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Shedua

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:31:43 +0000

Scientific name:
Daniella thurifera

Other Common Names:
Daniellia
Eyhedua
Fara
Faro
Gum Copal
Incenso
Nsou
Ogea
Oziya

The tree reaches a height of 100 to 150 ft or more; boles straight, clear, cylindrical 50 to 100 ft in length; trunk diameters 4 to 7 ft usually unbuttressed The species has a shallowly interlocked grain, is lustrous, and is fairly coarse and somewhat gummy in texture.

Weight:
Basic specific gravity (ovendry weight/green volume) about 0.40; air-dry density 31 pcf.

Uses:
flooring, joinery, paneling, vaneer, and furniture components. Core stock for plywood, joinery, general millwork, furniture components, boxes and crates, a decorative veneer can be produced from selected logs. Gum exudates from cracks and wounds in the trunk are used to make a varnish (West African Gum Copal).

General Characteristics:
The sapwood of shedua is white to straw colored, while the heartwood is light golden brown to reddish-brown in color. The species has a shallowly interlocked grain, is lusterous, and is fairly coarse and somewhat gummy in texture.

Working Properties:
Shedua only slightly dulls cutting surfaces when sawing. Glue and nails hold good with shedua flooring. This species sands and polishes fairly well after filling but can mare easier than some species under heavy traffic. Works easily with hand and machine tools, quartersawn material tends to tear in planing and shaping, produces a woolly finish unless tools are kept sharp, nails and glues well.

Drying and Shrinkage:
The timber is reported to dry at a fairly rapid rate, with little degrade in thicker stock.Shedua dries rapidly with little degrade resulting from the process. Kiln schedule T10-D5s (4/4); T8-D4s (8/4) US

Durability:
Shedua has little natural resistance to termites or decay, and as such should be treated as a preventative measure. Heartwood is rated as perishable and nonresistant to termites; sapwood liable to powder-post beetle attack. Liable to sap stain, log conversion should be rapid. Heartwood and inner sapwood resistant to moderately resistant to preservative treatments; outer sapwood is permeable.

Rosewood

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:12:32 +0000

Scientific name:
Pterocarpus indicus

Other Common Names:
Malabar
Shisham
Sitsal
Sonokeling

It is a major commercial species of the Solomon Islands. Small to medium sized trees found throughout the lowland forests of the South West Pacific region, it attains large commercial proportions in the Solomon Islands and has been heavily exploited in the past. One of the finest furniture and cabinet woods on world markets due to its excellent working and finishing properties. The wood, when left lying in water, turns the water an iridescent blue. The wood can vary in density and hardness.

Weight:
density 525-625 kg/m (12% m.c)

Uses:
flooring, finely turned articles, gun stocks, rifle butts anddecorative sliced veneer. It is prized for carving local artefacts and in making ceremonial hand drums. It has good acoustic and tonal qualities, making it suitable for musical instruments.

General Characteristics:
The colors are golden-brown, yellow-brown, red-brown to blood red. The texture moderately coarse and uneven.. The timber variesin colour from yellowish-brown to golden-brown through to red-brown or sometimes a blood red colour. The grain is usually interlocked but not severely so; sometimes wavy. Produces a ribbon or banded figure on quarter-sawn faces and a cathedral-likefigure on back-sawn faces. It has a pleasant, persistent, fragrant odour.

Working Properties:
Readily sawn and excellent planning; some care required where grain irregularities occur. It nails well, also Glues well with all adhesives. Excellent Finishing; sands to a very fine finish and produces a high polish with golden luster.

Drying and Shrinkage:
in General, it has Excellent drying properties. The denser (redder) timbers take longer to dry than the pale-coloured yellowish timbers. Very low in movement and shrinkage.

Durability:
Highly durable and resistant to pressure impregnation.

