Available Species for Flooring
Select Grade Flooring
Select Grade is a subtle feature grade of timber flooring which provides a limited variation in natural characteristics. It has been carefully graded, floorboard by floorboard to ensure that it meets strict quality standards. It has a sleek, uniform look that is well suited to modern, minimalist and traditional styles.
Standard Grade Flooring
Standard Grade is distinguished by highlighting selective gum veins, spirals, burls, insect trails and other natural variations that give timber floors a unique character as individual as a signature. This grade is a visual chronicle of forest history including bush fires, floods, drought, insect travels and the natural variations that appear in the grain of Australian native hardwoods. Standard grade is carefully graded to include the most interesting variations and distinctive timber markings to enhance the look of a timber floor.
Feature Grade Flooring
Feature Grade features a high level of natural characteristics. This grade offers a unique rustic aged appearance with extenuated natural features including gum vein, knots, face checking and insect travels.
Species Hardness (Janka) Rating
The Janka rating measures the hardness of the timber.
The higher the Janka number, the harder the timber.
Species Hardness Rating:
- Victorian Ash 4.9
- Tasmanian Oak* 5.5
- Cypress Pine 6.1
- Messmate 7.1
- Flooded/Rose Gum 7.5
- Australian Beech* 7.5
- Northern Beach 7.5
- Jarrah 8.5
- Tallowwood 8.6
- Karri 9.0
- Sydney Blue Gum 9.0
- Forest Reds* 9.1
- Blackbutt 9.1
- Brushbox 9.5
- NSW Spotted Gum 11.0
- QLD Spotted Gum 11.0
- Turpentine 12.0
- Red Mahogany 12.0
- Grey and Red Ironbark 14.0
- Grey Box 15.0
- New England Oak 6.1
- Stringybark 8.1
- New England Blackbutt 9.1
- Ribbon Gum 6.1
* These timbers are blends of several species.
The Janka rating is the average rating for the species used in that blend.
To view some samples of these floorings, please visit our Gallery page.