Grades Of White Oak Flooring

When harvested white oak becomes a beautiful durable and stable flooring material.

Grades of white oak flooring.

We can can pre finish your v groove or micro v groove flooring with a clear finish or you can choose one of baird brothers ten stain colors. It costs the more. At vermont plank flooring we harvest white oak trees from sustainably managed woodlots and mill them into wide board planks specifically for your project. The result is a floor of unparalleled quality and splendor.

Baird brothers premium white oak end matched flooring is carried in stock. Yes there are 2 main species of oak floors white oak and red oak and yes they are different. We offer high quality white oak flooring sourced from the finest mills in america. We have all grades available including select better 1 common character 2 common and 3 common.

You can read more about the differences between white and red oak flooring here. To f where there are shakes and splits at the end and large dead knots that have fallen out and a large variation in colour. Especially pertaining to oak hardwood flooring the 3 most commonly used grades are. Clear nofma oak is very uniform in color with very few small character marks.

Clear red oak is the best quality and most expensive red oak tig on the market. White oak raw material comes in grades from a to f. For oak flooring there are 3 main grades. Select 1 common and 2 common which is also known as rustic grade or builder s grade.

Custom flooring and tongue and groove products are available upon request. A grade is very straight and uniform with no colour variation. Select grade is generally considered the highest grade as it has the least color variation. Clear select no 1 common and no.

Both red and white oak are great choices but if i personally had to choose one over the other i d go for white oak and you ll see why below. Appearance alone determines the grades of hardwood flooring since all grades are equally strong and serviceable in any application red oak and white oak flooring grades below is the national wood flooring association nwfa grade descriptions for red oak and white oak and continuing down are the grade descriptions for other common domestic. Select oak has more color variation and more natural character marks such as small knots. Select number 1 common and number 2 common.

Under grading rules developed by nofma there are four levels of oak flooring.