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Pradoo

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:56:47 +0000

Scientific name:
Pterocarpus macrocarpus

Other Common Names:
Burma Padauk
Mai Pradoo
Pterocarpus

The origin of this wood is Southeast Asia. As a flooring option, pradoo is a very hard and durable wood. It is nearly identical in hardness to santos mahogany’s ranking of 2200, is just under fifty percent harder than hard maple, and a little bit more than two thirds harder than red oak.

Weight:
Specific Gravity:0.586 green and 0.568 air dry. Moderately heavy,40 lb/ft3 (640 KG/m3 ) air dry and 55 lb/ft3 (880 KG/m3 ) green.

Uses:
flooring, chests, rustic furniture, mine timbers, and bedroom suites.

General Characteristics:
The sapwood of pradoo is grayish-white while the heartwood is yellowish-red to golden brown in color after exposure. The species has an interlocked, ribbon-like grain and is moderately coarse in texture. Pradoo has a medium to high luster.

Working Properties:
Pradoo can be moderately difficult to saw properly. Nailing can be difficult in this species, and as such should be pre-bored beforehand. Glue holds somewhat well with pradoo flooring. This wood sands very well and yields a naturally high polish.

Drying and Shrinkage:
Pradoo is easily dried with little resulting degrade in the wood. Shrinkage from green to oven-dry is approximately1.5% radially and 2.5% tangentially.

Durability:
As a flooring option, pradoo is a very hard and durable wood.Pradoo is very resistant to termite attack. The wood is reported to have a faint spice-like odor.

Turpentine

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:58:32 +0000

Scientific name:
Syncarpia glomulifer

Other Common Names:
spirit of turpentine
oil of turpentine
wood turpentine
gum turpentine

The word turpentine is formed (via French and Latin) from the Greek word terebinthine, the name of a species of tree, the terebinth tree, from whose sap the spirit was originally distilled.Turpentine is an organic solvent, and thus poses many of the same hazards as do other such substances. Its vapor can irritate the skin and eyes, damage the lungs and respiratory system, as well as the central nervous system when inhaled, and cause renal failure when ingested, among other things. It is extremely flammable. In early 19th Century America, turpentine was sometimes burned in lamps as a cheap alternative to whale oil. It was most commonly used for outdoor lighting, due to its strong odor.

Weight:
Density (average) 1050 kg/m³ – Green (GD)^;950kg/m³ – Dry (ADD)

Uses:
Marine piling (the bark is often left on for some extra protection against Teredo borers but it is difficult to ensure long-term retention of the bark so the merit of the practice may be questionable), piles, sleepers, shipbuilding, wharf and bridge decking, bearings, flooring, domestic decking, panelling, building framework

General Characteristics:
Heartwood is reddish brownSapwood distinctly paler, Texture fine and even and Grain interlocked. Its general appearance is rather similar to that of the redder types of brush box. Sometimes it has discoloured dark brown heartwood, which has a lower resistance to impact forces but otherwise seems satisfactory.

Working Properties:
High silica content. Satisfactory for steam bending. Not easy to glue. The extractives produce dark brown stains on alkaline surfaces, such as concrete and fibre cement. Turpentine wood dulls tools rather easily due to its hardness and density. If you are nailing the wood, it may require pre-drilling holes to prevent splitting. Once worked, this product polishes to a very attractive high finish.

Drying and Shrinkage:
Slow in drying; This species requires time and care to dry properly. Tangential surfaces may check. Some collapse is common.

Durability:
Turpentine wood is durable and has a natural resistance to termites.

