Hi all,

What would be your preference, for your own home, as far as edge construction on engineered wood flooring:

Beveled, Eased, Micro Beveled or Square Edges?

Pros? Cons?

In my particular installation, the flooring will be pre-finished and is for 24 steps (split steps w/landing) and an entire 2nd floor (i.e. no 1st floor which is mostly tile and 1 room of carpet). We also don't wear shoes in the house, so dirt might be a bit less of an issue.

prefinished I am guessing according to your other post.


Square edges

Advantages
floor should be tighter, no where for water/dirt to call home

Disadvantages
You will feel every single height difference, and stub your toes/catch your socks

bevel/micro bevel

Advantages

Regular bevels will be able to hide more height differences so if your subfloor isnt up to par (to a point) it MAY help that

Micro bevels will hade the average allowed height differences 1/16 or so, Floors dont go in flat, thats why you sand them (unfinished)

Disadvantages

Both
Dirt will make a home in these, biger ones will have more.
The floor isnt sealed off so liquid etc that is spilled can get through the bevels and down to sit on the sub floor, which can cause HUGE problems. And you will have lines of the bevels around every board. (I say this because alot of homeowners would tell me about how they had a prefinished floor installed with lines all over the place, They had not realized it was going to look like that)

eased edges

Honestly I havent worked with anything that had that, I would venture to guess that its a cross beween a bevel and no bevel? Until I see a floor installed with it first hand I cant say anything.

Micro:
Hides sub-floor variations and yet not pronounced enough to be readily visible.
No matter what you install, ya gotta vacuum it and remove soil. Use suction only.. not upright.