Flooring Bevel Style Classification

To get the flooring made with the right bevel style is very important. When you place the order with the flooring factory, this is a serious technical information need to confirm.

If the bevel is not right, even the finish, the Joint, grading everything is perfect, the floor will still looks very urgly and difficult to sell in the market, which means the failure of the business.

E.g: Below floor is the unvarnished super wide plank with 2200 Long x 300 Wide, But the bevel was made very small (only about 0.5mm). After this floor being installed, it need to be entirely well sanded and doing finish coating on site. After this, the 1mm bevel will just disappear. Which makes the floor looks quite ugly. (It’s difficult to see how wide the floor it is.)

Small Bevel made the “Super Wide Plank” lost it’s purpose.

Differnt Flooring Bevel Styles

Square Edge

The edges of all boards meet squarely creating uniform. Smooth surface that blends the floor together from board to board. The overall look of this floor gives a contemporary flair and formal feeling to the room.

Micron-beveled Edge

Micron-beveled edge has the shallowest groove. Micron-bevel and micro-bevel are so close that between manufacturers they may be hard to determine any difference.

Micro-bevel Edge

Micro-beveled planks have a slightly shallower groove than most eased edged planks. Like the eased edge. The micro-bevel is meant to help hide minor irregularities. Such as uneven plank heights.

Eased Edge

The eased edge has a slightly shallower groove than the full beveled edge. Some manufacturers add the eased edge along both the length of each planks as well as along the end joints. This will give the floor a different visual effect when installed.

Full Beveled Edge

These products have a very distinctive deep groove in them. Beveled edge planks lend themselves to an informal and country décor. With the urethane finishes sealed at the factory today the beveled edges are swept or vacuumed out of the grooves.

Bevel Size and Suitable Flooring Size

Bevel Style	Bevel Size	Suitable Floor	Pictures
Square Edge	0 mm	70-90mm in DIY installation
Micron-bevel	0.3 mm	90-125mm in standard size flooring
Micro-bevel	0.5-0.7 mm	125-148mm in normal plank Engineered Flooring
Eased Edge	0.7-1.4 mm	190-220mm in Wide Plank Engineered Flooring
Full bevel	1.5-2 mm	300-400mm in Super Wide Plank Flooring

2-side Bevel, 2-Ends Square

Most of plank flooring are made into this style, with 2-ends square. When this kind of floor installed in a very big room, it looks fantastic, looks just like trees installed at home.

Distressed Edge

Distressed Edge are mostly used in antique style plank flooring. The distressed can be made by both hand and machine, anyway, Hand distressed looks much natural and elegant.

By Denny Chen|2022-07-20T14:44:54+08:00August 14th, 2015|Flooring Knowledge|Comments Off

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Founder and Managing Director of Lord Parquet. He is always traveling, for passion, also for vision. He walked in the forest of Indonesia, Thailand, Australia to endue the most appropriate definition for each single species. He visited customers, friends, creative spaces all over the world in the U.S, Canada, U.K, Japan, U.A.E and South east Asia to think of the influence of different cultures in Interior design style. He loves wood products, also a passion for photography and indoor design. He is dedicated to design, improve and promote most created and quality wooden floor products for the world market.