Solid Tropical Hardwood Flooring

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Solid Tropical Wood Flooring

Real Oak Floors have a large selection of tropical timbers available as wood floors. We also have an extensive database which enables us to source most products and sizes specific to your requirements.
Available in various finishes, our selection of exotic species has a multitude of colours and grain variances - from the most pale species to a near black timber - all tastes and styles are accounted for here.

Timbers include Acacia, Ash, Bamboo, Beech, Birch, Cabreuva, Cherry, Danta, Elm, Hevea, Ipe, Jarrah, Jatoba, Kempas, Larch, Maple, Massaranduba, Morado, Pine, Purpleheart, Redwood, Teak, Tigerwood, Walnut, Wenge and Zebrano.

Real Oak Floors stock and supply a variety of beautiful Solid, Laminated and Engineered flooring flooring options in a range of finishes.

Please browse this section and, if there is a product that you need that is not shown here then please contact us (0844 848 6840) as we are able to source more products than we can show here.

About Ash Flooring

Ash Flooring has a light natural colour which varies from almost pure white to grey and the flooring is graded accordingly. Ash flooring is a British wood and as such will not feel out of place in your home.

The Ash was called by Gilpin "the Venus of the woods" and is one of the more important of our forest trees. It is truly indigenous to Great Britain and throughout the most part of Europe and North America. With the Privets, Olives and Lilacs, the Ashes form the small order Oleacea, a group of trees and shrubs with their leaves in opposite pairs, and with the parts of the flower in whorls of four or two.

Ash often reaches heights between seventy and ninety feet, with a girth often as much as twenty feet. Since ash grows best in moist situations in rich soils and when crowded, it will form a trunk free of branches to a great height. When standing alone ash grows large limbs, which divide into numerous branches so as to form a spreading head, whilst in old trees, especially when growing on rocky slopes, the branches acquire a downward sweep.

It may be merely rounded in outline or drawn up to some height, and the green of the foliage is somewhat dull and monotonous when viewed closely; but it is the transparency of the tree, and the play of light through its entire leafage, that give its chief charm to the Ash.

The wood of the Ash is a greyish-white throughout, the sap-wood being used along with the more central portions, an advantage peculiar to but few species. It is more flexible than that of any other European tree, and its value is increased by rapid growth. Few trees become useful so soon. The tree lives to an age of several hundred years but can be most profitably felled at from eighty to a hundred years old. For smaller wood it is, of course, largely treated as coppice. The roots and knotty parts of the stem are valued by cabinet-makers, and were, according to Evelyn, known as "green ebony."

Our ash flooring range spans through both 3-strip and 2-strip variations, all flooring uses the click-fit system for ease of installation. Our ash flooring range includes products with a 25 year guarantee! For all your ash flooring needs look no furthur for the best quality and best prices!

About Birch Wood Flooring

Yellow Birch, Sweet Birch. Paper Birch (B. papyrifera) is softer and lower in weight and strength than Yellow or Sweet Birch. However, Yellow Birch is most commonly used for flooring. Boards can vary greatly in grain and colour.

Birch is the name of any tree of the genus Betula which is closely related to the Beech and Oak family. Historicaly, Birch has had many uses in this country. It has been employed mainly for practical or medicinal purposes but has also had spiritual importance here and in several religions, both modern and historical.

Birch is a medium heavy, medium hard and tough wood among the species. Its medium form stable during moisture variation. Due to the unique combination of hardness and toughness, they are used for furniture, joinery, turned products and of course flooring.

About Cherry Wood Flooring

Cherry has cream coloured sapwood which contrasts sharply with the reddish heartwood. In the heartwood the colour can range from a pinkish red to darker red. North American Cherry also has small dark brown gum veins that are part of the character of this species.

Cherry undergoes an extreme degree of colour change with pronounced darkening from a pale pink colour when fresh milled to a dark reddish colour when fully aged. This process occurs within a few weeks in direct sunlight and by oxidation, out of sunlight, over a six to eight month period.

Cherry can be described as a moderately hard and heavy wood; it is strong and stiff making it an ideal choice for wood flooring. Its solid structure makes Cherry highly resistant to shock and damage.

