Description:Red Oak is North America�s 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.