The history of american chestnut lends itself to the beauty of this flooring.
Chestnut hardwood flooring.
Highly resistant to decay chestnuts were used in a variety of applications from furniture and split rail fences to chestnut hardwood flooring and telephone poles.
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Chestnut is part of the dicot group along with cherry oak maple ash and walnut which makes them all hardwoods.
Heritage mill hickory chestnut 3 8 in.
Reclaimed chestnut floors are made with floorboards fashioned from wood that has been salvaged from old buildings slated for demolition.
Wormy chestnut flooring is milled from old barn boards and at times we mill lumber sawn from old barn timbers.
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These types should only be installed sold wood flooring is permanently nailed down to a sub floor and a normal gap between the wall and floor to accommodate swelling.
Hardwood comes from dicot trees and softwood comes from gymnosperm trees.
We are thrilled with our wormy chestnut floor.
From barns and farmhouses to factories and old homes these fading structures yield aged and weathered chestnut timbers full of nail holes wormholes cracks splits color variations saw marks and other imperfections creating a rich character that only.
Hardwood and softwood refer to the type of tree the wood comes from.
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It is truly beautiful.
For centuries the american chestnut was prized for its strong straight grained wood that was easy to saw and split.
Is chestnut a hardwood or a softwood.