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Santos Mahogany

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:28:54 +0000

Scientific name:
Myroxylon peruiferum

Other Common Names:
Cabreúva, Cabreúva-amarela, Cabreúva-parda, Cabriúna,
Cabriúna-preta, Cabriúva, Cachaceiro, Catingueira, Cobaré,
Conduru-de-sangue, Gabriúva, Jataúba, Miroé, Óleo-cabureíba,
Óleo-de-bálsamo, Óleo-de-caboreíba, Óleo-de-caboreira,
Óleo-de-caboreíva, Óleo-de-vermelho, Óleo-pardo, Pau-bálsamo,
Pau-de-bálsamo, Pau-de-óleo, Pau-de-óleo-verdadeiro,
Pau-óleo-verdadeiro, Quina-morada, Quinaquina,

This species matures in a extensive range from southern Mexico southward through Central American and going along to Argentina. It’s an highly best-selling wood in the flooring world. Heartwood reddish brown becoming deep red or somewhat purplish upon exposure; fairly consistent to striped; sharply demarcated from the white sapwood; it has a beautiful spicy scent. The tree is known for its yield of balsam used in perfumes, harvested primarily in El Salvador.

Weight:
approx. density of 58 lb/ft³.

Uses:
flooring, furniture, and veneers

General Characteristics:
The sapwood of Santos Mahogany is pale brown while the heartwood is purplish-red in color. The species has an interlocked grain and possesses a medium grade texture.

Working Properties:
It is described to be moderately difficult to work but can be polished off smoothly with a high natural polish. Though non-siliceous, there is more than the regular dulling of cutters. This species sands well and takes a good finish.

Drying and Shrinkage:
Shrinkage from green to ovendry: radial 3.8%; tangential 6.2%; volumetric 10.0%. it can take some time to dry properly but does have good stability characteristics once dry.

Durability:
Santos Mahogany is one of the most hard and durable woods, over sixty percent harder than white oak, about seventy percent harder than red oak, and is over. Considered a strong, anti-fungal wood.

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Eastern White Pine

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:09:25 +0000

Scientific name:
Pinus strobes

Other Common Names:
American white pine, American yellow pine, apple pine, ayacahuite vidriosa, balsam pine, bor vajmutov, borovice tuha, Canadian white pine, Canadian yellow pine, chiapas pine, chiapas white pine, Chiapas-pijn, chiapas-tall, cork pine, eastern pine, eastern white pine, kahikatea, Minnesota soft white pine, Minnesota white pine, New England pine, northern pine, northern white pine, Ottawa pine, Ottowa white pine, pattern pine, pin baliveau, pin blanc, pin blanc canadian, pin de Chiapas, pin du lord, pin jaune, pin potiron, pin Weymouth, pino ayacahuite, pino canadiense, pino di Chiapas, pino stobo, pino Weymouth, pumpkin pine, Quebec pine, Quebec yellow pine, sapling pine, seidenkiefer, silver pine, simafenyo, soft pine, soft cork white pine, soft pine, soft white pine, sosny wejmutka, spruce pine, strobe, strobo, strobus, tonawanda pine, Weymouth pine, Weymouth-pijn, Weymouth-pijn, weymouthpijn, Weymouths kiefer, weymouthsden, weymouthsfohre, weymouthskiefer, Weymouth-tall, weymouth-tall, Weymut-tall, weymut-tall, white pine, white soft pine, Wisconsin white pine, yellow pine.

Eastern white pine grows to heights of 100 feet with a diameter of 3 to 6 feet. Historically, it has grown to heights of 200 feet with diameters of 6 feet. Current national champions are taller than 140 feet. Most of the large trees had been logged prior to the late 1800’s. The genus Pinus is composed of about 100 species native to temperate and tropical regions of the world. Wood of pine can be separated microscopically into the white, red and yellow pine groups. The word pinus is the classical Latin name and strobus is the Latin name for pine cone, from the Greek strobos (whirling around) and strobilos (pine cone). The species Pinus stobus is composed of two varieties; the typical Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus var. strobus L.) and Chiapas White Pine (Pinus strobus var. chiapensis Martinez [P. chiapensis (Martinez) Andresen]), native to the mountains of southern Mexico and Guatemala.

Weight:
approximately 26 pounds per cubic foot

Uses:
The bark is used to produce white pine tar, an antiseptic and expectorant. The wood is used for furniture, patterns, matches, boxes, sashes, doors, trim, caskets and toys. The tree is a popular Christmas tree.

