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Oak Engineered Hardwood Flooring Flooring
HARDWOOD FLOORING TYPES & DESIGNS

As an engineered hardwood flooring manufacturer serving the trade, FloorLayers™ satisfies your demands. We stock a wide variety of wood species from all over the world at our 3-acre facility. And if you’re seeking an unusual species, we’ll gladly have our global sourcing agents procure it for you. With Engineered Hardwood Flooring by FloorLayers, your customers get to choose—and this gives you the “value-added” benefit that a custom wood floor warrants.

Most importantly, you can finish your engineered hardwood flooring to your exact specifications—so color and finish meet your requirements. In fact, most floors are shipped unfinished for that exact reason. Custom hand scraping and finishing is also available.

Select an engineered hardwood flooring type to see the design possibilities available. If you need assistance, call 714-998-5050 and one of our floor specialists will assist you.

Oak wood has a density of about 0.75 g/cm³, great strength and hardness, and is very resistant to insect and fungal attack because of its high tannin content. It also has very attractive grain markings, particularly when quartersawn. Wide, quarter-sawn boards of oak have been prized since the Middle Ages for use in interior paneling of prestigious buildings such as the debating chamber of the British House of Commons in London, England, and in the construction of fine furniture. Oak wood, from Quercus robur and Quercus petraea, was used in Europe for the construction of ships, especially naval men of war, until the 19th century, and was the principal timber used in the construction of European timber-framed buildings. Today oakwood is still commonly used for furniture making and flooring, timber frame buildings, and for veneer production. Barrels in which red wines, sherry, brandy and spirits such as Scotch whisky and Bourbon whiskey are aged are made from European and American oak. The use of oak in wine can add many different dimensions to wine based on the type and style of the oak. Oak barrels, which may be charred before use, contribute to the colour, taste, and aroma, of the contents, imparting a desirable oaky vanillin flavour to these drinks. The great dilemma for wine producers is to choose between French and American oakwoods. French oaks (Quercus robur, Q. petraea) give the wine greater refinement and are chosen for best wines since they increase the price compared to those aged in American oak wood. American oak contributes greater texture and resistance to ageing, but produces more violent wine bouquets. Oak wood chips are used for smoking fish, meat, cheeses[11][12] and other foods.


Sherry maturing in oak barrels
A cross section of the trunk of a cork oak, Quercus suberThe bark of Quercus suber, or Cork oak, is used to produce wine stoppers (corks). This species grows in the Mediterranean Sea region, with Portugal, Spain, Algeria and Morocco producing most of the world's supply. Of the North American oaks, the Northern red oak Quercus rubra is the most prized of the red oak group for lumber, all of which is marketed as red oak regardless of the species of origin. It is not good for outdoor use due to the open capillaries. One can blow air through an end grain piece 10 inches long to make bubbles come out in a glass of water. These opening give fungus easy access when the finish deteriorates. The standard for the lumber of the white oak group, all of which is marketed as white oak, is the White Oak Quercus alba. White Oak is often used to make wine barrels. The wood of the deciduous Pedunculate Oak Quercus robur and Sessile Oak Quercus petraea account for most of the European oak production, but evergreen species, such as Holm oak Quercus ilex, and Cork oak Quercus suber also produce valuable timber.

The bark of the White Oak is dried and used in medical preparations. Oak bark is also rich in tannin, and is used by tanners for tanning leather. Acorns are used for making flour or roasted for acorn coffee. Oak galls were used for centuries as the main ingredient in manuscript ink, harvested at a specific time of year.

Japanese oak is used in the making of professional drums from manufacturer Yamaha Drums. The rough, hard surface of oak gives the drum a brighter and louder tone compared to traditional drum materials such as maple and birch.[citation needed]

As an Oak Engineered Hardwood Flooring flooring manufacturer serving the trade, FloorLayers™ satisfies your demands. We stock a wide variety of wood species from all over the world at our 3-acre facility. And if you’re seeking an unusual species, we’ll gladly have our global sourcing agents procure it for you. With Oak Engineered Hardwood Flooring Flooring by FloorLayers, your customers get to choose—and this gives you the “value-added” benefit that a custom wood floor warrants.

Most importantly, you can finish your Oak Engineered Hardwood Flooring flooring to your exact specifications—so color and finish meet your requirements. In fact, most floors are shipped unfinished for that exact reason. Custom hand scraping and finishing is also available.

Select an Oak Engineered Hardwood Flooring flooring type to see the design possibilities available. If you need assistance, call 714-998-5050 and one of our floor specialists will assist you.

Oak Engineered Hardwood Flooring flooring can be manufactured in any width, or multiple widths up to 10 inches wide; as well as any length or multiple lengths up to 12 ft long. That flexibility in size and style makes for infinite design possibilities. Most patterns are available, however, if you have special needs, call us at 714-998-5050.

• Custom hand scraping and finishing available
• Select grade, light character grade and character grade
• Square, bevel, radius edges and ends
• Random lengths up to 12 ft long
• Tongue and groove plank flooring
• Widths up to 10 inches wide

FloorLayers™ cares about the environment and takes responsibility by ensuring that all source material is purchased from suppliers who are concerned about the preservation of our natural resources. FloorLayers purchases raw material from suppliers who implement only the highest standards in forestry practices, thus assuring the conservation and replenishment of our forests.

More importantly, our proprietary manufacturing process actually saves trees. The flooring yield from our one-of-a-kind engineering is 4 times greater than a conventional hardwood floor. This means that FloorLayers can produce the same amount of Oak Engineered Hardwood Flooring flooring from one tree where a typical flooring maker would require 4 trees to equal the same square footage. We think of it as preserving our forests—one tree at a time.

Oak Engineered Hardwood Flooring