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European white oak flooring recommendations

5 years ago

Hello -

We are building a house and love the look of European white oak. Any recommendations on a wider plank engineered floor that can be refinished at least once? Preferable twice?

Anyone have solid 4” white oak installed in a medium brown tone that they can share pictures of?

Thanks!!!

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Kristin S
5 years ago
We're going with D&M Flooring's Casa Wide Plank Series in Clay (Biscuit is the same color in an even wider plank), which might fit the bill. It's got a 4mm wear layer, which should allow for two refinishes.

http://dm-flooring.com/prod_cat/casa-wide-plank/
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Oak & Broad
5 years ago
swingrove85 keep in mind that many of the prefinished Euro/French White Oak options have a finish that uses reactive stains to get a particular color. If you sand of that finish it may be difficult or impossible to recreate on site. Thats why many options use WOCA oil or similar to service the product.
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You are looking for a water based polyurethane as the finish. If you are looking for a factory finish then you will most likely work with an engineered product that has the polyurethane finish. If you want solid European Oak, you can work with a premium wood flooring company (the one that only the VERY wealthy can afford to use) and have it imported for you. They would then site finish your floors with a water based polyurethane. There are a few companies, like Oak & Broad, that carry a site finished engineered hardwood with the European Oak wear layer. These are premium products but they are well worth the investment. An upscale home always appreciates the use of upscale products.
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Elizabeth Turton , American White Oak can look very similar. All our floors are made to order to both 5/8" and 3/4" Engineered are available.
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The natural colour of European Oak is a soft butter yellow with STRONG gray and GREEN undertones. I think it is one of the nicest oaks we have...but the white wash is going to hide the expensive part of the purchase - the European Oak. If you want a white wash floor, then go with regular white oak (N. American wood). It does the same thing for about half the price. And to be clear, MOST European Oak floors that are BUDGET FRIENDLY (less than $12/sf) are out of CHINA. It is isn't the white wash that is an issue. Those floors are going to be fine. It is the price tag that I worry about AND the availability. The US and China are having a MASSIVE spat right now. Getting Chinese wood products into USA/Canada takes HUGE amounts of time and huge amounts of new tariffs being added DAILY. What you were quoted for price on Thursday will be very different when you pay for it on Monday.
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Kahrs Canvas Collection. This is color Bristle. I can't recommend the company enough.

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