When most of us think of wood flooring, we think of Oak. Oak hardwood flooring has been the traditional floor covering used throughout the world for centuries: from elegant European Castles to Rural Farmhouses.

Oak is typically used as a comparison point when rating other species of wood, in terms of hardness. The Wood Flooring industry uses the Janka Hardness Test where they take a wood species and press a steel ball bearing into it until half the steel ball is below the surface of the wood. The force (in pounds) it takes to do this is then measured to calculate the Hardness Rating of that specific wood species. The amount of force needed to push the steel ball into the wood establishes the wood species hardness rating and place on the Janka Hardness Scale. Oak rates about 1300 on this scale.







Big and Majestic.
Oak Hardwood Flooring provide us with interesting natural graining, natural color and natural character.

Oak Hardwood is a renewable, environmentally "Green" resource which is readily available in the United States.

There are many different species of Oaks available for hardwood flooring. The two that consumers are most familiar with are Red Oak and White Oak.

Red Oak flooring is the more traditional choice of the two Oaks. Red Oak is popular for its light golden to reddish pink tones and its more unique, "wilder" graining patterns.

White Oak flooring has been noted as the harder of the two, having less pronounced, finer graining and a more warmer golden, brown color. White Oak flooring is also more stable and because of it being harder, it accepts stain colors more evenly than Red Oak flooring does. Because of its more stable properties, White Oak has been known to have been used for hundreds of years in the building of boats, truck beds, wooden wagon wheels and wine barrels.

Red Oak and White Oak flooring have been used in a variety of board widths and thicknesses over the years --- from 17th century 12 to 20 inch wide planks to the more commonly used 2-1/4 inch strip Oak flooring we see today. The current consumer trend is using 3-1/4 inch wide boards. This allows for a more unique appearance than the traditional narrow 2-1/4 wide floor board but wouldn't go so far as giving the home an older country feel of wider 4-8 inch wide floor boards. Using 4-8 inch or wider boards gives the home a unique dramatic country or rustic feel.

Hosking Hardwood Flooring has many styles and sizes of both Red Oak and White Oak flooring available in either solid or engineered designs. You can click on the links below to check out our low prices on the very best Red and White Oak flooring selections!

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Red Oak
Bruce Timberland Red Oak Natural
Mercier Select & Better Grade Red Oak
Mercier Country Grade (more character) Red Oak Natural
Bruce Dundee Plank Red Oak Natural
Muskoka Red Oak Natural Engineered
Mannington Click Locking Red Oak Stained
Mannington Red Oak Natural and Stained

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White Oak
White Mountain Flooring White Oak Natural
White Mountain Flooring 3-1/4 White Oak
Bruce Liberty Plains White Oak Natural
Somerset White Oak Natural
Kahrs White Oak Click Lock Longstrip