Maple Flooring – Floor Design & Restoration
Naturally Wood Floors are centrally located to serve clients in Essex, Suffolk, Kent, London, Middlesex, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire for Maple floor design, laying and renovation. We provide the complete flooring package to supply and install beautiful maple flooring for your home or business and have an extensive range of maple flooring products for you to choose from including engineered flooring and solid T&G wood blocks.
Our maple flooring also comes in a huge range of bespoke parquet flooring designs such as herringbone, double herringbone, 5:1 basket, chevron, treble basket weave, single basket weave and parquet strip. We also have a choice of parquet motifs to compliment your bespoke parquet maple flooring.
Our fully trained and experienced staff will professionally lay all our maple flooring types for you.
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Why Choose Maple Flooring
Canadian maple flooring is harder than oak, which gives it superb durability and makes it suitable for high traffic areas of your home or for a business premises. Canadian Maple has a visible grain but it is not as prominent as in many other hardwoods. Its white, bright colour will reflect light to give a sense of space in your home or work place. Maple is a popular choice for furniture and our maple flooring will work well along side any existing pieces you may have. The yellow, honey tones of maple wood give it a warm quality, which is inviting to the eye and comfortable underfoot. Maple’s natural light tones, gives a very contemporary look to your home.
Maple flooring is also ideal for business properties. It is especially good for dance floors because of its hardness and excellent stability even when using narrow widths of the wood.
About Maple Flooring
There are over 120 different varieties of Maple Tree mostly found in East Asia, with some from Europe and North America. The Canadian Maple has the Latin name Acer Rubrum, which is derived from the genus Acer. In the east part of North America the deciduous Maple tree can be seen everywhere. It particularly has a long association with furniture making in the USA. The tree flowers in the spring and these along with the seeds and twigs on a Canadian Maple tree all have a red tinge. In autumn the colour is most prevalent when the leaves turn a deep crimson. The red maple leaf is a famous image recognized all over the world from the Canadian flag.
When they are young the maple tree has a smooth bark, which grows darker brown and rough with maturity. Some maple trees grow to between 10 and 45 metres tall. However some species are not so big, only reaching the size of a standard shrub. These maples are valued for their ornamental properties making them ideal for the art of bonsai.
Maple wood has a resonance, which makes it a favourite for musical instruments. This tonal quality carries sound waves perfectly for woodwind instruments, violins, violas, cellos, double bass and drums. Maple wood guitar necks and fingerboards are popular choices for many manufacturers and some guitars with carved maple necks are collector’s items. Maple wood is also used for sport to produce bowling pins, snooker cues and baseball bats.
After timber, the main commercial property of the Maple tree is for maple syrup. This is made by boiling the sap to give a molasses type consistency and is popular in America poured on pancakes for breakfast.
Maple’s are hardy trees and therefore produce a high quality, medium hard timber, which is perfect not only for furniture but also flooring. Our Maple flooring originates from Canada. It is pale white wood with a hint of yellow and black flecks in the grain. These can deepen over time, as the yellow tones become more prominent, giving it a warm golden honey glow. Maple is a medium to hard wood.
About Naturally Wood
Since the early 1900’s the hardwood flooring trade can be traced back in our family. Back then floors were installed and sanded by hand but now we combine these traditional methods with up to date machinery. We use only top quality materials and our own fully trained team of installers and floor restorers to enable us to offer you the complete flooring package.
Naturally Wood Floors are committed to giving you the best possible product and service. We specialise in the installation and restoration of all types of real wood floors including parquet floors, aged and distressed floors, engineered floors, strip floors, mosaic floors and wood block floors.
At Naturally Wood Floors the company directors have a very hands on approach and manage the day to day running of the business. This means we are totally involved at every stage from dealing with your initial enquiry, carrying out the survey, talking through your requirements, giving you a quotation and supervising your particular job.
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