Unfinished or prefinished hardwood floors?
Unfinished or prefinished hardwood floors?
It is not easy task to decide what kind of hardwood floors install in your house. There is a lot of different kinds of floors, there are domestic floors like oak, cheery, maple, walnut and exotic such as Brazilian cheery, bamboo, teak and much more. You can see samples of hardwood floors in the showrooms or order one online and compare the look. Make sure you take in consideration the hardness of the wood.
Here is the list, the higher the number the harder the wood:
Ipe / Brazilian Walnut / Lapacho 3684
Cumaru / Brazilian Teak 3540
Ebony 3220
2900
Red Mahogany, Turpentine 2697
Brazilian Cherry / Jatoba 2350
Santos Mahogany, Bocote, Cabreuva 2200
Cameron 1940
Rosewood 1780
Kempas 1710
Wenge, Red Pine 1630
Zebrawood 1575
Hard Maple / Sugar Maple 1450
Natural Bamboo (represents one species) 1380
White Oak 1360
Ash (White) 1320
American Beech 1300
Red Oak (Northern) 1290
Carbonized Bamboo (represents one species) 1180
Cocobolo 1136
Teak 1000
Douglas Fir 660
Larch 590
Chestnut 540
Eastern White Pine 380
After you have chosen which species you like you have to decide from unfinished or prefinished hardwood floors.
