Flooring: Oak or Pine? (Living Room)
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Comments (0)Hi, We are trying to figure out if our floors are oak or pine (or something else!). Please share your thoughts! Thanks, Brooke...See Morepine or white oak wood floors
Comments (9)Mixed woods are also the rule here in the Tennessee bluegrass region. The "fancy floor" tends to be blue poplar , which is yellow poplar from old trees where the heartwood turned blue with great age. ("Yellow poplar" is the lumber from the Tulip Poplar, which is no longer classified as a poplar at all, but the "Tuliptree"). Upstairs, one generally sees ash floors. Oak floors were disdained for their appearance, and one never sees pine floors until much later. It's sometimes called "railway pine" as pine lumber came into vogue only when railways were around to ship it into the region; pine trees don't thrive in this soil. I am guessing the red oak may well be original to your home as well. 2" boards were common by 1893....See MoreDoor & trim species with pine windows & oak floor, oak cabinets
Comments (2)Well, the wood interior of the windows, wood floor and wood cabinets are already a done deal, so subtracting those is out of the question. Just really need some advice on the interior doors......See MoreCOREtec Calypso Oak, Noble Oak or Pembroke Pine photos?
Comments (451)We installed Cyril Oak through out our house a little over a year ago. Im having a terrible time keeping it clean. Dirt gets in the grain pattern which makes it look way darker than when it was new. The only way I’ve have found to clean it is scrubbing with a bleach product. I ordered some of the floor cleaner that Cortec recommended and that cleaned the floor but not the grain pattern. I’ve talked to my housekeeper about changing her pads more oven. I think they were just pushing around dirt. Im so frustrated and disappointed in these floors. They looked beautiful while they were new and after spending 4 hours on my hands and knees scrubbing them. Has anyone else had this issue? And if so what solution have you come up with? I called the Flooring retailer who also did the installation and they recommended trying the diluted bleach cleaner. UGH!...See Moregeoffrey_b
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