Hickory Hardwood Flooring

Our Popular Hickory Hardwood Collections

Really Cheap Floors is passionate and excited to share the beauty of hickory floors at amazing prices. This particular species of traditional solid flooring is classic. Hickory engineered is great for its resilience and low maintenance. Our affordable pricing per sq ft helps make every narrow or wide plank hickory easier to enjoy after installation.

Facts on Hickory Hardwoods

Hickory is an extremely hard tree. 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.

High Wood Density Floors are Desirable

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.

A floor with lots of dents and scrapes will be replaced because of looks, not because its unsafe or completely worn down. Even if the floor is structurally sound, Momma will ask if you can sand and refinish the floor.

The Durability and Style of Hickory Wood Flooring

Solid hardwood can be refinished and it brings a real boost to home values. A thick hardwood solid plank will last for years.

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.

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 choice of hickory wood flooring for a customer is the American Home series we acquired in 2024.

At ReallyCheapFloors.com we are proud to introduce our newest Hickory product from Bruce Hardwood Flooring.

Our fastest Selling Hardwood Floor

American Home is a first quality solid Hickory hardwood floor that is made of the best of the #2 Common and #1 Common lumber to give our customers a great value on a floor with lots of color, long boards, a warranty, and most importantly, great value!

Hardwood flooring can be tricky to give blanket recommendations to anybody. We think this new collection hits every high note for a classic hickory floor.

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 floor job away from always making it your floor of choice if you like the natural floor style.

Are There Any Downsides to Hickory Flooring?

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 floor. What does that mean to you, a consumer? A dense floor is much more likely to expand due to moisture changes than a softer floor.

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 cupped floor. This is bad. Most of the time the introduction of HVAC or a dehumidifier will help, maybe even fix the problem.

Solid and Engineered Floors

Stability and increased durability is the reason that engineered floors came into existence. In engineered flooring the layers in each hardwood plank are stacked with alternating grain patterns. This increases the stability and durability of hardwood because it helps minimize movement due to moisture changes. This process is what keeps engineered hardwood 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 Hickory floors. 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.

Hickory Species, Finish, and Color Options

Another downside to Hickory is all of that color. Who wants dark and light streaks all over their floor?! Not everyone, it appears. For that reason we also offer stained Hickory hardwood floors that take advantage of other attributes but deliver a warm, consistent look that screams life is good!

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.

They can also send you a free sample of our hickory floors. 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!