The type of joint on engineered wood floors determines how easy they are to fit, how strong and durable they are and whether you need additional fixings like adhesives or nails during the installation process. Engineered wood flooring click uses an innovative joint that allows the planks to click together, without the need for adhesives. The alternative to click-joint engineered wood floors is tongue and groove, where you essentially have a protrusion on the side of one plank and an indent on the side of the other, and you slot these together, using wood adhesive to hold them in place.
In the past, all wood floors used to be tongue and groove, but click engineered wood flooring was invented and essentially revolutionised the industry as a result. Quicker, easier and cheaper to install and, as the construction of these click joints has evolved and improved, a more robust locking mechanism to hold the boards in place and create a strong, gap-free floor.
At Kens Yard, we specialise in Kahrs flooring, a world renowned manufacturer from Sweden and the oldest wood floor manufacturer in operation today. Our Kahrs floors have a range of different click-joints as outlined below: –
Engineered wood flooring click joint, Woodloc® 5S makes installing a Kahrs floor extremely fast and simple. Woodloc® 5S is the newest version of the Woodloc® joint system, the innovative glue-less locking joint system with a special locking tongue to create strong joints.
- The strongest joint on the market
- Fast and easy to install
- Resistant to changes in temperature and humidity
- No gaps
- Covers 75 % larger installation areas without an expansion joint
- Floor can be used directly after installation
- Easy to remove the floor (when installed floating)
- Suitable for use with Kährs 15 mm and 30 mm floors
The Woodloc® joint, developed by Kahrs in 2000, was the world’s first mechanical joint for wood floors. As will all the new iterations that have followed, this is a glueless locking joint that allows the engineered wood flooring planks to click into place besides one another without the need for adhesive.
- Faster and easier to install than traditional joints with glue
- Resistant to changes in temperature and humidity
- No gaps
- Floor can be used directly after installation
- Easy to remove the floor (when installed floating)
- Suitable for use with Kährs 7 mm, 10 mm and 15 mm floors
The Kahrs Woodloc® 5G Click Joint for engineered wood floors is an alternative construction to the 5S, though very similar. It’s typically used on the 13mm and 14mm Kahrs Floors and is a newer, better engineered iteration of the original woodloc® joint.
- Faster and easier to install than traditional joints with glue
- Resistant to changes in temperature and humidity
- No gaps
- Floor can be used directly after installation
- Easy to remove the floor (when installed floating)
- Suitable for use with Kährs 7 mm, 13 mm and 14 mm floors
