Hardwood Grades Explained: Lumber Grades With Close-Up Photographs

  In the wood flooring business, the goal of every manufacturer is to produce more hardwood lumber clean enough to make it into their Select or 1st quality flooring inventory. Unfortunately, only about 60% of any tree cut and milled will become the high-graded material. What does the manufacturer do with the 40% of lower grade lumber? We buy them and move them into the market quickly. Keep in mind that the grades for hardwood flooring are quite different from unfinished hardwood flooring ... Read more...

NOFMA Unfinished Hardwood Grades

Today I will write a blog that will put many to sleep. Who could possibly want to know anything about unfinished hardwood flooring? At least with prefinished floors there is some emotion involved. Colors, surface textures, and great marketing can make prefinished interesting, but plain, unfinished, raw wood? Oddly enough, I find the NOFMA grading rules quite interesting. Because of them being so precise we are allowed a visual of what a grade should look like as we read the rules. That’s one ... Read more...
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