Naf Flooring Maple 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: Naf Flooring Maple is engineered hardwood, which means a real maple surface over a cross-layered core. You get the look of solid wood with the stability to put it over concrete or in a basement. Squarefoot Flooring stocks it and installs it in-house.

It is real maple, a fine, even grain that reads light and clean, at home in contemporary spaces. On the Janka scale Maple runs about 1450, harder than oak and a strong choice for high-traffic rooms. It uses a 1.5mm wear layer, built to be lived on rather than resanded, so it is best treated as a durable finished floor. Underneath the wood is a cross-layered engineered core, and that is the whole point: it keeps the floor flat where a solid board would react to the seasons. Planks run 6 1/2 inches wide, a wide-plank look that shows off the grain. A handscraped surface gives it a worn, characterful look. Micro-bevelled edges give each plank a defined line and absorb the seasonal movement of a wood floor. It carries a 30-year residential warranty.

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

We install Naf Flooring Maple with our own team, not subcontractors, across the GTA, Barrie, and Simcoe County. The method depends on the subfloor, glued to concrete, floated, or nailed to plywood, and a flat, dry base matters more than anything. Read how we work on the hardwood installation page, or see our projects.

Wood reads differently across a full floor than in a sample chip, so it is worth seeing NAF Maple under room light at either store. Contact us to check availability, or browse the full hardwood flooring range. For the full Naf Flooring range, see our Naf Flooring page.