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WOOD SPECIES USED in WOOD FLOORING Revised Edition NATIONAL WOOD FLOORING ASSOCIATION TECHNICAL PUBLICATION No. A200 Price: $30 R WOOD SPECIES USED IN WOOD FLOORING Revised Edition APPEARANCE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES WORKABILITY RELATIVE COST AVAILABILITY © 2004 NATIONAL WOOD FLOORING ASSOCIATION NATIONAL WOOD FLOORING ASSOCIATION TECHNICAL PUBLICATION No. A200 CONTENTS WOOD SPECIES USED IN WOOD FLOORING 3 INTRODUCTION: AN OVERVIEW OF WOOD PROPERTIES 6 RELATIVE AVAILABILITY OF SELECTED WOOD FLOORING SPECIES 7 RELATIVE HARDNESS OF SELECTED WOOD FLOORING SPECIES RELATIVE STABILITY OF SELECTED WOOD FLOORING SPECIES 8 COLOR CHANGES IN WOOD FLOORING PROPERTIES OF 13 DOMESTIC WOOD SPECIES 9 9 Ash, White 16 Mesquite 10 Beech 17 Oak, Red 11 Birch 18 Oak, White 12 Cherry, Black 19 Pine, Antique Heart 13 Douglas Fir 20 Pine, Southern Yellow 14 Hickory/Pecan 21 Walnut, American Black 15 Maple, Sugar/Hard PROPERTIES OF 20 IMPORTED WOOD SPECIES 22 22 Bamboo 32 Maple, Brazilian 23 Bubinga 33 Merbau 24 Cherry, Brazilian 34 Oak, Tasmanian 25 Cork 35 Padauk 26 Cypress, Australian 36 Purpleheart 27 Gum, Spotted 37 Sapele 28 Gum, Sydney Blue 38 Teak, Brazilian 29 Iroko 39 Teak, Thai/Burmese 30 Jarrah 40 Walnut, Brazilian 31 Mahogany, Santos 41 Wenge 41 RESOURCES AND CREDITS NO GUARANTEE OR WARRANTY The information contained in this publication represents generally accepted descriptions of wood species and their properties. However, wood is a natural material subject to numerous variations in grain, color, hardness and dimensional stability, and no description is able to encompass all possible variations. The National Wood Flooring Association accepts no risk or liability for application of the information contained in this publication. 2 © 2004 NATIONAL WOOD FLOORING ASSOCIATION NATIONAL WOOD FLOORING ASSOCIATION TECHNICAL PUBLICATION No. A200 WOOD SPECIES USED IN WOOD FLOORING Introduction: An Overview of Wood Properties ood is a dynamic medium. Like all and natural warmth. A beautiful wood floor can organic materials, it has character and enliven a drab room, enhance any architectural W quirks, responds to its environment, and style, complement furniture and design schemes, changes over time. Because of its “personality,” wood and add value to any home or building. should be treated with understanding and a certain A combination of qualities should be considered amount of care. For wood flooring professionals, when selecting a species for flooring: appearance- knowing about the properties of wood in general, as related attributes such as texture, grain and color; well as those of individual wood species, is critical to as well as mechanical properties such as dimen- proper installation. For consumers, it’s important to sional stability, durability, machinability and ease in have realistic expectations about how wood will per- finishing; and finally, availability and cost. form. Most wood used for flooring is essentially a byproduct of more expensive wood-consuming Properties affecting appearance industries (furniture manufacture, for example), so it Many different factors, from the nature of the living is usually not the highest grade of lumber. However, tree to the way the lumber is sawed, affect the way it is quite economical in comparison. the finished floor will look. This publication provides an overview of the HEARTWOOD, SAPWOOD: Heartwood is the older, mechanical and physical properties of wood, followed harder, central portion of a tree. It usually contains by more detailed information on several species used deposits of various materials that frequently give it a in flooring. In selecting the species described, the darker color than sapwood. It is denser, less permeable aim has been to offer a fair sampling of some of and more durable than the surrounding sapwood. today’s most popular woods. Other species may be Sapwood is the softer, younger, outer portion of a included in later editions of this publication. tree that lies between the cambium (formative layer Note: The samples chosen to illustrate each just under the bark) and the heartwood. It is more species were selected to be as representative as permeable, less durable and usually lighter in color possible. However, there are many variations than the heartwood. within each species, and the methods used in The relative amounts of heartwood and sapwood sanding and finishing also affect the final appear- in a flooring batch may affect the way it accepts ance of a given species. Also, the samples were stain and finish and, therefore, the finished appear- photographed only a few days after being sanded ance of the floor. In general, quartersawn and rift- and finished. Some species, such as domestic sawn flooring will contain less sapwood than cherry, will change color significantly over time plainsawn flooring (see “Types of saw cut,” next (see page 8). Therefore, the appearance of any page), and will tend to have a straighter grain and installation may vary from the samples shown