Timber flooring species
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We had the kitchen in and lived with concrete floors at first, til the boys got older and we could afford the timber floors. When it came to looking around at all sorts of timbers, we kept coming back to sheoak, so went with it.
Ash.
Sheoaks along with silky oak and radiata pine are among the biggest plantation timbers in Oz
Hi Guys I have attached a photo of my timber flooring. Can any one guess what timber it is?? The reason why am asking you guys to guess is that it come out different to what i thought it should.
Hi Guys I have attached a photo of my timber flooring. Can any one guess what timber it is?? The reason why am asking you guys to guess is that it come out different to what i thought it should.
That looks amazing.
Blackbutt ? Stringy bark ?
Great to see you are putting the skirting boards on after.
Yes they are Blackbutt. Not too sure if your monitor shows this but the floors have come are lightish caramel brown colour.
I thought they would come a littlre more blonde.
Hey Jilamint, thanks.
Yes they are Blackbutt. Not too sure if your monitor shows this but the floors have come are lightish caramel brown colour.
I thought they would come a littlre more blonde.
Yes they are Blackbutt. Not too sure if your monitor shows this but the floors have come are lightish caramel brown colour.
I thought they would come a littlre more blonde.
You don't seem disappointed though ... do you ?
I like the brown - it adds a real earthy warmth to the room.
i am ok with it. Its my partner lol. She choose the timber. She thought it woudl come out lighter.
Looks pretty spot on for blackbutt. Wrong choice if she wanted a light blonde.
she choose the species too lol
Quote:
"There seems to be a lot of conjecture about 'hardness'
Hardness rating: the hardness rating of a timber species is measured by the Janka Test. This is a standard test which measures the penetration into the timber of a common load and projectile. The results relate to a hardness capacity of the material and are expressed in kN. This information is useful where the timber may be subject to potential damage from impacts e.g. a dance floor. There are 2 sets of published figures; one for 'Green' or freshly felled timber and one for seasoned timber - i.e. timber with a moisture content of 12%."
Hardness rating: the hardness rating of a timber species is measured by the Janka Test. This is a standard test which measures the penetration into the timber of a common load and projectile. The results relate to a hardness capacity of the material and are expressed in kN. This information is useful where the timber may be subject to potential damage from impacts e.g. a dance floor. There are 2 sets of published figures; one for 'Green' or freshly felled timber and one for seasoned timber - i.e. timber with a moisture content of 12%."
Re Hardness, Bamboo is a great alternative to timber, strand woven bamboo has a Janka ranking of 14.
Have been offered a great price for the feature grade wide boards, but a bit nervous as I haven't seen feature grade layed. Just posted a thread to see if anyone has any pics.
I love the colourings of spotted gum, but don't like a lot of the black veiny lines you get on Marri, would these be the lines you would get on spotted gum feature? Or will it be more knots??
Thanks.
I am deciding which type of flooring to use for the top floor of our new house. We have been looking at Kempas can anyone give us feed back if this a good timber to use ?
thanks
Kempas has been popular as a flooring choice for many years but is definitely now on the decline. It really depends on whether you are after a floating engineered floor, prefinished solid or a solid raw T&G overlay floor. In Perth you will be hard pushed to find any of the large wholesalers running raw T&G Flooring anymore. The days of Malaysian/Indonesian solid floors are really over as more people turn back to Australian species. Its not to say it is not a good material but rather you need to be wary of who is importing it and unfortunately as the US$ gets high there is a lot more importing going on and some questionable quality.
Kempas as a engineered board is a better choice, you can still get 3.2 and 1 strip flooring and the quality generally will be more consistent. I prefer Kempas a couple of years ago when the colours were a mixture of lighter oranges and golden hues but most recent samples of Kempas is rather pink in colour. You will still find good suppliers of Kempas out there but you need to love the colour. If you search around I know first hand you can get many 1 strip Australian species ie Blackbutt, Jarrah, Spotted Gum, Syd Blue at around the same price.
Prefinishing solid kempas (14-19mm) is now becoming available more in the marketplace but feedback from installers is the quality can be a little hit and miss so be wary again.
Are you going to float it/ direct stick it?? being upstairs
If so what type of underlays do you have in mind?
Are you going to be going for Scotia / Skirtings?
Cheers
Also, feature grade and epoxy resin filled is more important that the species.
ooo we just ordered spotty gum select (boral classic grade) - floor will be laid 27/4-1/5 then will post photos
Looking forward to seeing those pics, we've selected the same, we're still getting through the boring paperwork stage of our build so our floors are a long way off
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