Hardwood flooring materials.
Do you have a plan decorating your interior house with hard wood as material for the room floor? Do not miss the trends in hardwood flooring, You must know what are the hardest wood kind that usually used for flooring materials.
Here are the list of hardest wood for flooring materials data.
Hard wood Janka hardness number (greater the Janka number, more the hardness):
Lignum Vitae 4500
Curupy 3880
Brazilian Tiger Mahogany 3840
Patagonian Rosewood 3840
Walnut, Brazilian 3680
Lapacho 3670
Camaru (Brazilian Teak) 3540
Cherry, Bolivian 3190
Cherry, Caribbean 3100
Bloodwood 2900
Red Walnut 2450
Peruvian Cherry 2350
Brazilian Cherry 2350
Mesquite 2345
Rosewood, Caribbean 2300
Santos Mahogany 2200
In contrast, White Ash has a Janka number of 1320, Maple has a Janka number of 1450 and Red Oak has a Janka number of 1260.
Additional notes for hard wood flooring:
- Soft wood can be hardened to some degree by the application of polyurethene finishes.
- Hard Wood is nearly always much more expensive than the soft and medium-grade woods.
- Hard wood is more difficult to saw, drill, and nail than other woods, Requiring more time and labor and, again, more money.
- The Janka hardness test measures the hardness of wood. It involves measuring the force required to embed an 11.28 mm (0.444 in) steel ball into wood to half its diameter. This method was chosen so that the result would leave an indention 100 mm² (0.16 sq in) in size. It is one of the best measures of the ability of a wood species to withstand denting and wear. It is also a good indicator of how hard a species is to saw or nail. (wiki)