General Characteristics:
The heartwood is a light brown, sometimes with a reddish tinge, turning darker on exposure. The sapwood is, tinged with yellow. It has a uniform texture.

Working Properties:
it is easily worked with tools and straight grained and has a high ability to stay in place. It has medium strength values, is easily worked and takes stains, glue and finishes well. It also has good nail-holding ability. It is light weight, moderately soft, moderately weak, not stiff, and low in shock resistance

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Chestnut

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:43:57 +0000

Scientific name:
Castanea sativa

Other Common Names:
Spanish chestnut
American chestnut
Chinkapin
Sweet chestnut

Grows in southwest Europe, North Africa, and western Asia. Chestnut, which is equally attractive in fiber and markings, has a color quality that is even better, and is plentiful, easily obtained and very reasonable as to cost. While it lacks something of the stateliness and durability of oak, chestnut is even more friendly because of the mellowness and richness of its color, which under very simple treatment takes on a luminous quality that seems to fill the whole room with a soft glow like that of the misty color that is radiated from trees in autumn.

Chestnut takes even more kindly than oak to the fuming process, because it contains a greater percentage of tannin and the texture of the wood itself is softer and more open. But unless a deep tone of brown is desired, fuming may be dispensed with, because the wood is so much richer in the elements from which color can be produced that a delightful effect may be obtained merely by applying a light stain of nut brown or soft gray, under which the natural color of the wood appears as an undertone.

Uses:
Used for casks, coffins, poles, turned walking sticks, stakes, umbrella handles, furniture, kitchen utensils, bowls, and veneer.

General Characteristics:
The wood remains smooth under friction and is reported to have no odor. The sapwood of chestnut is white to light brown, while the heartwood is grayish-brown to brown in color. The species has a straight, sometimes spiraled grain and is fairly coarse in texture.

Working Properties:
Works fairly easily with hand or machine tools and has good screw and nail holding properties. Glues well and stains and polishes to an excellent finish. Natural acidity tends to cause blue-black stains when in contact with iron.

Drying and Shrinkage:
Chestnut is diffuclt and time consuming to dry properly, stays in place readily and is so easy to dry that the chances of getting thoroughly dry lumber are much greater than they would be if oak were used.

Durability:
Medium weight with low crushing strength, very low stiffness and shock resistance, moderate decay resistance and poor stability in use.

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Cameron

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:43:46 +0000

Scientific name:
Samanea pedicellaris

Other Common Names:
Alazano, Camaron, Conejo,
Degame, Guayabo, Harino,
Lemonwood, Surra, Aboonkini,
Alawatta-moelerie, Asau,
Baboen-banjie, Boire la morue,
Bois ara, Bois cerf, Bougouni,
Cambui, Cedre d’argent, Hoeroewassa,
Kabana, Plokonie, Prefontaine rouge,
Proekoenie, Red manariballi, Sera,
Tamalin, Tamarinde plokonie

The species occurs in the Guianas, and extends through the lower Amazon region of Brazil to Rio de Janeiro.Trees in French Guiana are described as beautiful with ascending branches, a cylindrical or irregular stem that are sometimes up to 48 inches (120 cm) in diameter and 90 to 100 feet (27 to 30 m) to the first of the large branches.

Uses:
Construction, Furniture , Furniture components, Furniture squares or stock, General carpentry, Interior construction, Interior trim.

General Characteristics:
The sapwood of cameron is light brown to white, while the heartwood is olive-brown in color.The wood remains smooth under friction and is reported to have no odor. The species has an irregular, interlocked grain and is fine and uniform in texture.

Working Properties:
The timber works well but radial surfaces are often difficult to work to a smooth finish. It is difficult in routing and recessing; easy to saw Cameron cuts rather easily and cleanly. This species sands easily and takes a good finish.

Drying and Shrinkage:
Cameron can take some time to dry properly but does have good stability characteristics once dry.

