Residential - Solid Flooring

Solid flooring is when each board consists of one solid piece of hardwood. The most common thickness is ¾” and widths vary from two to five inches. These floors experience the normal expansion and contraction with changes in relative humidity. They are designed to be installed on or above grade (where humidity levels are more controllable). Therefore, solid flooring is not recommended in basement applications in order to avoid unnecessary problems due to excessive moisture.

These floors also require a solid plank or plywood sub-floor to enable the planks to be nailed down using a two inch cleat. A concrete sub-floor, such as in a condominium, would require that a ¾” plywood sub-floor be installed prior to solid wood installation.

There are many wood species available such as Red or White Oak, Maple, Birch, Ash, Cherry, Walnut, Jatoba (Brazilian Cherry), Cabreuva (Santos Mahogany), Hickory, Beech, and other exotic species. Combine all these woods with the various manufacturers, grades and the many colors and widths available, and you are provided with hundreds of flooring options. Solid ¾ inch floors have the possibility of being re-sanded three to five times for a real lifetime investment.

Products Available:

• Bruce
• Mirage
• Vintage
• Somerset

Bruce

Bruce has been manufacturing hardwood flooring since 1884 and has established a well-known name in the industry. The Dura-Luster urethane finish is an exclusive Bruce finish featuring four layers of ultra-violet cure urethane resins to form an extremely hard and wear resistant barrier.

Features:

• Dura-Luster Plus urethane finish series
• Variety of grades and widths available
• Great selection of colours
• Matching moldings
• Installation and floor care products

Warranty is dependent on the series purchased. Warranties vary from 25, 15, 10 and 5 years on the finish. Tavern grades are solid “as is” with no warranty.

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Mirage

Boa-Franc, the manufacturer of Mirage flooring, has a solid world-wide reputation of excellence in their pre-finished ¾ inch solid hardwood flooring. They have built a solid distribution network in Canada and in the United States.

Woodchuck Flooring is proud to be one of their largest retailers of this exclusive flooring product brand, which is now in European and Asian markets. The company uses state-of-the-art technology with production by experienced, meticulous staff who ensure superbly finished products meeting standards of the highest quality. Boa-Franc Inc. is the only manufacturer of pre-finished hardwood floors to be awarded the ISO 9002 certification, controlling all phases of the manufacturing process from the selection of raw material to the delivery of the finished product.

Mirage is also the only one offering the Nanolinx™ finishing system  the 1st first finish in prefinished wood flooring finish that uses nanotechnology to enhance and protect your investment.  

The micro-V joint on all four sides of the strips, is the most uniform eased edge available. The precision and uniformity in milling, the color and finishing and the perfect tongue and groove fit ensures remarkable uniformity and facilitates installation. The finished product reflects the quality control that goes into every board from start to finish.

All Mirage floors come with matching moldings in the same shade and luster as the floor you have chosen to complete the job perfectly.

Features:

Species include: Red Oak, Maple, Yellow Birch, White Ash, Jatoba,  American Cherry and Walnut

• Dozens Of colors to choose from
• Three available grades: Select and Better, Exclusive and Traditional (some combinations of species and colors are only available in specific grades)
• Available in 2”, 2 ¼”, 2 ½” and 3 ¼” widths (some combinations of species and colors are only available in specific widths)
• Matching moldings
• Installation and floor care products

Warranty Structural lifetime limited warranty and 25 year finish warranty for residential applications and 3- year finish warranty for light commercial applications.

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Vintage

Manufactured in Toronto, the longer, average lengths, superior Armour-Kote finish and the smallest micro-V in the industry puts Vintage amongst the top industry leaders. A great selection of grades, species, widths and colors gives the consumer a great selection to choose from. Vintage offers pre-finished Black Cherry, Hickory and Jatoba floors and widths as wide as 4” and 5” in some species and colors.

Features:

• 5 sizes, 6 grades, 29 luscious colors and 6 species
• Smallest “micro-V” in the industry
• Matching moldings
• Installation and floor care products

Warranty Lifetime structural warranty and 25 year residential wear warranty on all grades, excluding the Ranch grade, which offers a 1-year warranty.

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Somerset

Somerset is one of North America’s Largest Suppliers of Kiln-Dried Appalachian Hardwoods. The quality Appalachian lumber from which we manufacture Somerset flooring is supplied by our Somerset Wood Products division. The majority of the Appalachian timber processed at Somerset Wood Products comes from nearly 120 sawmill suppliers within a 150-mile radius of our plants. Our “waste-not" philosophy and commitment to our natural resources starts here, where even the bark of the tree is used for mulch—in fact the entire tree is put to use throughout our manufacturing processes

Somerset's Strip And Plank is solid 3/4" thick flooring crafted from Appalachian oak, which is renowned for its incomparable beauty. Solid prefinished flooring should last the lifetime of your home. It can be sanded and refinished if needed—or if your decorating tastes change and you simply want to change the color.

We feel that no other hardwood flooring in the industry is manufactured to higher quality standards than a Somerset hardwood floor. Flooring in the Color Collection Strip series carries our Lifetime Structural Integrity Warranty and a 50-Year Finish Wear Layer Warranty. 

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