Brand Surfaces HIckory Engineered Hardwood

Engineered hardwood gets dismissed as the budget option, which misses the point: it is real wood built to go where a solid plank fails.

In simple terms: Brand Surfaces HIckory pairs a real hickory top layer with an engineered core built for stability. It gives you a genuine wood floor that can go where solid planks cannot, and we carry and install it ourselves.

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. The wear layer is 2mm of real wood, enough for one careful refinish down the road. The core is the quiet workhorse here. A dimensionally stable engineered core resists the expansion and contraction that makes solid wood cup, gap, or lift. Widths run from 6 1/2 to 7 1/2 inches, so you can keep it classic or go wide-plank and modern. The surface is wire-brushed, which lifts the grain for texture and quietly hides everyday wear. It is a character grade, with natural colour variation and knots. It carries a 25-year warranty. Colours in the range include Hickory Engineered Morro Bay, Hickory Engineered Ventura, Hickory Engineered Greate Sur, Hickory Engineered Summerland, and Hickory Engineered Baywood.

Decision line: choose Brand Surfaces HIckory when you want genuine hardwood that will stay flat over a slab or in a basement.

Our installers handle Brand Surfaces HIckory from subfloor moisture testing to the final trim, across the GTA, Barrie, and Simcoe County, with no subcontractors. Over concrete we typically glue down, over plywood we nail or float, and the prep is where the job is won. See the hardwood installation page.

A small sample never shows how Brand Surfaces HIckory moves across a whole room. See it at our Mississauga or Barrie store, contact us about availability, and compare materials on the hardwood vs vinyl guide.