Black Cherry Wood Floors

Variations within species and grades.

Black cherry wood floors.

Freshly cut cherry is often very pale but the wood oxidizes to its famously favorable rich brown red in time. Black cherry is about 26 softer than a northern red oak wood with a rating of 950 on the janka hardness scale. If lower grade larger logs are sawn to exclude sapwood and further manufacture eliminates sapwood in the product fencing cladding furniture cherry is an excellent exterior wood. Leaf of a black cherry tree.

American black cherry is an exceptional choice for hardwood plank flooring. Black cherry sapwood in not rot resistant at all most cherry is sawn for grade and nearly all boards contain sapwood often both faces. The tree is a hardwood and the lineal taxonomy is magnoliopsida rosales rosaceae prunus serotina ehrh. 443 280 1517 email.

Black cherry presents with a uniform grain texture which is fine and wavy. A light reddish brown hardwood with a satiny fine grain that ages to a rich patina american cherry is one of the most sought after northern hardwoods.