Wood Floor Warehouse

A solid wood floor is just as the name suggests, one piece of solid wood from top to bottom. Often finished with oil or lacquer and with tongue and groove edges The manufacturing process is simple. Raw material logs and trunks of the chosen timber are cut down at saw mills worldwide into various lengths, widths and thicknesses. These raw timbers are then transferred to flooring factories where they are graded and further refined by cutting to specified sizes. They are then sanded and often machined with tongue and grooved ends or beveled edges. The cut timbers are then kiln dried to bring them to a specific moisture level suited to the destination country. This creates an unfinished solid wood floor suitable for the consumer. Often the floor is prefinished with a lacquer or oil before packing into boxes. At Wood Floor Warehouse all of our solid wood floors come pre-finished.

Dating back, solid timbers such as oak they were used only as structural materials, which were then covered with decorative surfaces such as carpets or stone. Once the beauty of finished timbers were realised it was common to strip back the floor covering to reveal the beautiful timbers below. They would then often be sanded and finished in oils or lacquers. Of course, nowadays sub-floors are constructed from floorboards with a decorative wood floor installed on top.