Cherry wood flooring is famed for its grain as much as its warm, homely colours. Each board features a fine, closed grain. Cherry takes a finish very well, however light to natural finishes are recommended.

This wood is commonly used for high end furniture, cabinets, interior millwork and flooring due to its distinctive characteristics. Beautiful markings, gum streaks and pin knots all help to make it the unique choice that it is.

About Hevea Wood Flooring

Hevea is a medium density hardwood with a hardness and appearance similar to Oak and Teak. This makes Hevea relatively harder than most other plantation timber species. The drying shrinkage of Hevea is relatively low compared to most hardwood with same density and this makes Hevea more dimensionally stable than most other timber species used for timber flooring. Most importantly, Hevea is easy, biodegradable and does not produce toxic waste or fumes during production, use or disposal. Since Hevea comes from sustainable and manageable plantation resource it is thereby considered as a true eco-friendly product.

The crop is best known as the main producer of natural rubber latex. In recent years, as the international price of rubber has remained well below historical levels, the crop has become increasingly important as a material used to make furniture and flooring for a domestic domestic environment.

Real Oak Floors stock and supply a variety of Hevea flooring options. Please browse this section and, if there is a product that you need that is not shown here then please contact us (0844 848 6840) as we are able to source more products than we can show here.

About Kempas Wood Flooring

Kempas wood flooring is a course grained and very hard. The sapwood of Kempas is yellow to pale white, while the heartwood is generally pink to reddish colour wood, with medium graining, that is widely used for flooring in the Far East. Kempas wood offers a wide range of colour variability from a pale pink-tan colour to a medium dark-reddish colour and undergoes a medium degree of muting of the colour range over time and a slight darkening to a medium reddish colour.

Kempas Wood Flooring has a natural resistance to decay. The wood remains smooth under friction and is reported to have no discernable odour. Kempas dries rather easily and is compact, hard and heavy. That is why it is most hardwearing hardwood floor species in our collection. In addition, Kempas wood is highly decorative with its understated patterns flickering in tones of brandy and dark rum. Its dark tones also lend deep glow to the other colours in the dÃ©cor.

Kempas grows in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Sumatra and is much harder than most of the red or white oaks.

As a flooring option Kempas is a hard and durable wood with strong tensile performance after being dried. It is nearly identical in hardness to African Padauk, is roughly eighteen percent harder than Hard Maple, about one third harder than Red Oak, and approaches eighty percent of Santos Mahogany's ranking of 2200.

Kempas's principal uses include flooring, chairs, shingles, cabinets, and veneer. When working with Kempas flooring pre-boring is suggested but the wood holds nails well once applied. Glue also holds well with kempas flooring. This species sands well but does require some filling to ensure a good polish.

About Larch Wood Flooring

Larches are conifers in the family Pinaceae. They are native to much of the cooler temperate northern hemisphere, on lowlands in the far north, and high on mountains further south. Larches are among the dominant plants in the immense boreal forests of Russia and Canada where the cool temperature inhibits the growth and encourages a tighter grain. Because of this, Northern Larch wood flooring is almost Pitch Pine like in appearance

This larch is FSC certified flooring, we also stock a variety of fsc certified oak flooring

Larch is valued in forestry for its wood, which is tough, waterproof and durable, with top quality knot-free timber being in great demand for a variety of uses from furniture, flooring and interior design to yachts and other boats. Larch wood flooring is known to exhibit distinctively handsome flame-like colour patterns, small knots, tight grains and varying hues.

The heart-wood is reddish-brown, when grown in a cold situation, and very light in weight, weighing when dry about thirty-six pounds per cubic foot; but the wood of the richer soils of lowland forests is often of a yellowish-white. Owing to the small size of the lateral branches the wood is comparatively free from knots, and those which occur do not rot or become loose. No wood remains longer uninjured by water than larch, so that it was once largely used on the Continent for waterpipes; and when the bark is left on it is extremely durable, both above and under ground, and therefore suited for use for posts, vine-props, and hop-poles. For these purposes it is planted close, so that the trunks are drawn up in a long and slender form. The closeness of the grain, moreover, renders Larch timber much less liable to splinter, which adapts it for the superstructures of warships.

