabs, and over in-floor radiant heat, places solid hardwood cannot.

Decision line: choose Bernina Hickory for the look and the stability, not for repeated sanding; the wear layer is built to be lived on.

Engineered hardwood gives you options solid wood does not: glue-down over concrete, floating, or nail-down over plywood. Our own crew installs Anderson Tuftex Bernina Hickory across the Toronto and Mississauga area, Barrie, and Simcoe County, never subcontracted, and we flatten and moisture-test the subfloor first, finish the trim, and handle matching stairs. See our hardwood installation page.

We keep Bernina Hickory at both stores, where the grain, sheen, and colour read properly. Because it is rated for radiant heat, it also pairs with the in-floor heating membranes we stock. Contact us about availability, or start from our Toronto and Barrie hardwood pages. You can browse the complete Anderson Tuftex lineup on our Anderson Tuftex page.