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Re: OT: Prefinished hardwood flooring
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Posted by ursaw (more from ursaw) on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:25:18 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: OT: Prefinished hardwood flooring, andym, Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:11:53
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Well my dad spent most of his working years in the forestry industry so I picked up a few things about wood I guess.

You typically see hardwood floors in oak because oak is relatively high on both the hardness (although many woods are harder) and availability scales and has other desirable traits for floors.

Cherry, although a hard wood, probably is typically near the bottom of the hardwoods in terms of hardness. However, with wood you have to look at specific types as they often have very different characteristics in terms of color, hardness, grain (closed/open), and the like. For example, Brazilian Cherry is actually very hard and is probably not all that far off from the some of the teaks in terms of hardness.

However, especially since your looking at a manufactured product, it is probably an oak top layer with a cherry finish. Just check to see what type of wood they use for the top layer and make sure the top layer isn't too thin so that it can be refinished a number of times.

About 15 years ago in the kitchen my parents put in a Bruce manufacture floor and it was glued over the standard plywood base floor. When gluing the quality of the installation is important to avoid dead spots apparently. It has held up really well even with spills and water near the sink. Apparently it can be lightly refinished about twice and probably is getting near where it should have the first refinishing to seal it well again against moisture, however, it still looks very good.

The one advantage of the solid wood floors is they can be refinished repeatedly without concern and even reclaimed and reused in another home in the future. With these pay attention to specific type of wood and the finishing. For larger open spaces I prefer the solid hard floors but the manufacture products with a decent wood top layer work well in many situations.

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