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We provide a Nationwide Wood Flooring service both commercial and  domestic for traditional and contemporary wooden  flooring. Whether its a block of apartments or simply a room in your home Mercia  Flooring will give you the same professional service and attention  to ensure that you get the floor that you want.
 

Mercia Flooring
59 The Square
Dunchurch
Rugby
CV22 6NJ

 


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Wood Flooring Natural Variations in Appearance

Why doesn't what you bought look like the sample in the showroom?

Unlike factory made, artificial materials, each hardwood board has a unique life story. During the approximate 50 years or so that it takes for a hardwood tree to mature, each tree develops a one-of-a-kind grain pattern and texture.

Natural hardwood products are never as uniform as plastic laminate or wallpaper from a catalogue and there lies the individual beauty for each buyer. You will have a unique product in your home

Solid hardwood products, like silks, leather and precious stones, are shaped by natural forces and they may display a variety of character markings.

Even boards from the same hardwood tree will show significant variation in color. For instance, "younger" wood closer to the bark (sapwood) will be lighter than that which comes from the central portion (Heartwood). You can also see the effects of the minerals and other essential elements that the trees absorbed as they grew. For example the yellow flecks that are evident in Merbau.

Even the way the tree is cut will vary and will add individuality to your floor.
Boards can be cut from a hardwood log in several directions: tangent to the annual rings (plain-sawn or flat-sawn), or radially, across the rings (quarter-sawn and rift-sawn).

Arched or flame-shaped markings, evident in bold-grained hardwoods such as oak, characterise plain-sawn wood, while rift-sawn and quarter-sawn or "quartered" boards show a pattern of roughly parallel lines.

How the wood flooring appearance is determined

No two pieces of hardwood are alike and because of this, your particular item of flooring looks like no other in the world...including those in the showroom. 

 

 

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