donnaj123, did you end up making a decision. My 3 1/4 Engineered Brazilian Cherry Floors from Triangulo have arrived. They are replacing the water damaged 5" wide engineered Brazilian Cherry floors from the same company but then they were being sold by BR-111 and installed in September 2009. My installer then put one 72" long board on top of another and the very long wide dark board really stuck out getting me upset. I decided I just prefer the less wide board for my townhouse and any short boards can be made long by putting a similar color on top. I will let you know how the floor install looks next week. My wood was delivered today and I was surprised on the box to see it only has a 30% sheen. I could not get any samples of the Indusparquet that was $1/sq ft more but I see now based on finally having time to look at their website and figure out how to use it that they have a Urethane sheen over their aluminum oxide wood so it will be shinier. I hope I made the right decision. If I want shinier, I can do that for my bedroom I guess. I thought they were the exact same product so why pay more. So far in the cartons from opening the sides, it looks like many of the boards are long but I will know on Wednesday next week. Matt is in style right now and shows less smudges but I still prefer more of a satin finish. But the wood is here and I get a lot of traffic in my home office during my tax season so maybe it is best to not have too much of a sheen here. I just wish I had gotten a sample but the insurance company was rushing me to get a contract signed.

Marti - we have floating engineered hardwood over slab. Can you get anyone to see of you have any old plumbing buried in the slab that is leaking? This is be of the things we did. We had floating engineer wood from Summitt Forest Products. It had a nice handscraped look and none believes me when I say they are engineered. They don't look site finished but do not look like Pergo either. We had it glued near transitions to tile etc. Looks like you are stuck in analysis paralysis. Consider delegating this decision to another person who will just research and get it done and then you can move on to other things. I found that in our remodel, DH and I needed to delegate to one another a few times to take a break and get some distance. Good luck!

I found it at a dealer in Elizabethtown Ky. I tried to call the distributor in Ohio today office was closed. I don’t know where it was made. Hopeing to find out Monday when I call back

Here is a very helpful article on how to pick a high quality Engineered floor <- click For the product you mentioned are you ready to re oil the floor once its installed. It will require maintenance oil applications as well. Something to consider.