Choosing Solid or Environeered Flooring

Shamrock offers both Solid and Environeered flooring options as pre-finished, unfinished and hand scraped products. Both flooring types are excellent options for ground level flooring and above, depending on the subflooring. Due to the differences in installation methods, Environeered flooring is the best choice for basements and other spaces with concrete or other hard subflooring.

Solid
Shamrock's Solid Plank Flooring consists of 100% North American hardwood planks that have been milled, kiln-dried, ripped, molded, graded, and finely crafted to meet our exacting quality specifications. Our Solid hardwood floors are a sustainable building resource, and a beautiful addition to any home.

Environeered
Shamrock's Environeered Plank Flooring is the next generation of sustainable flooring. In an effort to extend Nature's precious resources, we have created a line of engineered flooring designed to be environmentally conservative. Shamrock's Environeered flooring utilizes only 1/4 of the hardwood used in Solid flooring, preserving the same wear life as Solid flooring and extending the use of our hardwood resources. Our core is made from 9 layers of faster-growing plantation grown Birch. This allows us to increase the structural stability of our floors while minimizing the amount of hardwood harvested.

The cross grain construction of our Environeered floors provides inherent structural stability, ensuring decreased expansion and contraction due to temperature and moisture variations. Minimizing movement in each board results in an overall superior installation, and will help preserve the beauty and integrity of your floor. Thicker than most engineered flooring, Shamrock Environeered planks are 5/8".

Reducing our Carbon Footprint means giving you the elegance you desire while taking only what we need from Mother Nature. When choosing Shamrock Solid or Environeered Plank Flooring, you choose beautiful flooring without sacrificing our environment. Hardwood is our heritage - preserving it is our future.