Black Cherry Wood Floors

Black cherry is about 26 softer than a northern red oak wood with a rating of 950 on the janka hardness scale.

Black cherry wood floors.

If lower grade larger logs are sawn to exclude sapwood and further manufacture eliminates sapwood in the product fencing cladding furniture cherry is an excellent exterior wood. A light reddish brown hardwood with a satiny fine grain that ages to a rich patina american cherry is one of the most sought after northern hardwoods. The tree is a hardwood and the lineal taxonomy is magnoliopsida rosales rosaceae prunus serotina ehrh. Countryplank offers a variety of grades and styles of cherry flooring to suit your tastes and budget.

Leaf of a black cherry tree. American black cherry is an exceptional choice for hardwood plank flooring. Other names black cherry capulin cherry chisos wild cherry choke cherry edwards plateau cherry escarpment cherry gila choke cherry mountain black cherry new england mahogany plum rum cherry southwestern chokecherry whiskey. 443 280 1517 email.

Black cherry sapwood in not rot resistant at all most cherry is sawn for grade and nearly all boards contain sapwood often both faces. Black cherry presents with a uniform grain texture which is fine and wavy.