Installing Brazilian Chestnut Flooring

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Installing brazilian chestnut flooring.

It provides detailed instructions for installing hardwood flooring over a wood substructure. When installing solid or engineered hardwood flooring over a radiant heat flooring system only approved floors will have a warranty. Brazilian chestnut ranks at 3540 on the janka scale which makes it more then double the hardness of red oak 1290. As a floor covering brazilian walnut commonly known as ipe has a lot going for it.

Brazilian chestnut is absolutely a gorgeous flooring choice for any home or work area. Second cherry changes color dramatically especially in the first year. How to install brazilian walnut floors. Some of these species are but not limited to.

It features brownish red to tan color tones. It s one of the hardest woods in existence and it naturally. At the bottom we provide links to posts on the tools we use and frequently recommend for hardwood. The last time i put in brazilian cherry the client literally agreed not to put any furniture on it for 8 weeks and no rugs on it for a year.

Brazilian chestnut hardwood flooring also known as sucupira is a hard extremely dense exotic hardwood. Radiant heating floor systems. Brazilian chestnut has other names that it is widely known as such as sucupira and tiete chestnut. Installation information for your brazilian cherry or other solid hardwood flooring by brazilian direct.

Available in a variety of widths our solid brazilian chestnut flooring is 3 4 thick kiln dried and constructed with a 4 sided tongue and groove for easy installation. It chronicles tutorials for each step of the process derived from our installation of 3 4 inch solid tongue and groove brazilian walnut hardwoods in our own home. This flooring boasts a uv cured aluminum oxide finish with a 25 year warranty affording it superior scratch resistance increased hardness and easy maintenance and cleaning. Scoring 2 140 on the janka scale brazilian chestnut is a strong choice for your flooring project.

We first ran this article in 2010.