Black Cherry Wood Floors

Countryplank offers a variety of grades and styles of cherry flooring to suit your tastes and budget.

Black cherry wood floors.

Leaf of a black cherry tree. Black cherry is a species which presents with potentially significant color variations in boards. Black cherry is about 26 softer than a northern red oak wood with a rating of 950 on the janka hardness scale. 443 280 1517 email.

American black cherry is an exceptional choice for hardwood plank flooring. Other names black cherry capulin cherry chisos wild cherry choke cherry edwards plateau cherry escarpment cherry gila choke cherry mountain black cherry new england mahogany plum rum cherry southwestern chokecherry whiskey. Freshly cut cherry is often very pale but the wood oxidizes to its famously favorable rich brown red in time. Black cherry presents with a uniform grain texture which is fine and wavy.

If lower grade larger logs are sawn to exclude sapwood and further manufacture eliminates sapwood in the product fencing cladding furniture cherry is an excellent exterior wood. Black cherry sapwood in not rot resistant at all most cherry is sawn for grade and nearly all boards contain sapwood often both faces.