Products
When choosing a hardwood floor for your home, the choices can be overwhelming.
Some options are:
- Pre-finished vs. unfinished
- Strip flooring vs. plank flooring
- Plain-sawn vs. quarter-sawn
- Solid vs. engineered
- Specialty design elements
- Wood species
Along with these choices, today’s wood floors come in more than 50 species, both domestic and exotic, spanning the spectrum of color options, hardness, grade and price ranges. We also offer a wide variety of manufactured flooring options for residential and commercial applications. No matter what the look you want to achieve, there are a variety of species to meet your needs.
The Janka hardness test measures the hardness of wood. It involves measuring the force required to embed a 11.28 millimeter (0.444 inch) steel ball into wood to half its diameter. This method was chosen so that the result would leave an indention 100 square millimeters in size. It is one of the best measures of the ability of a wood species to withstand denting and wear. It is also a good indicator of how hard a species is to saw or nail.