About Maple Wood Flooring

The Maple is one of North America's most versatile and best-loved deciduous trees. Depending on the variety, Maples are used for rough construction or in the making of fine furniture. The sap of sugar Maples is the only ingredient in Maple syrup, the delicious elixir produced in Ontario, Quebec and New England every spring. Maples are also a major tourist attraction - their breath-taking leaves captivate visitors to eastern North America every autumn. A single Maple Leaf is even the proud centrepiece of Canada's national flag.

Maple Wood, which varies in hardness, toughness and other properties, is in demand for products such as Maple flooring, furniture, interior woodwork, veneer, small woodenware, and supports several flourishing industries in eastern Canada. Maple is also highly prized in furniture building and cabinet-making.

Maple lumber such as that used in maple flooring comes principally from the Middle Atlantic and Lake States of America, which together account for about two-thirds of the production. The wood of Sugar Maple and Black Maple is known as Hard Maple; that of Silver Maple, Red Maple, and Boxelder as Soft Maple. The Sapwood is commonly white with a slight reddish-brown tinge; the Heartwood is light reddish brown, but sometimes is considerably darker.

Hard Maple has a fine, uniform texture, turns well on a lathe, is resistant to abrasion and has no characteristic odor. It is heavy, strong, stiff, hard, and resistant to shock, and it has large shrinkage. Sugar Maple is generally straight grained but the grain also occurs as birds-eye, curly, and fiddleback grain.

The wood of Soft Maples resembles that of hard maples but is not as heavy, hard and strong, the better grade of soft maple has been substituted for hard maple in furniture.

Real Oak Floors stock and supply a variety of beautiful maple flooring as well as other species of Solid, Engineered and Laminated flooring options in a range of finishes. Please browse this section and, if there is a product that you need that is not shown here then please contact us (0844 848 6840) as we are able to source more products than we can show here.

Teak Flooring

Teak Wood Flooring comes from the Tectona grandis tree; a hardwood of the family Verbenaceae. Teak is said to be indigenous to India, Burma, Thailand, Indochina and Java. It has been extensively planted for wood or as an ornamental within its natural range and throughout the tropical regions of the world, including East and West Africa, as well as Cuba and the Caribbean, and South America from Panama to Brazil.

Teak is a well-known and very good general-purpose wood. Its favourable properties make it suitable for a wide variety of purposes. For the export market Teak is recommended for interior and exterior joinery (windows, solid panel doors, framing) and is used for flooring exposed to light to moderate pedestrian traffic.

Teak is a medium-weight timber which is rather soft and has a very characteristic appearance. The heartwood is often dull yellowish when freshly cut but it turns golden brown or sometimes dark greyish-brown after exposure, often streaked greyish or blackish; the sapwood is yellowish-white or pale yellowish-brown and up to 50 mm thick. The wood is oily to the touch, and when freshly cut it has a smell reminiscent of leather. The grain of the wood is straight, wavy or slightly interlocked.

Teak is not a wood from tropical rain forests, and indeed, teak cannot grow in rain forests - it is a deciduous tree which grows particularly well in the dry, hilly terrain typical of plantation forests in Southeast Asia.

When plantation grown, the tree will attain a height of up to 45m [150ft] with a diameter 1 - 1.5m [3 - 5ft]. It will be ready for harvesting at around 50 - 60 years. If well maintained the tree can produce a clear stem of up to 30m in length giving a high timber yield.

The Teak Tree has annual growth rings. It grows quickly in the right conditions and puts on nearly one inch of growth in diameter in four to five years. It can grow up to a height of 45m and a girth of about 4 to 5m in nearly 100 years when its wood is considered fully mature and suitable for any use where along with strength, good looks of the finished product are the main requirement. Teak Wood is considered to be one of the best timbers available anywhere. It weights nearly 20 kg to a cubic foot and its grains show beautiful patterns. It planes easily and takes varnish and polish very well.

Teak has many other uses in addition to being an excellent timber. Its wood contains a kind of scented oil which renders any teak product repellent to insects.

Real Oak Floors stock and supply a variety of beautiful Solid, Engineered and Laminated flooring options in a range of finishes. Please browse this section and, if there is a product that you need that is not shown here then please contact us (0844 848 6840) as we are able to source more products than we can show here.

You may also be interested in real oak floors range of engineered teak flooring.