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Red Oak floors add beauty and elegance to any room. Red Oak hardwood flooring is a durable, stylish and highly flexible option for residential and commercial settings, making it one of the most popular choices for customers who want to transform their space. This short introduction to Red Oak solid hardwood flooring and engineered hardwood flooring is designed to provide an overview and to answer common questions about this solid wood flooring option.
Red Oak timber is a common wood species found throughout the central and eastern parts of the US and Canada. Because of its combination of hardness and flexibility, it has long been a favorite choice of homeowners and solid wood floor installers. Red Oak hardwood flooring is quite porous, enabling it to be stained easily to a wide variety of colors to meet the needs of any interior design.
Wide plank Red Oak hardwood flooring is simply Oak hardwood flooring fashioned from floorboards that are much wider than the narrow planks used in commercial hardwood flooring. At Carlisle Wide plank Floors, we produce Red Oak hardwood flooring with boards as wide as 12″ and up to 14′ long. Compared to traditional wood flooring – with boards that are 3″ wide or less and 4′ long or less – wide plank Red Oak hardwood flooring offers greater durability and it easily becomes a stunning design feature in any home or business. With fewer seams between boards, wide plank wood floors create a sense of expansiveness, with the beauty and grain patterns of the wood allowed to fully emerge in every floorboard.
Carlisle customers choose wide plank Red Oak hardwood flooring for several reasons:
In addition to Red Oak, Carlisle offers solid wood floors in White Oak, Ash, Birch, Cherry, Brown Maple, White Maple, Walnut, and Hickory.
Red Oak solid hardwood flooring can be customized in any number of ways to create a one-of-a-kind wood floor for your home or business.
Grade of wood – At Carlisle, customizing your Red Oak floors starts with choosing a flooring grade to meet your needs. Heirloom Grade offers a more refined and luxurious look, with planks that have fewer knots and less color variation. Our Signature Grade offers hand-selected planks that provide the perfect balance btween some more refined boards from our Hierloom grade while also incorporating boards with more character like knots and mineral streaking. (Choosing rift sawn or quartersawn White Oak can also help distinguish a floor – at Carlisle, these cutting techniques are available for White Oak timber only.)
Structure of the floorboards – Carlisle offers Red Oak hardwood flooring in both solid and engineered wood. Solid wood flooring is made with boards cut from a single piece of hardwood timber, while engineered hardwood flooring is created by gluing multiple layers of wood and material together. Engineered Red Oak wood flooring has a thick top layer of Red Oak, with sub layers made from a suitable plywood substrate. This construction method creates a highly stable floorboard that is suitable for installation in areas where moisture fluctuations may be greater – in basements, concrete slabs and radiant heating systems, for example.
Texture of the floor – Texturing or distressing Red Oak solid wood flooring can help to create the appearance of floors that have been walked on and lived on for generations. Carlisle specializes in number of methods – including hand-scraped edges, wire brush techniques and several exclusive and proprietary techniques – that can turn new timber into floorboards that seem to have been smoothed and weathered by age and wear.
Color and finish – Red Oak solid hardwood flooring and engineered wood flooring can easily be stained and finished in a wide variety of ways. Carlisle offers a virtually unlimited pallet of stain colors to meet your design needs. Our wood flooring is available as unfinished or prefinished products. Prefinished floors are sanded, stained and sealed in our factory before they are shipped to your home or business, allowing you to avoid the mess and inconvenience of finishing your floor on site.
Pattern of installation – Installing Red Oak hardwood flooring with a Herringbone, Chevron or custom parquet pattern immediately adds elegance and visual interest to your space.
Red Oak solid hardwood flooring is generally among the easiest floors to install, and Carlisle wide plank floors make the job even simpler. By producing high end wood flooring to your exacting standards, we make sure there are no hiccups when it comes to the installation process. Wide plank wood floors have fewer boards overall, helping to speed installation. And our oak wood flooring can be installed using any combination of nails, staples and glue. Prefinished Red Oak hardwood flooring provides the fastest and simplest installation of all, as there is no sanding, staining or finishing required on-site.
Simply put, Carlisle wide plank flooring is unlike any other hardwood flooring on the market. For more than 50 years, we have led the industry in crafting one-of-a-kind masterpieces for exceptional homes, businesses, boutiques, restaurants and museums. Your solid hardwood flooring or engineered wood floor in Red Oak, Hickory, Birch or Maple will be handcrafted by New England artisans with a true love and feel for fine wood – craftsman who painstakingly inspect every board to produce a floor that reflects your sense of style and beauty, and that will amaze and delight you every time you walk through the door. The quality and durability of our floors is matched only by our customer experience. Our team is ready at every turn to offer expert advice, helpful guidance and insightful answers to your every question. Our commitment to perfection ensures that your Carlisle wide plank Red Oak wood flooring will enhance your space for years to come.
