Wood Flooring Ideas Photos: Wood Flooring Janka Scale

Red oak, for example, has a hardness of 1290 and is used by the flooring industry as a benchmark to compare the hardnesses of potential wood flooring materials. Basswood has a Janka hardness rating of What’s Hot Popular hardwood floor species include oak, maple, and hickory, says Crowder. All three types are listed mid-range on the Janka Scale, the rating system that measures the wood’s hardness Preston at Jetson Green now points us to a bamboo floor with an extraordinary hardness on the Janka Scale of 5000. That's really hard. The Janka rating is determined by measuring the force required, Surely, there’s “soft” and “hardwood,” but how hard is hard? Luckily, there’s a scale for these things: the Janka scale of hardness. It measures the force needed to embed a steel ball halfway through While there, I spoke with a very helpful and knowledgeable salesperson, Sarah Heide. Sarah explained to me the use of the Janka Hardness scale for wood flooring. The Janka scale is the industry The Janka scale measures how much force is needed in pounds per square inch (psi) to embed the ball to half its diameter. Ratings vary slightly depending on how the tests were conducted, but are much .

“On a hardness scale a good quality bamboo in either the horizontal or There’s a good reason why home builders and agents put hardwood floors prominently in their listings and ads: The perceived .