I m looking at a brand called nature flooring.
Tauari flooring problems.
Sanding the wooden flooring in your home will release tiny particles of wood that has been treated with a number of chemicals that are not intended to enter your body and cause very serious health problems.
Tauari is a nice lumber which can be modified by different color techniques.
A tauari tree can be up to 50 meter high.
Detailed scientific and mechanical properties for tauari brazilian oak hardwood lumber.
It is similar to that of golden teak but 13 harder than north american oak.
It is 40 harder than red oak and 24 more stable.
Texture is generally coarse to medium.
Brazilian oak also known as tauari is similar to north american red oak but 13 harder.
It ranges from tan to medium brown in color and has a medium graining pattern.
Couratari oblongifolia brazilian oak.
Bruce flooring provided the kempus which is ranked very close to brazilian cherry in terms of hardness quality and durabiity.
Second tauari wood flooring is not so sensitive when expose on sunlight as to cumaru jatoba etc.
Third the wood grain comes more with straight fine similar to beech wood.
In addition to providing the highly sought after wheat color.
Basically tauari falls right in the middle of hardness as far as flooring goes.
It ranges from tan to medium brown in color and has a medium graining pattern.
I have not experienced any problems with installation or wear and tear and it was installed in 2005.
The grade a wood is used for furniture flooring and veneer industry.
The heartwood color is cream or cream white with a pinkish or yellowish tinge.
Although tauari is not so hard as cumaru still it is a very good wood material on strength dimensional stability on hot wet conditions therefore tauari hardwood flooring is considered as a qualified material for solid wood flooring use.
Scientific name other names.
Brazilian oak flooring is rated at approximately 1 650 on the janka rating chart.
The south american origin tauari also called brazilian oak hardwood flooring is a little bit special comparing with other tropical wood species from south america.
However not all charts are created equal so there is some discrepancy.
The grain is uniformly interlocked.
The whole floor is 1 2 thick but the top layer is about half as thick as the br 111 and then i came across the conflicting janka ratings.
I too fell in love with kempas hardwood over brazilian cherry.
Tauari is more similar to cold climate area grown hardwood like oak beech etc.
That led me to the tauari which as you say is more tan.
So now i m not sure what to do.
Tauari hardwood flooring.
