Woden Flooring in Mississauga and Barrie

Every Woden engineered hardwood collection is 3/4 inch overall in random length boards. That part does not change. What changes is the real wood veneer bonded to the top, and it ranges from 1.2 mm to 4.0 mm across the line. A thicker top layer means more material available for sanding and refinishing later in the floor's life. A thinner one means the floor is a surface, not a long term asset.

• Vermont Collection. 1.2 mm top layer, American oak, wire brushed, 6 1/2 inch wide. Colours run Blizzard, Vivid White, Fog, Rock Cliffs, Woodland, Modern Grey, Cloudy Grey, Hudson, Charcoal. The entry point of the range.
• Elite Collection. 2.0 mm top layer, European oak, wire brushed, character grade, 6 1/2 inch wide, at least half the boards full length. Colours: Noble, Monaco, Cashmere, Timberwolf, Gold Coast.
• Grand Chateau Collection. 2.0 mm top layer, European oak, wire brushed, character grade, 7 1/2 inch wide, at least half the boards full length. Colours: Townsend, Romance, Rocky, Chelsea, Raven, Skye, Natural, Coyote.
• Timbercraft Collection. 3.0 mm top layer, European oak, ABC grade, 7 1/2 inch wide, smoked with sawmark or smoked and wire brushed. Colours: Bluff, Moonlit, Twilight, Whisky Barrel, Aroma, Mysa.
• Monte Rosa Collection. 3.0 mm top layer, American oak, AB grade, wire brushed, 7 1/2 inch wide, at least two thirds of the boards full length. Colours: Nice, Menton, Turin, Milan, Sanremo. A 6 1/2 inch version of Monte Rosa is now available in Como, Alba, Verona and Pisa.
• Monte Rosa Herringbone. Same 3.0 mm American oak AB grade construction, cut to a 5.9 inch by 35.4 inch herringbone block.
• Lumine Collection. 4.0 mm top layer, European oak, AB and ABC grade, wire brushed, 6 1/2 inch wide. Colours: Snowhaze, Oatlight, Creamwood, Silkstone, Cloudbeam. The thickest veneer Woden makes.
• Jungfrau. A hickory option we carry in store. Hickory runs harder than oak with wider colour variation board to board. It is not on Woden's current published price list, so confirm availability with us before you plan around it.

Grade is a look, not a quality ranking. AB grade shows fewer knots and less colour swing. ABC and character grade show more. Neither is stronger than the other. Cleaner grades read quieter in a small room, and heavier grades hide life in a busy hallway.

Decision: if you expect to sand and refinish this floor once or twice, start at 3.0 mm and look at Timbercraft, Monte Rosa or Lumine. If the floor is going into a rental, a condo, or a room you plan to redo in a decade, Vermont and Elite do the job without paying for veneer you will never sand.

All of it is engineered hardwood, which means the plywood core holds dimension far better than solid wood. That is why it can go over concrete, over a slab, and over in-floor heating membrane systems where solid boards cannot.

Woden's vinyl planks are rigid core rigid-core with an attached underpad, and the collections are named for their total thickness. The split between core and pad matters more than the total. A 9 mm plank with a 7 mm core sits on a firmer, flatter foundation than a thinner plank, and it hides small subfloor imperfections better.

• 6 Collection. 7 inch by 60 inch plank, 6 mm total: 4.5 mm rigid-core core plus 1.5 mm attached pad.
• 7 Garnet Collection. 7 inch by 60 inch plank, 7 mm total: 5.0 mm rigid-core core plus 2.0 mm pad. Colours include Farmhouse, Woodcraft, Jasper, Bedford, Pacific, Beach, Sicily.
• Herringbone Collection. 5 inch by 24 inch block, 7 mm total: 5.5 mm rigid-core core plus 1.5 mm pad. Colours: Prestige Natural, Seaside Motel, Honey Oak, Light Champagne.
• 8 Diamond Collection. 7 inch by 60 inch plank, 8 mm total: 6.0 mm rigid-core core plus 2.0 mm pad. Colours run Sandy Shell, Sierra Canyon, Ashy Stone, Trail Bay, Misty Island, Rustic Pier, Arcodia, Late Autumn, Greek Cabin, Capital Reef, Mount Harbor, Grand Basin.
• 9 Collection. 7 inch by 60 inch plank, 9 mm total: 7.0 mm rigid-core core plus 2.0 mm pad. Colours: Sea Breeze, Foggy Rockies, Eternal Cosmos, Vanilla Coconut, Monarch Coast, Boundless Sand, Sandstone, Charleston.
• 11 Collection. 9 inch by 60 inch plank, 11 mm total: 9.0 mm rigid-core core plus 2.0 mm pad. The widest and thickest plank Woden builds. Colours: Night Freeze, Camellia, Moon Fly, Vintage Cream, Silver Mist, Twilight, Wild Truffle, Wheatfield.
• Glue Down Collection. 48 inch by 7.25 inch, 3 mm pure vinyl, no rigid core, bonded directly to the subfloor with adhesive. Built for commercial traffic and for floors where height is tight.
• Looselay Collection. 48.4 inch by 7.44 inch, 5 mm pure vinyl with a 20 mil wear layer. Lays flat without adhesive or clicking. Individual planks lift out and swap without touching the rest of the floor.

