Solid Oak Flooring
Naturally Wood Floors specialise in solid oak flooring, creating beautiful bespoke floor designs for customers in Essex, London, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and Kent. We offer a wide range of solid oak flooring products, oak parquet flooring including parquet borders and motifs, aged and distressed oak flooring, engineered oak flooring, solid T&G strip flooring, solid T&G wood blocks, end grain blocks and mosaic panels. Naturally Wood Floors can professionally design, install and repair all of these types of solid oak flooring for you.
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About Oak Flooring
The Oak tree is tall and strong and although conditions will affect its growth rate, it can reach impressive heights of around 60 to 100 feet. An oak tree was featured on the sixpence coin and the shilling and it is also present in a lot of Greek and Roman mythology being associated with Zeus and Jupiter.
There are hundreds of types of Oak trees, with approximately 25 native to Europe and 60 species in America, including both deciduous and evergreen varieties. Oak trees produce acorns, which take between six and eighteen months to grow but the trees themselves can take hundreds of years to fully mature eventually producing an attractive and popular timber.
There are all sorts of colour variations seen in oak timber, depending not only on the exact species of oak, but also the growing conditions from tree to tree. These can range from white to dark brown depending upon the type of oak flooring you choose. This gives you a fantastic choice to fit into the décor of your home and whatever colour is right for you, solid oak flooring will always exude that warmth that comes from a natural, beautiful solid oak wood.
Oak trees produce a highly attractive and durable timber, which is a much sought after building material. It is perfect for flooring and furniture. It is even used for barrels for red wine, sherry, brandy and whisky as it adds a unique colour and rich taste to the alcohol. Due to its strength oak was used to construct ships right up until the 19th century, showing it’s hard wearing, strong and sturdy qualities. This makes oak wood the ideal material for your flooring – in any room of the house, as it is extremely durable even in high traffic areas.
Oak is the worlds most widely used hardwood and can be separated into two main varieties, red and white oak:
American Red Oak – originates from America. It has a hint of red in the grain and is of a medium hardness.
French Oak Quarter Sawn – originates from France. It is light brown with a very straight grain and Meddulery Ray figuring. It is of a medium hardness.
French Oak Flat Sawn – originates from France. It is golden light brown with a very dark grain and of a medium hardness.
French Oak Natural – originates from France. It is golden light brown with small knots and a dark grain. It is of a medium hardness.
French Oak Rustic – originates from France. It is golden light brown with medium to large knots and a dark grain. It is of a medium hardness.
French Oak Rustic Extra – originates from France. It is golden light brown with large knots, small splits and a dark grain. It is of a medium hardness.
American White Oak – originates from America. It is similar to French oak but has a hint of red in the grain and is also of a medium hardness.
Why Choose Oak Flooring
Oak flooring is the most popular choice for wooden floors in the home, due to its beautiful appearance, which exudes a sense of strength, style and beauty. Its natural tones and warm honey colour, which can vary from very dark to the pale solid white oak flooring produced by Florence also make it popular in a wide range of business premises including shops, restaurants and hotels. We have varieties with natural markings, bands, lines and knots, a selection of finishes and a choice of bevelled edges, giving your floor a pronounced look or flat edges to create a smooth veneer.
Many customers enjoy the traditional look of solid oak flooring and find it compliments their oak furniture beautifully. With Naturally Wood Floors wide choice of oak flooring, with warranties lasting from 20 years upwards, it is not only attractive to the eye but dependable too. Solid oak flooring also comes in our biggest range of flooring types, including parquet flooring, aged and distressed, engineered, solid T&G strip and wood block flooring, end block and mosaic panels.
About Naturally Wood
Naturally Wood Floors specialise in the design, installation, restoration and repair of solid wood floors. Floors can be customised to suit your home or business with a wide variety of wood styles, shades, finishes and plank widths on offer. Once you have chosen your design Naturally Wood Floors swill lay your floor for you and advise you on special touches like our range of borders, motifs and finishes which will make your solid wood floor individual and distinctive to your taste and style.
Solid Oak Flooring - click here to browse our range of solid oak flooring products.