in more uniform appearance. Heartwood also is more this publication. dimensionally stable than sapwood, so flooring with a high percentage of heartwood will shrink and swell The character of wood less than flooring that is mostly sapwood. As a flooring material, wood is superior to vinyl or WOOD GRAIN AND TEXTURE: “Grain” and “texture” carpet, both practically and aesthetically. A solid are loosely used to describe similar properties of wood floor is more than a covering; it adds strength wood. Grain is often used in reference to annual and stability to the floor system. A one-inch thick- growth rings, as in “fine” or “coarse” grain; it also is ness of wood has the same insulating value as 15 used to indicate the direction of fibers, as in straight, inches of concrete. Wood is durable and long-lasting spiral and curly grain. The direction of the grain, as — occasional sanding and refinishing essentially well as the amount of figuring in the wood, can affect results in a brand-new floor. Wood floors don’t retain the way it is sanded and sawed. mildew or absorb dust, simplifying cleaning. Grain also is described as being either “open” or Perhaps the most appealing characteristics of “closed,” referring to the relative size of the pores, which wood flooring, though, are its attractive appearance affects the way a wood accepts stain and finishes. © 2004 NATIONAL WOOD FLOORING ASSOCIATION 3 NATIONAL WOOD FLOORING ASSOCIATION TECHNICAL PUBLICATION No. A200 Texture usually refers to the finer structure of the slope in a right-handed direction for several years, in wood, rather than to the annual rings. It is some- a left-handed direction for several years, back to times used to combine the concepts of density and right-handed, and so on. A high degree of interlocked degree of contrast between spring wood and summer grain may make a wood difficult to machine. wood in the annual growth rings. TYPES OF SAW CUT: Lumber is either plainsawn, quartersawn or riftsawn. Wood grain terminology Plainsawing is the most common and least expen- Annual rings: Most species grown in temperate cli- sive method of sawing; most wood flooring is cut this mates produce visible annual growth rings that show way. Plainsawn lumber is obtained by making the the difference in density and color between wood first saw cut on a tangent to the circumference of the formed early and that formed late in the growing sea- log and remaining cuts son. The inner part of the growth ring, formed first, is parallel to the first. This called “spring wood”; the outer part, formed later in method is the most eco- the season, is called “summer wood.” nomical, because it pro- Spring wood is characterized by cells having rela- vides the widest boards tively large cavities and thin walls. Summer wood and results in the least cells have smaller cavities and thicker walls, and waste. consequently are more dense than those in spring Since most of the lum- wood. The growth rings, when exposed by conven- ber produced by plainsaw- tional sawing methods, provide the grain or charac- ing is flat-grained, with teristic pattern of the wood. The distinguishing some vertical-grained wood features among the various species results in part included, plainsawn lumber from differences in growth-ring formation. And will tend to contain more within species, natural variations in growth ensure variation within and among the unique character and boards than quartersawn beauty of each piece of lumber, in which nearly all of the wood is vertical- wood. grained. Also, since flat-grained wood is less dimen- Figure: The pattern pro- sionally stable than vertical-grained, plainsawn lumber duced in a wood surface will tend to expand and contract more across the width by annual growth rings, of the boards than quartersawn lumber. rays, knots and deviations Other physical differences to consider when choos- from regular grain. ing plainsawn lumber rather than quartersawn: Medullary Rays: Medullary • Figure patterns resulting from the annual rings rays extend radially from and some other types of figures are usually brought the core of the tree toward out more conspicuously by plainsawing. the bark. They vary in • Shakes and pitch pockets, when present, extend height from a few cells in through fewer boards. some species, to four or In quartersawing, lumber is produced by first more inches in the oaks; they’re responsible for the quartering the log and then sawing perpendicular to flake effect common in quartersawn lumber in cer- the growth rings. Quartersawing produces relatively tain species. narrow boards, nearly all vertical-grained, and cre- Flat Grain: Easily recognized by its parabolic ates more waste, making quartersawn lumber more (arched) effect. Lumber is considered “flat-grained” expensive than plainsawn. However, much quarter- when the annual growth rings make an angle of less sawn wood is obtained by culling the vertical-grained than 45 degrees with the wide surface of the board. wood that naturally results from plainsawing.
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