Durability:
Cameron is somewhat durable in its exposed form with regards to decay.

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Solid vs Engineered hardwood Floors

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:21:59 +0000

There are a lot of differences in flooring when it concerns wood. But do you know what the differences are? We understand how serious you are about getting Hardwood Flooring in your home or office, and that’s why it is crucial that you know the key differences in each flooring type. Looking for the perfect floor can be a puzzling process, but with a little guidance you should be all right. Thus, we would like to help make that decision easier by offering some basic information about your wood flooring options.

In today’s Hardwood Flooring Industry there are two main characters mad of Hardwood, both very similar in some aspects, yet very different in other. We are talking about the Engineered Hardwood Flooring and the Solid Hardwood Flooring. If you are looking for a new hardwood floor, you probably already heard about those two kinds of hardwood flooring.

If you’re worried about making the right hardwood flooring choice, you aren’t alone. Many people ask the differences between solid and engineered hardwood and which one they should use.

Actually, this information will bring a large part in your decision on your wood choice. This information only made to explain the differences in structure, manufacturing, species and installing methods between the Solid Hardwood Floors and the Engineered Hardwood Floors. Here some criteria which differentiate and show pluses and minuses of them:

WHERE THEY’RE INSTALLED

First, perhaps the most important decision is where in your house do you plan on installing the hardwood floor? Solid Hardwood must only be installed on a plywood subfloor at or above ground level. Solid hardwood can’t be installed (or isn’t recommended) in high moisture rooms, like the kitchen, bath and basement.

This is because the higher moisture content in the air – or even on the floor – can cause the wood to ripple or buckle, which will destroy the flooring. Unlike solid hardwood flooring, engineered flooring can be installed in any room that you choose; it can withstand moisture due to the layers of flooring that withstand buckling and rippling.

Engineered flooring can also be installed over radiant floor heating, which can keep your feet warm during those cold winter months. If you are looking to install a hardwood floor directly to a cement slab, below ground level, or in a humid location, you should consider an Engineered Hardwood floor.

SIZE

Solid wood flooring is the traditional style of wood flooring. It is milled straight from the tree and not engineered into a constructed board, which gives a true feeling of a natural floor. Solid Hardwood Flooring: A solid piece of hardwood, typically 3/4″ or 19mm thick, although some do come in 3/8″ (10mm) or 5/16″ (8mm) thicknesses.

Engineered Hardwood flooring: are several plies of wood that are glued and laminated together to form a wood plank. Range in thickness from 1/4″ to 5/8 inch. Engineered hardwood flooring is generally thinner than solid hardwood. That means it can be used in many remodeling projects where a solid ¾ inch solid floor would create a height problem.

HOW THEY’RE MANUFACTURED

The first and the most important difference between solid floors and engineered floors is the way they are being manufactured. Solid Hardwood Floor is being manufactured from a solid piece of wood, which result a solid piece of hardwood plank – one solid material all the way, from sawing the wood until installing the floors, it’s all one piece.

On the other hand, Engineered Hardwood Floors contain only one thin layer of real hardwood – the visible top layer. Engineered Flooring is made of a wood layers of softwood like plywood or High Density Fibers (HDF), all glue down together with pressure, what result with a multi-layer plank with top layer of real hardwood.

The 3 layers are sandwiched together to create a compact and stable board. Each layer is laid in the opposite direction in a ‘cross-ply’ construction as wood naturally expands across the width, and not the length of the board. This creates a plank that expands as little as possible and makes fitting easier.

A small gap of 8-10mm is still required at the edge of the room however, to avoid expansion problems. They should be fitted on top of a thin underlay, not normally more than 4mm. The top layer is the decorative wood you have chosen for your home or office.

INSTALLATION

Most of the Engineered Hardwood Flooring can be installed using the glue down method or by nailing or stapling it down to another subfloor. Engineered Flooring is compensated of several plys of wood; like ply wood but with a nice veneer top. The wood veneer and all the layers of plywood base are glued and dried under intense pressure to guarantee a strong bond.

