Soft Maple Hardwood Floors

Wide x varying length engineered click hardwood flooring 23 64 sq.

Soft maple hardwood floors. Well cover this in more details later. Soft maple can be used as a substitute for hard maple to save money in situations where low to moderate density is called for such as profiled moldings trim plaques and carved items hard maple is roughly twice as hard as soft maple and is often reserved for structural items like workbenches and. Hard maple 1 450 lb f janka is roughly twice as hard as soft maple 700 950 lb f janka primarily because it tends to grow about half as fast as most. Case 7 79.

Soft maple is about 25 percent less hard than hard maple has medium bending and crushing strength and is low in stiffness and shock resistance. Ft case 4 09. Shaw maple hardwood flooring brings beauty and strength to any room. See our collection of wood flooring stains and grains.

Soft maple is commonly used for railroad crossties boxes pallets crates furniture veneer wooden ware and novelties. It has good steam bending properties. Exotic hardwood 5 12 in tigris bamboo handscraped engineered hardwood flooring 25 61 sq ft bruce addison 2 25 in spice oak smooth traditional solid hardwood flooring 20 sq ft allen roth 5 in natural acacia handscraped engineered hardwood flooring 32 29 sq ft. Thick x 6 1 2 in.

Main uses furniture paneling and millwork kitchen cabinets moulding doors musical instruments and turnings. Maple is one of the hardest hardwood flooring options with a janka score of 1450. Millstead hand scraped maple chocolate 3 4 in. All mfma maple flooring is manufactured exclusively from sugar maple acer saccharum.

Soft maple is used to describe four other types of maple trees. Silver maple acer saccharinum red maple acer rebrum boxelder acer negundo and bigleaf maple acer macrophyllum. The main instances where you would want to stick with hard maple would be in applications where hardness and strength are important such as. Malibu wide plank maple manhattan 3 8 in.

Soft maple varieties are more comparable to birch in hardness and application than hard maple. Thick x 3 1 4 in. Wide x random length solid hardwood flooring 20 sq. The flesh of soft maple trees in particular silver and red maple resembles that of hard maple but is not as heavy hard or strong.