Can you put polyurethane on these new type hard wood floors, like you put on the real hard wood floors.?
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If it's laminate flooring you need to find out the manufacture if at all possible. This way you can find out what that manufacture recommends. If you can not find out that information you got several options including polyurethane. Just go to your local building supplier and tell them your needs and they should be able to point you with a variety of options. All wood floors needs protected from every day travel.
Good luck and enjoy your floor.
A floor is either real wood or it isn't. If you are talking about Laminate flooring there is no need to as they are sealed already and are not made of wood anyway.
Many of the newer wood floors, pre-finished, use a water based urethane so be careful with what you put on top. I would check with the manufacturer to determine what finish was used and what the recommendation is for re-finishing. I forget the correct term (structured wood?) are laminated wood (not the same as a laminate floor) with a very thin veneer of hardwood on the surface making refinishing a little difficult as they can not be sanded very deeply without getting into the underlying layers of wood.
If they're anything like parquet flooring, where they just dovetail one into the other, don't do it. One of my father's employees installed their parquet flooring, and he wanted to be sure it would stay down, so he hammered them in as tightly as possible, glued them down, then put polyurethane on top. The problem is, they need those gaps as expansion joints, so when there was a little bit of moisture, the flooring buckled up all over, and since it was also glued down, it pretty much takes a chisel to get them out.
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