Recent content by Arfur

Yep agree use common sense - old fir floors being half the hardness yet commonly use in years gone by is testament to the hardness factor being not so important and is perhaps overrated. Depends on the look and feel you are after. Scooting furniture across a very hard wood floor will also damage...

Perhaps the hardness of a flooring wood is over rated in terms of getting dents etc for domestic use anyways. Half of the houses in Australia have pine floors which is softer and I rarely saw any damage/dents in them when I lived there. Hard flooring wood tends to have no give at all so feels...

Because it's all FSC etc approved it's coming in approved/cleared by customs I'm told. It's about the same janka hardness as teak so can't really see why it would be considered too soft for flooring - it was used to build the old wood sailing ship hulls so got to be hardy enough. Yes great for...

Mostly stopped logging it in South America but it has been plantation grown in many countries for about 40 years now. All FSC approved and the plantations are regularly checked so it's around and all quite legal. I'd prefer to get the real thing rather than some kind of copy Mahogany like...

Hi all, Wonder if anyone can give me an idea of pricing per sq foot for Genuine Mahogany [swietenia macrophylla] tongue and groove flooring size about 5" wide x 3/4" thick. I realize it's going to vary a bit in price depending on grade - looking for higher grade stuff -...