Description:Red Oak is Americas most popular wood floor choice with a reddish tan color and distinctive graining.
Color Range: Red Oak offers a medium range of color variability from lighter tan tones with pinkish highlights to darker browns.
Color Change: Red Oak undergoes a medium degree of color change over time with a slight ambering of the pinkish tan brown color you get when freshly milled.
Red Oak is the species against which we compare for hardness all the other woods we offer for flooring. Red Oak is 1260 on the Janka scale.
JANKA HARDNESS, JANKA TEST: A system of rating the hardness of wood by use of a 0.444 inch diameter ball; measured in pounds required to force one half the diameter of the ball into the wood.
Whit Oak
Description: White Oak is the American classic, used widely in Mission style furniture where the distinctive rays found in the quarter sawn grain are sought.
Color Range: White Oak has a medium high degree of color variability and ranges from light tan colors to medium tan colors with a grayish cast to medium brown colors.
Color Change: White Oak undergoes a medium degree of color change, with a slight ambering over time.
White Oak is 108% as hard as red oak (1360 on the Janka scale vs.1260 for red oak)
JANKA HARDNESS, JANKA TEST: A system of rating the hardness of wood by use of a 0.444 inch diameter ball; measured in pounds required to force one half the diameter of the ball into the wood.
