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Unfinished Red Oak flooring just may be the world’s most popular hardwood flooring surface. The perfect balance of beauty, strength and affordability, a Red Oak floor warms any room and can adapt to any design scheme. It’s equally at home as formal living room flooring and casual family room flooring or kitchen hardwood flooring. And the density and durability of Red Oak ensure that your hardwood floor will be around for generations to come.
At Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, you’ll find lots of options for wide plank unfinished Red Oak flooring. Our design consultants can help you explore the possibilities for color and texture as well as width and structure to create a singular wide plank wood floor that will amaze and delight you every time you enter the room.
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ExploreWhen choosing unfinished Red Oak flooring from Carlisle, you’ll have lots of options for making your wide plank hardwood floor your own. Your Carlisle design consultant will walk you through all your possible choices, which include:
Yes. Red Oak is one of the easiest hardwoods to stain, thanks to its porous grain and lower levels of tannins in the wood. At Carlisle, we offer a virtually limitless choice of stain colors and can easily match the color of almost any item you bring or send to us.
Red Oak is a medium hardwood, with a 1290 rating on the Janka hardness scale. It's softer than White Oak, Brown Maple and Hickory, but harder than Black Walnut, Cherry and Heart Pine. When comparing Red Oak vs. Maple or Hickory, for example, the harder Maple and Hickory floors will resist dents and scratches more easily, but the prominent grain pattern of Red Oak will do a better job of camouflaging them.
Cleaning Red Oak flooring is easy. Before the floor is finished with a sealant, you can sweep or vacuum the floor. Avoid using lots of water or liquid cleaning products, as they may leave a stain or mark on the wood. After your hardwood floor has been finished, the easiest way to clean it is with a light application of water and a little vinegar.
Red and White Oak are American species, while French Oak is a European species. Red Oak is lighter and pinker than White Oak, which has darker, brownish hues. Solid French Oak flooring is quite similar to White Oak, but it has higher levels of tannins which make it more resistant to moisture but harder to stain.
Absolutely. Engineered floorboards are made with a top layer of hardwood and multiple layers of backing material. By gluing all the layers together, manufacturers create a floorboard that's more stable in conditions where moisture may change drastically. Carlisle makes the most stable and durable engineered flooring on the market and can easily produce unfinished Red Oak flooring made with engineered floorboards. Engineered floors are not to be confused with laminate flooring. While the top layer of an engineered floor is made of solid hardwood, a laminate floor is purely synthetic. The top layer is imprinted with a design that can look like wood, tile, cork, or even fabric, while the bottom layer is made of particle board.
Yes. Distressing or texturing a floor is a popular technique for giving a new floor the appearance of a surface that has been lived on for generations. Carlisle craftsmen use both common and proprietary techniques to texture new Red Oak planks to make them look like floorboards that were produced by early sawmills and that have been worn down over time.
Unfinished solid hardwood flooring is intended to be finished after it's installed in your home. Prefinished flooring arrives ready for installation, having been already sanded, stained and sealed at our manufacturing facility. Prefinished hardwood flooring make for faster and less costly installation. A prefinished hardwood floor also lets you skip the mess, odor and inconvenience of sanding and finishing a floor on site.
At Carlisle, we’ve been crafting the finest hardwood flooring in the country for more than 50 years. Your Carlisle wide plank floor will be handcrafted to your exact specifications and will be the perfect expression of your sense of style and beauty. We know every aspect of your wood floor matters – from the right shade of stain to the nuance of a hand-scraped edge, and our artisan woodworkers tend to every detail to ensure that unfinished Red Oak flooring from Carlisle will exceed your expectations.
While the quality of our hardwood floors is remarkable, the dedication of our customer service teams is truly exceptional. From your first phone call or visit to a showroom through the choice of wood, color, texture and installation, we’ll work with you to define and realize your vision for unfinished Red Oak flooring that will be the perfect surface for your home for generations to come.
