An analysis of compatibility - the 3 layers, 15 mm thick, prefinished engineered hardwood flooring plank versus the solid unfinished border (or medallions) inlays.
In the above image left side there is a hardwood floor border inlay piece, manufactured from solid wood, top-to-bottom, at a 10 mm thickness. Borders can be produced in thicknesses that start from 6 mm (1/4 in.) up to 10-11 mm maximum. Only exceptionally they can be thicker (14 mm that means 0,55 in). This border inlay is naturally compatible with the solid hardwood flooring or with parquet flooring that are delivered as unfinished (no finish applied to the surface). The installation of the hardwood flooring or parquet flooring with the inlays are used with is done the traditional way: glue down-sanding-finishing.
In the right side of the image we have a 3 layers prefinished engineered hardwood flooring plank with 15 mm (3/5 in.) thickness and a 189 mm width (cca. 7 1/2 in). This type of hardwood flooring is composed from a sandwich of three layers: -at the top a 3,5 mm (0,13 in.) layer made of Oak, in the middle there is a core of softwood arranged transversally with reference to the top layer wood fiber direction - this accounts for 9,5 mm (approx. 3/8 in.) and at the botton a layer of softwood 2 mm thick. This flooring comes factory prefinished (with a layer of factory-applied urethane/lacquer). Leaving outside any other considerations to install this thin top layer with inlays is not feasible especially for reasons of the thickness of the top layer. Our conclusion: incompatible with the inlays.
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