Character Grade Oak Flooring

For oak flooring there are 3 main grades.

Character grade oak flooring. Clear oak a flooring product of mostly heartwood with a minimum number of character marks and discoloration providing a uniform appearance while allowing for all heartwood natural color variations. Custom flooring and tongue and groove products are available upon request. These more rustic grades include. These planks range from a very respectable 2 to 10 feet long and feature just the right amount of knots worm holes mineral streaks and other natural character flaws that make this white oak flooring naturally beautiful.

White oak has open grain and can range from light gray to warm brown shades. Select oak has more color variation and more natural character marks such as small knots. Open splits and knots create the effect of antique wood and emphasize authentic oak texture. Maple 2 better hickory 1 better hickory character red oak 1 common character and white oak 1 common character.

Baird brothers premium white oak character grade flooring is made to order. Select grade is generally considered the highest grade as it has the least color variation. 3 8 bright sapwood entire length of strip or equivalent if not extending further than 1 for 1 3 length of piece. Its average board length is 3 feet.

We can can pre finishyour v groove or micro v groove flooring with a clear finish or you can choose one of baird brothers ten stain colors. Select number 1 common and number 2 common. In the absence if these one thin brown streak 3 long to be. Wood is a completely natural product and as such has features such as knots colour variation and sap when it is lumbered.

It is also known as natural grade wood flooring. This character grade white oak flooring consists of the perfect blend of natural character markings to create a hardwood flooring that is perfectly. Will admit the following. All these wood species are available in both prefinished or unfinished and in a myriad of plank widths.

Available in solid and engineered wood flooring options it is an affordable and attractive option that not surprisingly is full of character. Under grading rules developed by nofma there are four levels of oak flooring. And equivalent characters such as small tight checks. Character grade wood flooring is the third in a series of four wood grades.

The two most common types of character grade wood are white oak and black walnut. Meanwhile black walnut planks have a deep brown shade that makes for extremely attractive home flooring. They just assume all oak flooring is the same. Most customers don t realize that there are different grades of oak flooring.

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