This product, a hybrid of plywood and hardwood, can now be glued directly to the cement slab. The last step is to add stain if needed, and add a finish. There is no need to install a plywood subfloor, generally it might make more financial sense to go with an engineered wood on a slab just because it takes less time and thus less money.

Another advantage of the engineered hardwood is the ability to install it straight on cement and concrete slabs. The installation time may be fast and you could have use of your room back quicker rather than later

First Installation of solid wood requires sanding, finishing and coating, a process that increases the time you are moved from your home or office. Solid Hardwood flooring must Solid Wood Floors must be nailed down to other subfloor, like plywood for example and it just can’t be done onto concrete surfaces.

So you truly need two floors, the bottom floor and top floor. Now depending on if you have a raised foundation or a slab foundation will dictate how the floor is laid. A slab foundation will first need a subfloor nailed into the concrete. The glue-down system just doesn’t let the solid wood enough freedom to expand and contract, something that may cause crack and defects on the floor.

Bamboo Flooring is one type of Solid Hardwood Flooring that can be glue down like engineered. Solid wood can be sanded and refinished many times to cover and conceal scratches or imperfections the whole way down to the tongue and groove of the boards.

That could be as much as ¼” or about one third of the thickness of the board, well that’s a lot of sanding. But, most engineered floors can be sanded too, particularly if you choose one with a thicker saw cut face. Refinishing, thus commonly becomes a secondary consideration in the selection process.

DURABILITY

Single great difference between Engineered Flooring and Solid Floors, when discussing long life standing is the refinishing issue. Solid Wood usually goes with a 3/4″ inch. Thickness, what let you to re-sand it and refinish it for more than five times. This ensures you a product that can last over 100 years! If you have children or pets, then you would like to think the durability factor of solid hardwood flooring in your determination

In Engineered Flooring this subject vary, and depend totally on the thickness of the top hardwood layer. We really recommend you to stay away from engineered flooring products that have a very thin layer. It will be very hard to repair or to change this floor to something else in the future. So if you are considering about the far future, solid wood will be a better choice for you, though today’s engineered floors can lasts for man many years likewise.

PRICE

Deciding between engineered vs. solid hardwood flooring is a decision that should be made carefully. In some cases, your budget will be the determining factor, but if at all possible, it is better to let other considerations make your decision for you.

You may guess that engineered hardwood flooring is less expensive than solid hardwood because there is only thin piece of real hardwood at the engineered floors. That’s true on some cases, particularly when we are talking about wide wood planks, where a lot of expensive hardwood is being used to create solid wood planks. But then, when talking about narrower wood planks, the solid hardwood will likely be a little bit cheaper, since the costs of manufacturing engineered wood floors come about.

The price of both Engineered Hardwood Flooring and Solid Hardwood Flooring also depends on the wood species that is being used. There are more expensive species like the walnut, or the American Cherry and the Brazilian cherry for example, and there are the less expensive species like the Red Oak and the White Oak, or the flooring. Typically engineered hardwood flooring will cost you less than solid hardwood flooring for the same look because less of the valuable tree is used than with solid wood.

Also, freight costs are lower because engineered flooring is lighter in weight and therefore less costly to transport. These factors also help make engineered flooring friendly to the environment.

DESIGN

Nowadays, the Engineered Hardwood Flooring is so improved, therefore you are able to find any species, with any stain, with variable width and thickness so you can choose precisely what fits for you. Cheers to the fact that there is only thin layer of hardwood at the engineered floors, manufacturers can supply us expensive wood species (like exotic wood species), or wider hardwood planks at affordable prices. You will find that engineered wood is available in various different designs and finishes. Here are some examples

3 Strip – This is where the board has been divided into 3 strips to create a busier look. This design is normally the cheapest as all the wastage from a piece of wood can be used.
2 Strip – This is the same as the 3 strip but has only been divided into 2 strips.
Plank – This is where the board has been manufactured into 1 single plank of wood. This is most popular in larger rooms where a plank effect will open up the space.

