Hickory Flooring

Welcome to the Hickory Flooring website. Being able to find the ideal flooring for your home can be a tough decision. We will help you, with good advice and great information on hickory hardwood floors.

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Why Choose Hickory Flooring ?

Hickory is well known as one of nature's most beautiful and toughest timbers. It actually has a tensile strength that rivals steel. It's virtues have been extolled by cabinet makers for an eternity, its beautiful rich brown and clear yellow heartwood are a visual delight. It's hardly surprising that natural hickory flooring is so sought after. It's breathtaking appearance and extreme durability make it a perfect hardwood flooring material for almost any situation, whether in a formal or informal environment.

Apart from the obvious visual excitement of a hickory floor, and its durability, I can tell you that the range of colors available is diverse. The lower grades of hickory hardwood floors vary in color and tone from almost white through to the richest brown heartwood tones. These variations can make for an extremely dramatic floor. The commercial hickory trees used for producing solid hickory flooring are not actually one species alone. They use the true hickories and also 'pecan hickories'. The different members of these family groups produce different variations of color. With these species mixed, you have the ability to produce extremely vibrant home flooring designs.

Hickory Hardwood Flooring

Many stores that supply solid hickory wide plank flooring are coining the phrase 'calico hickory' to describe the wide range of color variations. They promise that the diverse range of tones will be on all faces of the timber. Useful if you are building kitchen furniture, less relevant on flooring where only one side is on display.

The lower grade of hickory flooring stock, in addition to the wide tone range, are also likely to have more natural defects than the high grade materials. Knots and pock marks offer that rustic, country appearance, but it is not always appropriate. You will need to decide whether those type of 'defects' are suitable, or desirable for your setting. When buying materials for hickory floors you should definitely look at a large selection of samples to make sure that you are getting the quality you need.

The other main quality of hickory floors is their extreme durability. It is one of the hardest domestic timbers in North America, far tougher than maple flooring or oak flooring, and although there is a price attached to such durability, you'll have that floor for many years. If your are on a tight budget, it is possible to get hickory laminate flooring which has a hickory appearance but it substantially cheaper.

Hickory Engineered Flooring

If you have ever tried to cut or sand unfinished hickory, you'll know that it is extremely tough and fibrous. Clean cutting and high quality sanding is difficult without the right tools, so purchasing pre-finished hickory engineered flooring is the right choice for most people. Manufacturers have a number of methods they use to ensure a smooth, high quality finish.

Some amazing value products are available on Amazon  , who offer a wide range of wood flooring  products and accessories.

The Harbors Collection - Handscraped Engineered Wood Flooring Hickory   is a beautifully handscraped, real hardwood flooring available on Amazon.

The Mohawk Domestic Flooring 32294-10 Sedgewick Hickory  , also available on Amazon is a prefinished 3/4 inch thick and 3 1/4 inch wide North American Hickory board. It comes wit ha Scotchgard finish and sells in 17.6 sq ft packs. The 25 year wear and finish warranty makes it great value at $109 USD per case.

We hope this brief review has given you a useful insight into the wonderful qualities of hickory lumber. Feel free to browse our site for more information on stunning hickory flooring.

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