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Sunday, February 05, 2012

Floors for life!

Experts in exotic and traditional hard wood floors, floating floors, offering the largest choice of tiles and ceramics in and around the Montreal region, Planchers 440 supplies contractors and individuals alike, varnished or oiled hard woods as well bricks and decorative stones for interior walls. Planchers 440 now innovates with a wide variety of custom-made bioethanol fireplaces!

World's toughest exotic and traditional floors

Hardest woods for long lasting floors

Wood hardness is a result of it's density. For example, ipé wood (or Brazilian walnut tree) introduces a hardness index three times higher then the red oak, one of our most reputable and durable woods. In fact, ipé wood is so hard that it is even fire resistant.

 

 

In stock

Wood flooring currently in stock at Planchers 440

Traditional floors

  1. Ash
  2. Maple
  3. Cherry-wood
  4. Red oak

Exotic floors

  1. Cabreuva
  2. Kurupay
  3. Jatoba
  4. Ipé
  5. Cumaru
  6. Tigerwood
  7. Sucupira
  8. Quinilla 

 

Planchers 440
Wood floor ranking
Quality standards

The industry sorts woods into different grades depending on their appearance and grain regularity. Our traditional woods like oak or maple are available in three grades: best, pacific and bistro. Mahoganies from Brazil are very tall trees and only have a few low lying branches. Two grades are sufficient for their ranking: select and rustic.

Hardness scale for flooring woods

Plancher essence exotique