Solid hardwood flooring comes in many different wood varieties, including exotic woods. It’s slightly more expensive than engineered wood flooring, but if you are a diehard wood enthusiast, then you may want to stick with solid hardwood flooring. You can find a lot of new species, stained with many different colors – it is basically your taste and preference.

STABILITY

Engineered wood is renowned for its stability and ease of fitting. A solid wood floor is usually less stable than an engineered wood floor. It is referred to moisture and expansion related to that moisture. When you get climate changes in your home, which you absolutely will, wood flooring expands and contracts. With solid wood flooring, it generally expands and contracts a lot more than the engineered wood.

Engineered wood flooring is constructed to be dimensionally stable, while most solid wood floors are simply cut pieces of wood from a tree. Considering solid wood floors are cut pieces of wood and their fibers run in only one direction, there is a lot more room for expansion and contraction to occur.

With engineered wood flooring, this problem is actually significantly reduced since you will be getting a wood floor that is engineered in a cross-grained manner to minimize any expansion and contraction that a piece of solid wood will have.

AT LAST

We’re not stating that solid wood floors are bad or of lesser quality, but here are some facts you ought to know when dealing which type of wood floor to apply. Disregarding how much you spend on a solid wood floor, you are most expected to get one that will have characteristics as we described before. In some cases, with certain species, you may have no option because solid wood is that entire particular species is available in.

But, if you are looking at Oak, Maple, Cherry, Walnut, Brazilian Cherry, Teak or one of the other more popular species, you can potentially find it in an engineered floor, and it will likely be a better value. Engineered wood floors are also very flexible in terms of installation methods. They can be installed using staple down, glue down, or free float methods.

The Engineered Hardwood Flooring was made up in order to overcome some problems solid hardwood floors having difficulties with, like moisture and high humid areas. Engineered hardwood flooring is also more environmentally friendly than solid hardwood floors because the sub-surface layers are made from “junk” or “scrap” wood, not the ornamental wood.

It saves more forests because each tree of the wanted ornamental wood can go further than it does with solid wood flooring. Once you resolved, and understand what your choices are, the only matter to do is to go on your with taste and your heart.

Cabreuva

admin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:02:14 +0000

Scientific name:
Myroxylon balsamum

Other Common Names: Balsamo
Palo de balsamo (Spanish America generally)
Cedro chino
Nabal (Mexico)
Chirraca
Sandalo (Costa Rica)
Tache, Tolu (Colombia)
Estoraque (Peru)
Cabriuva vermelha (Brazil)
Incienso, Quina (Argentina)
Santos Mahogany

Weight:
Basic specific gravity (ovendry weight/green volume) 0.74 to 0.81; air- dry density 54 to 62 Pcf; approx. density of 58 lb/ft³.

Uses:
Flooring, furniture, interior trim, turnery, railroad crossties. The tree is well known for its yield of balsam used in perfumes.

General Characteristics:
Heartwood reddish brown becoming deep red or somewhat purplish upon exposure; fairly uniform to striped; sharply demarcated from the white sapwood. Luster medium to high; texture medium; grain is typically interlocked; without distinctive taste, but may have a pleasant spicy scent.

Working Properties:
It is described to be fairly hard to work but can be finished smoothly with a high natural polish. Though non-siliceous, there is more than the usual dulling of cutters. This species sands easily and takes a good finish.

Drying and Shrinkage:
Cabreuva can take some time to dry properly but does have good stability characteristics once dry.Shrinkage from green to ovendry: radial 3.8%; tangential 6.2%; volumetric 10.0%. These values are very low for a wood of this high density.

Durability:
The heartwood is reported to be highly resistant to attack by decay fungi. Both sapwood and heartwood are highly resistant to preservative treatments.

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