Engineered Flooring: Layers like an Onion, not Duplicity like Madoff

Engineered Flooring Would Treat Kevin Bacon Right, Not Swindle Him. Bad Madoff. Bad. No. NO. Off the Couch.

A wise, mass-marketed green ogre once said that complex people have “Layers, like an onion.” Bernie Madoff only had 2: The legitimate and massively successful business man facade, and then the fraudulent amoeba of greed underneath.

Engineered flooring, well, engineered flooring is different: It’s surface layer? Typically a beautiful veneer of wood that is durable and able to be sanded and refinished,  around 1-2mm thick. But the consistency doesn’t end there: Beneath this surface layer is a solid core of plywood layers arranged perpendicularly to one another to provide maximum structural stability and avoid expansion and contraction that sometimes hinders solid hardwood flooring.

Gunstock Oak: Beautiful, Honest, Stable. It won't ask you for money, just give you your money's worth.

Let me ask you something: Take a look at this Gunstock stained White Oak. Do you think this stuff would ever swindle Kevin Bacon out of his quality-performance-earned dough?

No way.

It would just sit under his feet and support him consistently without swelling and contracting so that he could rest easy and go to work the next morning and turn in awesome performances like that in Wild Things, Stir of Echoes, and Hollow Man (OK wait, scratch that last one, let’s go with Mystic River.)

No, Gunstock Oak would be more like Harry Markopolos, a financial analyst who blew the whistle on Madoff 3 years before the fact, but no one would listen to him, and the Wall Street Journal declined to publish the documents outlining the red flags suggesting Madoff’s wrongdoing. Now, given, a plank of Gunstock Oak teetering into the Wall Street Journal office with a manifesto might be hard to take seriously, but the sheer weight of the evidence held in those docs would probably be enough to overshadow the whole inanimate object courier quandary.

But then, maybe someone in the Wall Street Journal didn’t want the papers to be published, and our hero Gunstock Oak would be used for kindling. New York can be a scary town for a little wood board with a heart of gold.

It took the massive economic turmoil of the recession to puncture through Madoff’s thin veneer and reveal the fraud that had been festering underneath. But you can rest assured, with quality engineered flooring, even the biggest shocks, impacts, and environmental fluctuations will be shrugged off by the earnest strength of natural hardwood and superior engineering.