Australian timber flooring and timber flooring types

Sizes, colors, species and grades

Solid timber floors come in various styles – factory finished, unfinished, different sizes, colors, and grades. Choosing the best for you is an important decision and will be based on your lifestyle, decorating style, and the area in which you want to install your timber floor. Talk to timber floor installers Sydney to weigh the advantages of each alternative.

Sizes

Solid T&G flooring (19mm)

Narrow

60, 65 mm. Due to the narrow profile, it’s a more stable wood flooring once set up by flooring installation specialists, less vulnerable to movement influenced by large changes in atmospheric conditions. It is ideally suitable for large rooms like gyms and halls. It may make a small room appear more prominent.

Regular

80, 85, 100 mm These are the most frequent dimensions and most easily available. They are suitable in many rooms in most regions of Australia. A classic example would be 80mm Brushbox flooring, ironbark floor, Tassie oak flooring, or 100mm cypress pine flooring or Baltic pine. All the sizes mentioned earlier can be secured, nailed, or stapled from the side of the board during the floorboard installation (secret nailing).

Broad

130mm. Preferred method of installation if top nail the boards. While broader boards are available, particular focus on wood floor installation methods is imperative to prevent cupping” from using incorrect techniques. Therefore, choosing commercial floor installers, in this case, is strongly recommended.
This size board provides a rich look to any floor and is suitable in most rooms except little ones as it will make small rooms look smaller. Suitable for most regions of Australia, nevertheless not recommended in the tropics. According to Boral, timber 130mm size can be secret nailed as well.
Secret fixing wide board flooring requires skilled tradespeople, who understand the potential hazards of incorrect installation, and should not be undertaken by novice flooring installers.

Regular

86 — 90 mm. This is the most common dimensions and most easily accessible. It’s suitable to be installed on most decks if done correctly. A classic is Merbau flooring. Merbau is a reddish-brown hardwood of excellent durability from southeast Asia.

Broad

130mm plus. As a result of its width, most decking needs to be thicker than 19mm for stability, and so has been made to order products as there are various sizes available.

Hardness

The hardness of the timber is another critical component in your decision. Durability and resistance against abrasion or indentation is a vital attribute of your future floor. Hardwood floors tend to be more expensive, while softer floors are usually cheaper.
When choosing wood, it is good to plan well in advance and look for different Internet sources. The prices of wood oscillate during the year, and it pays to invest time by looking for other sources.
Attention should be paid to the choice of the correct wood hardness concerning the place of its future use. Softwood, for a family of five in a highly used room, will not serve very well. The kitchen floor, which is considered the most frequented place in the house, will suffer.
The following appendix contains a graph that shows the hardness of Australian wood and can help decide which wood will best meet the requirements for future use. The softest commercial timber is Victorian ash and the harder ironbark timber.