As national hardwoods with over 200 subspecies, both white and red pine are popular options for hardwood floors in homes now. Red oak alone accounts for 50% of all hardwood flooring.
What makes bamboo popular is its workability with resources and its own simplicity with sanding and staining. It's often a choice for people who find a more expensive type of wood but can accomplish the same look through employing a wood stain or varnish.
Because of its grain and porous nature, red oak carries a blot very well. While white oak can also be stained, due to the tannins in the wood, it isn't advisable to use wood bleach or water-based stain. That is because it will cause the timber to discolor into a greenish or brown appearance.
The natural color of red oak is a slightly reddish tone with no serious difference between the heartwood and sapwood of the species. As it ages, it takes on a golden tone. White oak shows more defined colour between the heartwood and sapwood sections. The heartwood appears as a light brownish with a bit of a pink or light grey tint, while the sapwood gifts anywhere from a whitish to cream colour.
The variations in coloring at the heartwood and sapwood of each variety are influenced by the time of the tree as well as the environmental conditions under which it climbed.
Considering that the heartwood is the older portion of the tree it's often darker in stronger and appearance which helps it to become resistant to infection and rot.
Red oak is regarded as a benchmark for Janka evaluation, and it is a measurement system for flooring hardness. It comes in having a rating of 1290 for wood from trees grown and also 1060 for trees grown in the southern area. Floors that originates from white pine trees weighs in with a Janka rating of 1210. It is implied that the growing seasons play a part in the hardness of forests, but as you can see, the variation isn't important between the two types of flooring.
It's important to remember that when deciding on a hardwood floor, the Janka rating ought to be taken under consideration, but just as a comparison and not a final determinant. Because of the nature of wood, no matter the hardness, wood may still be scratched or dented. This evaluation system was devised to ascertain how much force is required a square inch to induce a steel ball with a diameter of 0.44″ into a piece of timber.
