Choose ProSource Wholesale^® For Your Hardwood Flooring

Hardwood floors are a timeless tradition that offers countless benefits for those looking to add the elegance and ingenuity that this top flooring choice entails. Hardwood features a diverse selection of wood species, surface types, and stain colors, but at ProSource Wholesale, our knowledgeable staff is ready to help make the decisions easier.

Types of Wood Species

Hardwood floors can create a statement, that tells the story of family get-togethers during the holidays and entertaining friends on the weekends. When maintained and cared for properly, they can handle the test of time and become a mainstay in the home. That starts with the type of wood species and its properties, which can offer variance and personality to that statement.

Hickory
While not as common as other species of wood, hickory is one of the most durable options for hardwood floors and is known for its complex grain patterns, rich color variations, and striking character marks. For households with high traffic and activity, hickory hardwood floors deliver in protecting against the wear and tear of children and pets alike.

White Oak
With its tight growth rings, high heart content, wide planks, and long lengths, white oak floors can offer durability and stability for years to come. More resistant to water than red oak, white oak offers an aesthetically-pleasing appearance that does not require stains, providing versatility to fit into any homeowner’s design vision.

Oak
Oak floors are a classic staple among the pantheon of hardwood floor choices. Its popularity is due to the strength, stability, abundance, and ability to personalize to fit the homeowner’s personal style. With its prevalence and popularity, as well as its ease in maintaining, oak hardwood floors are perfect throughout the house and offer a timeless look that can last a lifetime.

Maple
Maple hardwood floors are divided into two different types, soft maple and hard maple. Hard maple features rings that generally are closer together than those of soft maple. Hard maple also is heavier in weight with U-shaped valleys that are known as sinuses between the points of the lead, called lobes. Soft maple leaves feature more V-shaped sinuses. Maple hardwood floors features a stunning appearance that goes with most color schemes and ease of maintenance.

Acacia
Resistant to the climate of a changing seasonal home and durable against the challenges of pets and children, acacia hardwood floors offers the perfect mixture of function and fashion. It features poignant swirling grains with its range of colors from yellow to a deep mahogany and a unique, natural luster perfect for the home office.

Birch
By choosing birch hardwood floors, homeowners are choosing an intriguing combination of grain and color patterns that provide warmth and visual appeal to any room. Their distinctive, wide-planked construction create countless opportunities when combined with the stains and finishes that fit the design of the space.

Red Oak
Red oak hardwood floors adds warmth to any room and offers customizable abilities with the addition of stains. Given its porous nature and its challenges around direct sunlight, it may be better suited for bedrooms or living rooms, where less exposure to those elements is likely.

Teak
Sporting the luxury and elegance with worry-free maintenance, teak hardwood floors are some of the most durable and water-resistant options in the hardwood flooring market. They offer a luxurious experience in high-end bathrooms with their deep honey colors and long grained characteristics, teak hardwood floors look to bring its signature look to any design concept.

European Oak
The bold differences found European oak hardwood floors create opportunity for room designs with darker tones. Their distinctive, wavy grain pattern with scatterings of burr and pip complement the tonal evenness between boards, depending on the chosen finishing option.

Red Maple
Red maple hardwood floors offer excellent levels of durability, ideal for high-trafficked households looking for its stylish sapwood. It falls in the realm of soft maples and is perfect for specific finishing techniques that can fit any design vision. Its beautiful wavy pattern emanates elegance, that if maintained properly, can last decades with ease.

Hardwood Looks

Changing the appearance of hardwood floors, in order to fit the design vision of the room is not a new or unique concept. There are several ways of going about this that will give wood a unique full look. ProSource Wholesale® features experts in the flooring industry ready to answer any questions about the selections offered. With hardwood flooring, there are countless available customization options available with various patterns and styles to choose from.

Scraped
With extra texture and definition added to the surface, scraped hardwood floors are created with hand-scraped surfaces before the planks are completed with lacquer or oil. They can range from subtle to extreme, but they can create a unique look, depending on the tool used in the scraping.

Smooth
Smooth hardwood floors express a classic design concept with a centuries-old tradition that continues its popularity in present-day households around the world. A smooth texture or appearance is achieved with very delicate sanding that gives the wood a silky texture that promotes the grain prominently.

Light Scrape
Similarly to the scraped style, light scrape hardwood floors offer opportunities to add a lighter sense of definition and texture to the design concept, offering a detailed complement to the space. This look often is featured in contemporary homes looking for newer style that can open up homes.

Sawn
With sawn hardwood floors, tangential cuts are made in the direction of the tree’s growth rings, with the rings creating a mesmerizing arrow, loop, or cathedral pattern on the face of the surface. This is one of the more common types of looks with deep, interesting lines and curves throughout the wood.

Engineered vs. Solid Wood

There are two different types of wood offered at ProSource Wholesale: engineered wood and solid wood.

Engineered wood is a combination of wood layers that make up a board. It has 100 percent natural wood as the top and bottom layers of its construction with five to seven plywood planks in between. They work together, in order to create a highly stable core, flexible to moisture, humidity, and temperature. Engineered wood is recommended in rooms like the basement, which are subject to higher levels of moisture.

Solid wood is thick plank of natural wood. Each plank is a solid piece that is durable and reliable, which makes it a beautiful and sturdy investment for the home.

Choosing Wood Direction

Choosing what direction that the wood is facing is dependent on several factors including what type of hardwood is being employed, as well as personal preference.

If the homeowner is using engineered hardwood, they will want to make sure that they are getting the right look for the space. For example, the wood should run with the length of the hallway, if it is in a narrow hallway. In a room, spaces will appear larger by following the same technique.