Engineered wood flooring has the luxurious look and feel that makes hardwood floors so sought-after by ... flooring consists of a core layer of plywood or fiberboard, a top layer of hardwood ...

That is, a plywood core composed of multiple layers ... You can refinish engineered floors fewer times than hardwood, for example, but more than laminate (which can be refinished zero times).

Rather than being made from single planks, engineered floors consist of hardwood applied over a plywood core. These layers make engineered floors resistant to moisture and temperature changes and ...

(CR doesn’t test unfinished floors ... can be made of plywood, vinyl, or a composite like that used in laminates. Engineered wood flooring offers the look and feel of hardwood with one ...