All Hardwood Floors Are Not Created Equal
The Janka Hardness Test...
Choose a Hardwood Floor to Suit Your Lifestyle Hardwood floors naturally vary in density and hardness.
Let's say you open a bottle of your favorite wine and in your haste to reach for a couple of glasses it falls off the countertop.
A scowl quickly draws the curtain over your heretofore relaxed smile as you ascertain your options.
Hopefully you have another bottle.
To put it simply, your wine bottle is more likely to put a dent in a Yellow Pine floor than a Brazilian Walnut floor.
Why? Because Yellow Pine scores 690 on the Janka Hardness Test while Brazilian Walnut scores 3684.
The Janka Hardness Test measures the force required to embed a .
444" steel ball to half its diameter in a piece of wood.
It is a good measure of the ability of a particular wood species to withstand denting and wear.
It is also a good indicator of the relative difficulty of sawing or milling hardwood flooring.
So, you've grabbed a towel and your beloved 80# Lab comes racing into the room to help with the cleanup.
Here again, your devoted friend will more likely cause damage to the Yellow Pine floor than a Brazilian Walnut floor.
Though it is commonly used as a way to determine whether a wood species is suitable for hardwood floors, it is also loosely interpreted around the globe.
Its value is in finding a range of floors to suit your lifestyle.
The table below rates the more popular species suitable for use as hardwood floors.
Wood Flooring Species / Hardness Brazilian Walnut / Ipe 3684 Brazilian Teak / Cumaru 3540 Ebony 3220 Strandwoven Bamboo 3200 Brazilian Cherry / Jatoba 2350 Mesquite 2345 Santos Mahogany / Cabreuva 2200 Bubuinga 1980 Tigerwood 1850 Hickory / Pecan 1820 Merbau 1712 Beech 1686 Wenge, Red Pine 1630 Zebrawood 1575 Hard Maple 1450 Natural Bamboo 1380 Australian Cypress 1375 White Oak 1360 Ash 1320 Red Oak 1290 Heart Pine 1225 Carbonized Bamboo 1180 Brazilian Eucalyptus 1125 American Walnut 1010 Teak 1000 American Cherry 950 Cedar 900 Yellow Pine 690 Douglas Fir 660 White Pine 420.
Choose a Hardwood Floor to Suit Your Lifestyle Hardwood floors naturally vary in density and hardness.
Let's say you open a bottle of your favorite wine and in your haste to reach for a couple of glasses it falls off the countertop.
A scowl quickly draws the curtain over your heretofore relaxed smile as you ascertain your options.
Hopefully you have another bottle.
To put it simply, your wine bottle is more likely to put a dent in a Yellow Pine floor than a Brazilian Walnut floor.
Why? Because Yellow Pine scores 690 on the Janka Hardness Test while Brazilian Walnut scores 3684.
The Janka Hardness Test measures the force required to embed a .
444" steel ball to half its diameter in a piece of wood.
It is a good measure of the ability of a particular wood species to withstand denting and wear.
It is also a good indicator of the relative difficulty of sawing or milling hardwood flooring.
So, you've grabbed a towel and your beloved 80# Lab comes racing into the room to help with the cleanup.
Here again, your devoted friend will more likely cause damage to the Yellow Pine floor than a Brazilian Walnut floor.
Though it is commonly used as a way to determine whether a wood species is suitable for hardwood floors, it is also loosely interpreted around the globe.
Its value is in finding a range of floors to suit your lifestyle.
The table below rates the more popular species suitable for use as hardwood floors.
Wood Flooring Species / Hardness Brazilian Walnut / Ipe 3684 Brazilian Teak / Cumaru 3540 Ebony 3220 Strandwoven Bamboo 3200 Brazilian Cherry / Jatoba 2350 Mesquite 2345 Santos Mahogany / Cabreuva 2200 Bubuinga 1980 Tigerwood 1850 Hickory / Pecan 1820 Merbau 1712 Beech 1686 Wenge, Red Pine 1630 Zebrawood 1575 Hard Maple 1450 Natural Bamboo 1380 Australian Cypress 1375 White Oak 1360 Ash 1320 Red Oak 1290 Heart Pine 1225 Carbonized Bamboo 1180 Brazilian Eucalyptus 1125 American Walnut 1010 Teak 1000 American Cherry 950 Cedar 900 Yellow Pine 690 Douglas Fir 660 White Pine 420.
