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2. Choose the Right Hardwood Floor For You With These Tips - AOL

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   The preferred choice of designers, solid hardwood flooring can’t be beat for looks, but costs can range from $8 to $25 per square foot, with most homeowners paying on average around $16 per ...

3. Janka hardness test - Wikipedia

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   For hardwood flooring, the test usually requires an 80 mm × 150 mm (3 in × 6 in) sample with a thickness of at least 6–8 mm, and the most commonly used test is the ASTM D1037. When testing wood in lumber form, the Janka test is always carried out on wood from the tree trunk (known as the heartwood), and the standard sample (according to ...

4. Wood flooring - Wikipedia

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   A number of proprietary features for solid wood floors are available. Many solid woods come with grooves cut into the back of the wood that run the length of each plank, often called 'absorption strips,' that are intended to reduce cupping. Solid wood floors are mostly manufactured 0.75 inches (19 mm) thick with a tongue-and-groove for ...

5. Hardwood - Wikipedia

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   Beech is a popular hardwood. Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests. [1] In temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen. Hardwood (which comes from angiosperm trees) contrasts with softwood (which is from ...

6. List of woods - Wikipedia

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   Hickory (Carya) Pecan (Carya illinoinensis) Pignut hickory (Carya glabra) Shagbark hickory (Carya ovata) Shellbark hickory (Carya laciniosa) Hornbeam (Carpinus spp.) American hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) Ipê (Handroanthus spp.) Iroko, African teak (Milicia excelsa) Ironwood. Balau (Shorea spp.) American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana)

7. Wood finishing - Wikipedia

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   Staining should enhance the appearance of wood by reducing colour variation between and within sapwood and heartwood. It also provides a way of giving bland looking woods such as poplar, the appearance of prized furniture woods such as ebony, mahogany or walnut. Wood can be stained using dyes or pigmented finishes. These finishes are available ...