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Red Oak Engineered Hardwood 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.

In forests, the northern red oak grows straight and tall, to 35 m (115 ft), exceptionally to 43 m (140 ft) tall, with a trunk of up to 1 m (3 ft) diameter; open-grown trees do not get so tall, but can develop a stouter trunk, up to 2 m (6 ft) in diameter. It has stout branches growing at right angles to the stem, forming a narrow round-topped head. It grows rapidly and is tolerant of many soils and varied situations, although it prefers the glacial drift and well-drained borders of streams.[2]

Detail of mature barkUnder optimal conditions, northern red oak is fast growing and trees may live up to 500 years.[3] A 10-year-old tree will be 5-6 m (15-20 ft) tall.[4]

Northern red oak is easy to recognize by its bark, which feature bark ridges that appear to have shiny stripes down the center. A few other oaks have bark with this kind of appearance in the upper tree, but the northern red oak is the only tree with the striping all the way down the trunk.

Bark: Dark reddish gray brown, with broad, thin, rounded ridges, scaly. On young trees and large stems, smooth and light gray. Rich in tannic acid. Branchlets slender, at first bright green, shining, then dark red, finally dark brown. Bark is brownish gray, becoming dark brown on old trees.

Wood: Pale reddish brown, sapwood darker, heavy, hard, strong, coarse-grained. Checks in drying, but when carefully treated could be successfully used for furniture. Also used in construction and for interior finish of houses. Sp. gr., 0.6621; weight of cu. ft., 41.25 lbs.

Winter buds: Dark chestnut brown, ovate, acute, one-fourth of an inch long.
Leaves: Alternate, seven to nine-lobed, oblong-ovate to oblong, five to ten inches long, four to six inches broad; seven to eleven lobes tapering gradually from broad bases, acute, and usually repandly dentate and terminating with long bristle-pointed teeth; the second pair of lobes from apex are largest; midrib and primary veins conspicuous. Lobes are less deeply cut than most other oaks of the red oak group (except for black oak which can be similar). Leaves emerge from the bud convolute, pink, covered with soft silky down above, coated with thick white tomentum below. When full grown are dark green and smooth, sometimes shining above, yellow green, smooth or hairy on the axils of the veins below. In autumn they turn a rich red, sometimes brown. Often the petiole and midvein are a rich red color in midsummer and early autumn, though this is not true of all red oaks. Petioles are stout, one to two inches long, often red; stipules caducous.
Flowers: May, when leaves are half grown. Staminate aments four to five inches long, hairy. Calyx four to five-lobed, greenish; stamens four to five; filaments slender; anthers yellow. Pistillate flowers borne on short peduncles; involucral scales broadly ovate, dark reddish-brown; stigmas elongated, bright green.

Acorns: Ripen in the spring of the second year, about 18 months after pollination; solitary or in pairs, sessile or stalked; nut oblong-ovoid with broad flat base, full, with acute apex, one half to one and one-fourth of an inch long, first green, maturing nut-brown; cup, saucer-shaped and shallow, 2cm (0.8 in) wide, usually covering only the base, sometimes one-fourth of the nut, thick, shallow, reddish brown, somewhat downy within, covered with thin imbricated reddish brown scales. Kernel white and very bitter.[2] Despite this bitterness, they are eaten by deer, squirrels and birds.
[edit] Uses

The northern red oak is one of the most important oaks for timber production in North America. The wood is of high value. Other related oaks are also cut and marketed as Red Oak, although their wood is not always of as high a quality. These include black oak, scarlet oak, pin oak, shumard oak, southern red oak and other species in the red oak group. The northern red oak is widely planted and naturalized also in Central Europe.

Red oak wood grain is so open that smoke can be blown through it from end-grain to end-grain on a flatsawn board.

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.

Engineered hardwood 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 engineered hardwood 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.

Red Oak Engineered Hardwood Flooring