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- Case Study UFH
- How to get a White Wooden Floor
- Reasons for oiling wooden floors
- Applying WOCA Pre White and Extra White Colour Oil on unfinished Oak
- Industrial Strength Finished Oak Floors
- Wood Flooring Hardness Tests using the Janka Scale
- Quality wood flooring
- Putting Rugs over Wood Flooring with underfloor heating can cause very big problems with the floor lifting
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Wood Flooring Hardness Tests using the Janka Scale

Real Wood Flooring hardness tests show how different species of wood floors will withstand indentations and wear and tear.
 
The chart below shows the Janka hardness test for all types of wood flooring including, Oak, Canadian Maple, American Black Walnut, Solid Bamboo and Strand Woven Bamboo. We supply all these as flooring solution. We will not supply Brazilian Walnut as it is normally illegally logged but we do have a range of Strand Woven Bamboo flooring that is as hard but is one of the most environmentally friendly flooring options available today.
 
You should always make sure that you choose the correct flooring for the purpose that you want. For example if you have large dogs with sharp claws that will never get cut (or hardly ever) then you will need the strand woven bamboo or a brushed and oiled oak.  Do not buy a lacquered dark floor as dogs claws are very sharp and hard, but you could use a darker brushed oak floor.
 
The higher the number the harder the wood, as you can see Strand Woven Bamboo is three times harder than American Walnut. Walnut will"bruise" if mistreated.
 
Janka Hardness Scale(Ibf)
Noth American Cherry 950
North American Walnut 1010
True Teak 1155
Iroko 1260
Yellow Birch 1260
Red Oak 1260
Beech 1300
Ash 1320
White Oak 1360
Royal Mahogany 1400
Caribbean Walnut 1400
North American Maple 1450
Brazilian Maple 1450
Timborana 1570
Engineered Bamboo 1690
Kempas 1710
African Paduak 1725
Solid Bamboo 1762
Doussie 1770
Pecau 1820
Hickory 1820
Distressed Bamboo 1887
Jarrah 1910
Merbau 1925
Santos Mahogany 2200
Caribbean Rosewood 2300
Chestnut 2426
Tiete Rosewood 2800
Brazilian Cherry 2820
Strand Woven Bamboo 3014
Brazilian Teak 3540
Tiete Chestnut 3540
Brazilian Walnut 3680