Hardwood Flooring Services in Hartford, CT

• Floor Installation
• Finishing Repair
• Sanding
• Staining (For Existing/New Floors)
• Luxury Vinyl Plank Flooring
• Wide Plank Flooring
• Custom Pattern Work

It is the most commonly used of all the hardwoods. The heartwood and sapwood are similar, with the sapwood lighter in color. Most pieces have a reddish tone slightly redder than white oak.

Heartwood is light tan to dark brown; sapwood is creamy white. It is similar in appearance to white oak but more yellowish.

Heartwood is creamy white to light reddish brown. Sapwood is pale to creamy white.

Heartwood is yellow after cutting and turns deep pinkish tan to warm reddish brown within weeks due to high resin content. Sapwood remains yellow, with occasional blue-black sap stains.

Sapwood is gray-white, the heartwood is salmon red to orange-brown when fresh and becomes russet or reddish brown when seasoned, often marked with dark streaks.

Heartwood is light brown; some boards may have a pinkish tint or a slight grayish cast. Sapwood is white to cream.

Heartwood varies from light yellow/orange to reddish brown or yellowish brown. Sapwood is pale tan to yellowish white.

Dark reddish brown with slight yellowish-orange undertones.

Plain sawing is the most common method of sawing, most wood flooring is cut this way. Since most of the lumber produced by plain sawing is flat-grained, with some vertical grain wood included, plain-sawn lumber will tend to contain more variation within and among the boards than quarter-sawn lumber.

Rift sawing is similar to quarter sawing, with many of the same advantages and limitations. It accentuates the vertical grain and minimizes the flake effect common in quarter-sawn oak. The angle of the cut is changed slightly. Rift sawing creates more waste than quarter sawing, making it generally more expensive.

In quarter sawing, lumber is produced by first quartering the log and then sawing perpendicular to the rings. Quarter sawing produces nearly all vertical grain and more waste making this product more expensive. More people prefer quarter-sawn over plain-sawn wood for some of these physical factors.