White Oak Rift And Quarter Sawn Flooring

White oak rift and quarter sawn wide plank flooring is a great choice for this house both for its stability and its style.

White oak rift and quarter sawn flooring. Rift quarter sawn oak provides a beautiful floor and combine its unique characteristics with our milling of white oak and this is the resulting beautiful flooring. Quarter sawn white oak has a long tradition of use in both furniture and in flooring. While white oak and red oak are the most popular options we can also mill quarter sawn and rift sawn in walnut cherry ash and sapele a tropical african species. So this extra time does contribute to the additional cost of rift quartered.

If you are staining the floor dark this should be a no brainer. Select rift quartered red oak hardwood flooring 2. Our floors are manufactured by nwfa certified mills and milled from kiln dried lumber for greater stability and quality. Making woca samples on 8 rift and quarter sawn white oak flooring basketweave pattern.

3 1 4 4 5 6. Hurst hardwoods offers a full selection of 5 white oak rift and quartered rift only quartered only and live sawn hardwood flooring options in various grades. Quartersawn white oak has a more consistent grain pattern than plain sawn timber with more rays or flecks in the grain pattern than rift sawn timber. You ll likely receive planks in varying widths with these options however whereas white and red oak can be milled at a consistent width of your choosing.

Clear rq white oak compared to a s b red oak rift quarter sawn is significant. Quartersawn white oak is cut by first sawing the timber into quarters and then slicing each quarter like a loaf of bread at an angle to the surface of the timber. Installation white oak is hard and strong works fairly easily glues well and takes stain extremely well. While not a huge number when 4 4 white oak rift quartered takes 34 days to dry and plain sawn takes 30 days those extra days represent a cost to the kiln in terms of days it could be drying something else.

Quarter sawn white oak flooring makes for an exceptionally durable and beautiful plank floor. We also offer these products in many long length options. The white oak tree grows straight and to magnificent heights within the forest. This flooring is mostly quarter sawn but will have some rift sawn planks in the mix.

We specialize in quarter sawn rift and rift quartered white oak flooring. The overwhelming majority of the population cannot tell the difference between white oak red oak especially when stained. In our region of northwest pennsylvania you will. We offer almost all of your white oak selections with options to upgrade to longer lengths including 3 to 10 and 6 to 12 length options.