ID type of wood flooring?

stuart45

It can be difficult to identify wood from the grain, even for a joiner. 
Oak for example comes in different grades, with the premium grade having fewer knots than the pub grade, which is what I used in our extension.

travis-powers

It looks like rubber wood however there are all sorts of timber coming on the market now, the only way to determine is by cell structure, if it was oak or beech it would say so on the box.

ThisIsWeird

Seemingly it's 22mm thick, and solid, so bludy expensive stuff.
They're assuming it's Junckers Beech, and it should become clear when some extra bits are required.
Cheers all.

jennifernil

ThisIsWeird said:

Thanks for your thoughts.
It's definitely a hardwood, I'd say. It's like oak in places, but not quite.
The sanding cove reckoned it was Junckers Beech, which is plausible, but it seemed too nicely grained to me for Beech, and too much variety? Hence me wondering.
What is 'Junckers' anyway?
Ta.

Junckers is a Danish manufacturer of flooring and worktops, originally mainly beech as they have a lot of beech trees in Denmark, but they do a wide range of other timbers as well these days.

In our hallway we have Junckers beech flooring, laid in 1988, your brother’s floor looks nothing like ours.  Ours is lighter in colour and more uniform.
It could be some kind of oak, appearance varies between European oak and American oak, plus you get the ones they call “rustic”, which are generally more varied in colour with more knots.   

We also have a lot of Junckers beech worktops , also from 1988, and a couple of IKEA ones from the early 2000s, the quality of the Junckers  ones is far superior to the IKEA ones, but then they did cost about 5 times as much!  The finish you can achieve on them is so much smoother.

I have also seen worktops in what is referred to as “rustic beech”, so that may be a possibility too.

If you look on the Junckers website you can see pictures of all their different floors.


https://www.junckers.co.uk/wood-flooring/solid-hardwood-flooring/oak-wooden-flooring

ThisIsWeird

Interesting stuff, Jennifer - thank you.
Hmm, I agree, to me Beech doesn't have that variation either. 
What finish is on your floor - does it look like 'clear', or could it have been dyed to make it look more even?
I can't see anything remotely like this on the Junckers site you linked to, except the 'oak nature', and that's a 'plank', whereas this is '2-strip'? But, this floor was taken back to bare wood before Junckers 'priming', two coats of which gave it that glow.
I've asked bro if he has good pics of the original floor, and that might help tie it down to one in the site.
Thanks.

jennifernil

Ours is still the original clear finish as supplied, has a very slight sheen.  Over the years it has darkened a little with exposure to light, we have a mat by the front door for dirty shoes and when you lift it the area below is noticably lighter.  I do not think it has been dyed to make it more uniform, there are planks here and there that are a little different, slightly darker, more knots.  All that depends on which part of the tree a plank has been cut from.  Ours is the 2 strip plank.

Looking at the pictures on the website, ours looks to be the Beech 2 strip, while your brother’s is more like the Beech Raw  Sugar or the Driftwood grey oak in colour.

How old is the floor?   It may be a variety that they no longer sell, so would not be on the current website.