Red Pine Flooring Hardness

Glues and finishes well though excess resin can sometimes cause problems with its paint holding ability.

Red pine flooring hardness. True pine has a janka rating of 1570 carribean heart pine is 1280 red pine is 1630 longleaf southern yellow pine is 870 both shortleaf and loblolly southern yellow pine are 690 white pine is 420 and eastern white pine. A common use of janka hardness ratings is to determine whether a species is suitable for use as flooring. With that knotty pine look in wide and narrow planks it is milled from responsibly harvested trees. Red pine is easy to work with both hand and machine tools.

Talk to a specialist 413 562 8730. The wood meets the needs for strong dimensional stock in construction and for flooring door and frames and other millwork. Red pine is readily treated with preservatives and can thereafter be used in exterior applications such as posts or utility poles. The janka hardness test from the austrian born emigrant gabriel janka 1864 1932 measures the resistance of a sample of wood to denting and wear.

Flooring choices can range comparably from hard maple or wenge to red oak to even softer than douglas fir in hardness. Red oak for example has a hardness of 1290 and is used by the flooring industry as a benchmark to compare the hardnesses of potential wood flooring materials. Red pine logs are also popular for rustic homes and cabins.