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Hard Maple flooring features strikingly beautiful grain patterns with clean and light hues that appeal to those seeking a more neutral floor. In addition to its aesthetic beauty, hard Maple flooring is renowned for its strength and durability. Ultimately, the density and natural color tones of Maple wood flooring make it the perfect component for interior design in everything from formal and traditional to casual and contemporary settings.
This introduction provides everything you need to know about hard Maple flooring, including answers to frequently asked questions and details about hard Maple flooring options available from Carlisle Wide Plank Floors.
While hard Maple flooring offers great options for a wide variety of design schemes, Carlisle also offers a number of other wide plank flooring possibilities.
For more than 50 years, Carlisle has been creating extraordinary wide plank floors – unique masterpieces that are the perfect expression of the owner’s aesthetic and sense of style. Patiently handcrafted by our New England artisans, Carlisle hard Maple flooring and other wide plank floors are more than simply surfaces to walk on – they are remarkable design elements of a home or business and the welcome reminder of where you are, every time you enter the room. With our forest-to-floor ethic and a commitment to sustainable forestry practices, you can be sure that our floors are produced using methods that let us preserve natural resources while harvesting the most mature and high-quality timbers.
Prefinished hard Maple flooring is completed in the Carlisle facility before it is shipped to your home or business for installation. While unfinished flooring must be sanded and stained on site, creating a significant mess, prefinished floors let you skip that process. And since prefinished floors are sealed before they are delivered, you can also skip the noxious odors of polyurethane sealants and the inconvenience of having to vacate your property for several days while the floor is sealed.
Hard Maple flooring at Carlisle can be solid wood flooring or engineered wood flooring. Solid wood floorboards are made with a single piece of hardwood, while engineered floorboards are made with multiple layers to form a board that will not expand and contract dramatically as temperature and humidity change. Carlisle engineered hard Maple flooring is fashioned with a thick veneer of Maple attached to 5 – 11 layers of a suitable plywood substrate to form the most stable engineered floor in the industry. Engineered floors are not appropriate for locations where the relative humidity consistently falls below 30%.
A distressed floor is one that is treated to create the appearance of aged and weathered wood. Distressed hard Maple flooring may be given hand scraped edges or saw marks to re-create the look of floorboards that were cut and milled in centuries past. Other methods, exclusive to Carlisle, include Timeworn, Footworn and Brushed techniques that give floorboards the appearance of having been worn down by age, weather and generations of use.
To avoid scratches, hard Maple flooring should be swept regularly to remove debris. Dirt and contaminants can be easily removed with a simple mixture of vinegar and water. Be sure to check your manufacturer’s or installer’s instructions for the best way to clean your hard Maple flooring.
Hard Maple flooring has a Janka hardness rating of 1450, placing it among the denser flooring options.
As a hardwood with a neutral color, Maple can be stained to almost any hue. Carlisle design consultants can help you select the right stain for light or dark Maple floors. However, most people who opt for hard Maple flooring choose to finish their floors without stain, allowing the natural color of the Maple wood to shine.
White Maple and Brown Maple hardwood flooring come from the same type of Maple tree, but Brown Maple floorboards are cut from trees that have develop heartwood where the nutrients in the tree are no longer present in the very center of the timber. These timbers have more rich, brown streaks with striking variations in color.
Wide plank hard Maple flooring uses Maple floorboards that are 2 – 6 times wider than standard commercial flooring. The extra width of these planks allows the personality of the wood to emerge and the grain structure to be fully appreciated. Wide plank hard Maple flooring also has far fewer seams than traditional floors, giving the room a less busy look and more spacious feel.
Hard Maple flooring is a hardwood floor that is fashion from boards cut from Maple trees. With great density, neutral coloration and clear flowing grain with occasional swirls, Maple flooring is a highly fashionable option for a variety of interior design schemes.
