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It’s hard to beat a Red Oak floor when it comes to balancing beauty, durability and flexibility. The salmon-pink tones and varied grain patterns of Red Oak add warmth and beauty to any room. It’s strength and density make it more resistant to dents and scratches. And because it stains easily, a Red Oak floor can easily be part of casual, classic, temporary or formal interior designs. It’s no wonder unfinished Red Oak flooring is among the most popular choices for hardwood floors in the world.
At Carlisle, you’ll find a host of options for wide plank unfinished Oak floors. Our design consultants can walk you through all your choices for wood grade, structure, texture and color to help you design a surface that’s the perfect expression of your sense of style and beauty.
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ExploreA Red Oak floor is typically light brown with pinkish-reddish hues, lending a natural warmth to any room. Red Oak also boasts strong grain properties, helping to conceal scratches and dents more easily.
Red Oak has a 1290 rating on the Janka wood hardness chart, which makes it a medium hardwood. When considering Red Oak vs. Maple, which is a denser hardwood, many customers prefer the softer Red Oak because it can be refinished easier.
Red Oak and White Oak are types of American Oak trees. Red Oak is lighter and has more pinkish, salmon tones than White Oak, which tends to look darker and has more brown or yellow hues. Red Oak has stronger grain patterns, but White Oak is slightly denser, making it somewhat more resistant to dents and scratches. Solid French Oak flooring is made with a European variety of Oak that is quite similar to American White Oak. French Oak has higher tannin levels, making it more resistant to moisture but harder to stain.
Yes. Oak floors can be easily distressed or textured to recreate the look of vintage French Oak flooring or of floors from the American colonial period and later. Carlisle craftsmen use a variety of techniques that add saw marks and other imperfections to give floorboards the appearance of planks that were milled at early sawmills. Additionally, our woodworkers can treat Red Oak floors to give them the worn appearance of surfaces that have been lived on and walked on for several generations.
Red Oak is one of the easiest woods to stain, as the grain is fairly porous. Also, Red Oak has fewer tannins than other species, allowing the stain to be absorbed more easily.
An engineered Red Oak floor is made with manufactured floorboards rather than planks made of solid wood. An engineered Red Oak floorboard is produced by gluing a top layer of Red Oak hardwood to multiple layers of a backing material that are also glued together. This type of construction makes the floorboard quite resistant to changes in temperature and humidity, allowing it to be successfully installed below grade, over radiant heat, on concrete slabs and in other locations where moisture may vary drastically.
A prefinished floor is sanded, stained and sealed at the manufacturer's facility before it is shipped to a home or job site for installation. Prefinished floors speed the installation process and let homeowners avoid the mess and odor of finishing a floor on site.
When you come to Carlisle, you’ll be as impressed with our commitment to service as you are with the quality of our Red Oak floors. From your first point of contact with our design team through every step of designing, handcrafting and customizing a stunning floor, your Carlisle wide plank specialists will be there to offer expert guidance and answer every question. We’ll walk you through the selection of wood grades, board widths, stain colors, texture and more. And we’ll be available through the installation process to offer tips that can maximize the beauty and durability of your new Carlisle floor. Our goal is to make sure that both your Red Oak floor and the experience of creating it exceed your every expectation – and ours.
When you choose a Carlisle Red Oak floor, you’ll be designing a handcrafted masterpiece that will perfectly reflect your sense of style. For more than half a century, Carlisle has been creating America’s finest wood floors with time-honored processes and the highest quality raw materials available. Our expert woodworkers take pride in obsessing over every inch of your floor – from scouring the grain patterns in individual planks to applying stain and hand-scraping edges. They know that every detail matters when you’re crafting the surface on which your life at home will be lived. With Carlisle, you can be sure your one-of-a-kind Red Oak floor will be a defining feature of your home that will delight and amaze you for years to come.