Woden publishes a wear layer figure for the Looselay Collection only. We do not print wear layer numbers for the rigid-core collections here, because they are not on the current spec sheet and a wrong number is worse than no number. Ask us in the store and we will read the box to you.

Decision: basement, condo, kitchen, or anywhere water is a real risk, choose an rigid-core collection and go thicker if the subfloor is uneven. A retail unit or office needs the 3 mm Glue Down. A space where you want to replace one damaged plank without a professional visit needs the Looselay.

These sit in our wider vinyl plank range. If you are cross-shopping, our COREtec and Fuzion pages cover the same rigid core category from a different angle.

Woden's laminate is the 12 Collection: 7 3/4 inch by 60 inch boards at 12 mm, in Plain, Terra, Meteor, Glacier, Basin and Cliff. Twelve millimetres is thick for a laminate, and the payoff is underfoot. A thick board sounds solid rather than hollow, and it bridges minor subfloor variation instead of telegraphing it.

Water resistant is not waterproof. Laminate has a fibreboard core. It handles a spilled glass and a wet boot. It does not handle a dishwasher line that leaks for a week. That is a real distinction, and anyone who blurs it is selling, not advising.

Decision: living room, bedroom, hallway, upstairs: the 12 Collection performs and feels substantial. Basement, laundry, full bathroom: skip it and use Woden Evolution vinyl instead. See the full water resistant laminate category to compare.

Woden makes stair tread and riser sets designed to match the floor collections. This matters more than it sounds. A staircase finished in a near match rather than an exact match is the single most visible mistake in a flooring job, because you look at stairs head on, at eye level, every day.

Woden also supplies the transition pieces the job needs: reducers, T-mouldings, stair nosing with a round return, risers, and square return stair boards. Underpad options include a 2 mm pad with vapour barrier, and a 3 mm black EVA condo pad with silver foil rated IIC 73 and STC 72, which is the rating most Toronto and Mississauga condo boards ask for in writing before they approve a floor.

Decision: order stair sets at the same time as the floor, from the same production run. Colour drifts between runs. Browse wood stair treads and risers and bring your stair count to the store.

Any retailer in Ontario can sell you a box of Woden. The question worth asking is who fits it, and whether that person works for the company that took your deposit.

Squarefoot Flooring runs its own installation crews, residential and commercial, on staff full time. We are not booking a subcontractor and hoping. Before the first board goes down that crew checks subfloor flatness, checks moisture in both the subfloor and the boards, and confirms acclimation. A 4.0 mm Lumine floor installed over a slab that was never moisture tested will fail, and the wood will get blamed. The wood was fine.

We install across Toronto, Mississauga, Etobicoke, Brampton, Port Credit, Erin Mills, Streetsville, Meadowvale and Cooksville from the Mississauga store, and across Barrie, Innisfil, Angus, Orillia, Collingwood, Midland and Simcoe County from the Barrie store. Lead time in the GTA runs about two weeks. Barrie and cottage country from May through September book eight to twelve weeks ahead, so plan a summer job in the spring.

See hardwood installation, vinyl installation and laminate installation, and check flooring underlayments before you finalize a condo order.

Woden does not publish a wear layer figure for its Evolution vinyl collections, and warranty terms are issued per collection rather than as one blanket document. We will not fill those gaps with a guess. Come into the Mississauga or Barrie store, tell us the room, and we will pull the box, read the printed spec, and show you the warranty page that ships with it.

Ask for a sample. Take it home. Put it under the light your room actually gets, at the hour you are actually in the room. Oak that reads warm under store lighting can read grey against a north facing window in February. No photograph on any website solves that, including ours.

Woden engineered hardwood, vinyl plank, laminate and matching stair sets are on display at both Squarefoot Flooring stores. Bring your measurements, your subfloor type, and a photo of the room in daylight.

Mississauga. 700 Dundas St E, Unit 3-4, L4Y 3Y5. Call 905-277-2227. Monday to Friday 9 to 6, Saturday 10 to 5, closed Sunday.

Barrie. 112 Saunders Rd, Units 1-4, L4N 9A8. Call 705-726-2272. Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9 to 6, Tuesday and Thursday 9 to 5, Saturday 10 to 5, closed Sunday.

Walk in with a floor plan and walk out with a spec you can defend. Book a store visit, or call and we will tell you in five minutes whether Woden is the right answer for your room, including when it is not.