Hardwoods Timber Pines What Types of Wood are Used in Hardwood Flooring?

When people search for hardwood flooring for their home, they might quickly be taken back by the fact that there are many different types of wood that are used in hardwoods. Timber Pines residents should be aware that different types of wood carry with them different properties such as color, grain appearance and knots, as well as they way they react to temperature and humidity changes. If you and your family are looking to upgrade from carpet or laminate to hardwood flooring, you should take enough time to determine what type of wood would be best for your home.

Red Oak Flooring

Probably the most common type of domestic wood species for hardwood flooring would have to be red oak wood. Unlike other options in hardwoods, Timber Pines residents might like red oak because it is more grainy than other types of hardwood, plush the color of the actual wood itself is very apparent, ranging from very light whites and yellows to almost a brown or a dark red color.

Maple Wood Flooring

Maple wood is another great example of a domestic hardwoods. Timber Pines residents who are looking for a lower intensity color or something that has more white to it should consider maple flooring. Unlike red oak wood that has predominate graining, maple wood has less intense graining that is not as apparent. Maple hardwood flooring is renowned for being a very hard wood species but because it contains hard and soft cell structures job site staining a darker color can come out blotchy if the wood is not conditioned first using a liquid wood conditioner.

Walnut Wood Flooring

Walnut flooring (often called Black Walnut or American Walnut), is one of the darker kinds of flooring options that can be purchased. Many people like the natural dark brown color that walnut comes in with any extra staining added to the surface of the wood.

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