Hickory Hardwood Flooring
Hickory flooring is one of the most durable domestic wood species you can find in any flooring store. Check out our prefinished hand scraped or classic finishes in decor-friendly hickory flooring colors today! Call us at 1-800-253-2728 to start your order.
Our Popular Hickory Hardwood Collections
Bringing the beauty of hickory floors to our customers at amazingly low prices is our passion. Hickory is a classic wood species that our family installation business has installed in thousands of homes in the last 50 years of doing business. Shopping solid or engineered hickory will both yield amazing results for years to come. Flooring with incredible durability and amazing visuals can rock the socks off in any homeowner. We have the best price on narrow and wide plank options in America!
Add our 5 star reviews into the mix and you'll see why so many decide to order from us. All we need to know if you like hickory and everything that comes with these wooden floors.
Facts on Hickory Hardwoods
Hickory is an extremely hard tree, perfect to walk on for years as your home's main flooring material. Hickory's dense and this is a show stopping feature. All domestic hardwoods like white oak, red oak, and even walnut are put through a Janka Hardness test.
A Janka test presses a steel ball into a slab of wood and records how much force is used to push this metal ball halfway into the test piece of wood. The Janka scale rating for a hardwood is the reported force of this test. Hickory has the highest domestic wood Janka rating.
A High Wood Density Flex
A high density rating for hardwood flooring means its got the stuff off longevity. Softer and less dense wood flooring will dent, scratch, and wear down faster.
The lifetime of hardwood flooring is based on its change in appearance. Most flooring that is replaced has a longer lifespan, but they probably just looked bad.Â
Any hardwood with lots of dents and scrapes will be replaced because of looks, not because its unsafe or a risk to a homeowner. However, Momma will ask if you can sand and refinish this battered hardwood to make her feel better.
The Durability and Style of Hickory Flooring
Solid hardwood can be refinished and it brings a real boost to home values. A thick solid plank will last for years and its character will be talking point for years to come as well.
One Hardwood Floor to Take A Beating
Hickory can take on heavy foot traffic with high wooden resilience and low maintenance.
Hickory has lots of color variation and natural style on one plank. The knots, heartwood browns, and light sapwood cream colors will constrast in hickory.Â
The other reason is the vast difference in color tone between the heartwood and the sapwood. It is this contrast that gives Hickory planks the unique look that so many homeowners fall in love with.
What Grade is Best For Me?
Hickory, more than any other wood in my opinion, offers very different looks between grades. While some of the same grading rules apply as Red Oak or Maple, much of the lower grades of Hickory are due to extreme contrast in color.
The color variation is much of the appeal to many consumers the demand for Cabin grade Hickory flooring in both solid and engineered is very high.
Our fastest Selling Hardwood Flooring
Our American Home collection is a first quality solid hickory hardwood that is our best value for our customers looking for lots of color, long boards, and a good warranty!
Hardwood flooring can be tricky to give blanket recommendations to anybody. We think this new collection hits every high note for a classic hickory product.
American Home is a perfect example of an oddball product. If we added #2 Common lumber to any other first quality product the demand would go down. But our American Home is easily the most popular and best-selling first quality product in our warehouses. If you have been shopping for Hickory you will understand why.
A hickory plank will bring more style and strength to your home. If you like oak natural floors get a sample of any hickory plank flooring before you finish any projects.
You are probably one hickory installation job away from always choosing hickory for your home.
Any Downsides?
Since you asked, yes there are.
The first downside was an upside earlier and that is the wood species is really hard! This is a very dense material. What does that mean to you, a consumer? A dense wood material is much more likely to expand due to moisture changes than a softer species.
Softer species contain more porosity. These pores are capable of storing water without changing the shape of the board. Not Hickory. Because of that density there is no built-in storage so it swells. Is that a problem? You darn tootin’!
When the wood expands it causes the edges of the boards to rise up, resulting in a ruined and cupped floorboards. This is bad. Most of the time the introduction of HVAC or a dehumidifier will help.
Solid and Engineered Floors
Stability and increased durability is the reason that engineered floors came into existence. In engineered flooring the layers in each plank are stacked with alternating grain patterns. This increases the stability and durability because there isn't a single slab of material to expand and contract due to moisture changes. This process is what keeps engineered flooring from cupping or buckling.
Thanks to Somerset Hardwood Flooring’s SolidPlus and Bruce's American Home, you can get an engineered product that has the exact same appearance as their solid floor products. How can they do that?
Most engineered floors are made with a top layer that is cut from a log in a peeling process called Rotary Peel. This method has a higher yield but not an impressive visual. This is important to the box stores that only care about being a few cents cheaper but to Somerset it is a no-go. Their SolidPlus engineered floors all utilize a sawn face veneer.
In this process the veneer is sliced across the face of a log. The same way a whole board of solid hardwood is cut, but thinner. This veneer is then attached to the top of a core that is made of 7 layers of hardwood lumber. This results in a beautiful, thick, and moisture resistant board that can stand up to the Spring months. Go ahead and kick the doors open and enjoy the smell of fresh blooms.Â
Hickory Species, Finish, and Color Options
Another downside to Hickory, especially with its natural finish, is all of that color. Who wants dark and light streaks of color all over their floor?! Not everyone. Take a look at stained hickory flooring that creates a more even look while still looking amazing!
I have told you about all I know about Hickory hardwood and the natural hickory features of this floor. If you want to know more about wood flooring, or ask about specific hickory solid products, you will have to call or email one of our experienced salespeople.
Free Flooring Sample Information
We send send free samples of our hickory floors to new customers. Ask about our delivery options at 1-800-253-2728 as well! If you don't see any hickory flooring options you like please give us a call, we may have in stock but not on our site yet!