Our 3-layer floors consist of a surface layer, core layer and backing. The core material is made from pine/spruce lamella. The total thickness of the floor is 15-20 mm. The surface layer can be re-sanded 3-4 times. Our 3-layer floors can both be installed floating on a level, solid surface such as concrete, particleboard or wood or glued down.

The 2-layer floors consist of a surface layer and backing. The core material is made from pine/spruce lamella. The total thickness of the floor is 9-11 mm. The surface layer can be re-sanded 3-4 times. Our 2-layer floors should be installed glued down.

Our veneer flooring consists of three layers; surface, core and backing. The core is made from HDF. The total thickness is 7 mm. These floors should not be re-sanded. They are installed floating on a level, solid surface such as concrete, particleboard or wood and can also be glued down.

A wooden floor is hygroscopic, which means it is living and moving. As a room's humidity changes, the floor swells, shrinks and moves. You might not think about it very often, but the humidity in your home varies a lot depending on the season. These fluctuations create extensive natural changes. If you’ve ever had a wooden chair that’s started to creak, it’s probably because of humidity changes.

These changes are what cause gaps to occur in solid wood flooring. The purpose of a lamella construction is to counteract wood's natural movement. By gluing different layers crossways, they never move in the same direction. Thanks to their construction, lamella floors are up to 75% more stable than solid wood floors.

The thickness of a lamella wood floor differs between manufacturers. Like solid wood floors, you can sand a lamella wood floor up to four times, giving it a longer life.

Apart from a durable construction, lamella floors are also a sustainable choice. The construction uses valuable hardwood in a more effective way and the base layers often consist of more common or recycled woods like spruce or pinewood.

How long will a parquet floor last? Not even an expert can be sure just by looking at it. But now you can be sure with Kährs. No one gives you a more comprehensive guarantee than we do. That’s because there is only one way to manufacture parquet flooring with the quality that Kährs insist upon.

Hundreds of people and thousands of eyes scrutinise every piece of wood that goes into Kährs parquet flooring. They select the trees in the forests, guide the saw blades in our saw mills, examine each board to find the perfect raw materials and inspect every inch of flooring before it is delivered. Of course, we have high-tech machines – but we still rely on the human eye to match the different hues, structures and qualities that make Kährs parquet unique. And we do it because that is the only way we can guarantee you will still be just as happy with your floor in thirty years from now.

People like us, who have been working with wood for generations, are not as tolerant as Mother Nature. We know that the natural fibres in wooden flooring cannot be allowed to swell and shrink with the changing seasons as they do out in the wild. That’s why we bond layers of real wood at right angles to one another to build parquet flooring that will keep its shape in all weathers, all year round.

In 1941 Gustaf Kähr, from the third generation of a Swedish timber-processing family, patented this construction which ever since has formed the basis for Kährs parquet flooring.

The joints, adhesive and lacquer have been gradually perfected over the years, but it is still the expert eyes of hundreds of experienced men and women, selecting and inspecting a genuine wood product, that make sure that Kährs parquet is quality parquet.