Rift Sawn Wood Flooring

It is widely used in paneling and architectural millwork especially in modern contemporary settings.

Rift sawn wood flooring. This is primarily due to a more limited availability of quarter sawn lumber both because of the lower number of boards made from each log and combined with a much smaller number of suppliers producing this kind of lumber. The annular rings or a rift sawn board are about 30 60 degrees to the face of the board but 45 degrees is the most optimum. White oak is a standard in wood flooring well known for its hardness grains and flexibility with different home designs. Whether you are looking for quarter sawn rift sawn or mixed rift quarter sawn midwest hardwood corporation s mills have the experience to bring a consistent colored.

An rq flooring board expands up and down as opposed to side to side as plain sawn floor board would. Rift sawn white oak is favored in markets wanting a more homogeneous look. Similar to quarter sawn lumber rift sawn lumber is also referred to as radial grain. For wood flooring this means that rift and quarter sawn material is less prone to seasonal gapping expanding contracting or cupping making it very desirable for flooring.

Rift sawn lumber is usually used with oak to avoid the flecks that are common in the species. Rift quarter sawn oak provides a beautiful floor and combine its unique characteristics with our milling of white oak and this is the resulting beautiful flooring.