Contemplating on replacing your floor with a timber floor? Well, you’ve got yourself in for some big surprises! Timber flooring has been the choice of many homeowners because of its durability, hardness and uniqueness.

Timber floors make your home elegant looking, classy and stylish. More so, timber flooring is hard allowing it to last for many long years.

How hard is a timber floors?

Timber floors are attractive and they provide a good walking surface in your home. When polished these floors really come to life and with a proper finish can bring out the inner beauty of the wood.

Yes, but you have heard stories of how not all floors are the same and are timber floors really durable and hard? Timber floors are hard, but the level of hardness depends on the type of wood that is used for the flooring. Timber floors can be made from two types of wood – hardwood or softwood.

As it turns out, hardwoods are not necessarily a harder material and softwoods is a softer material. Confused?

There are woods that are light in weight, have less density and yet are considered to be hardwood such as a balsa wood.

The hardness of a timber floor is not measured through the kind of wood being used, but by the resistance of wood to indentation. For reference, you check out the Janka Hardness Test and see the hardness level of wood that you are thinking about for your new timber flooring.

Many Australian hardwoods are rated as very hard like:

• Blackbutt
• Marri
• Jarrah

For your floors, choose a wood with a hardness rating of moderately hard.

Good wooden floors, guaranteed!

Timber floors are durable, but not necessarily made from the hardest wood. A timber floor can be made from softwoods and yet can withstand the test of time. With new timber flooring, needs to be hard wearing if you choose correctly and it is laid correctly it may even outlast your home.

Confused? Yes, it is a complicated matter so best to give D.I.Y. Parquetry, Timber and Cork Flooring a call on 0409 081 679 so they can guide you through the choosing process. Not all woods are the same. D.I.Y. Parquetry give you free measure, quotes and advice.