European Steamed Beech Flooring

European beech wood is normally white to pale cream colour but when the steaming process is added to relieve drying stresses it turns to pale pinkish in colour.

European steamed beech flooring. Its hardness wear resistance strength and excellent bending capabilities coupled with its low price make this hardwood a mainstay for many european woodworkers. Density 640 kg m3 durability not available. It can turn to a deeper reddish brown with steaming. The colour varies from whitish to very pale brown and may darken to a pale pinkish brown.

Steamed beech temperate hardwood uses. The wood is fairly hard and has a fine and even texture. Beech wood gets steamed. Sometimes the wood has a dark red heart or darker veining.

European beech is a traditional wood species here at arrow wood. Cabinetmaking high class joinery solid and laminated furniture desks and work benches chairmaking sportsware woodware tool handles turnery musical instruments domestic flooring heavy construction marine piling corestock and utility plywood. Beech is pale to light brown. The color is white to yellow with a soft reddish grain.

But on exposure to air it quickly changes to light brown with a yellow or reddish tinge. Beech has fine uniform texture. Beech is harder than red oak. Beech wood has a very characteristic appearance making.

It is often used to mimic other more expensive woods such as maple. The sapwood is hard to differentiate from the heartwood. European steamed beech flooring. Together with oak maple and pine beech engineered hardwood flooring was the first flooring we used to manufacture engineered wooden floors.

Veneer tends to be slightly darker colored as slicing the veneer usually requires the wood to be prepared with steam which gives the wood a more golden tone. Beech flooring has characteristics of the beech tree. Stability is less than oak. European beech timber species fagus sylvatica.

Sliced veneers have an excellent flecked figure on quartered surfaces and broad rays on longitudinal. Colour naturally a pinkish brown to a reddish brown grain straight grain. Red alder is almost white when freshly cut. Unedged european beech timber steamed unsteamed square edged european walnut timber steamed unsteamed unedged european walnut timber steamed unsteamed kiln dried timber.

Our kilning drying technology allows to reduce the moisture to 8 for timber as for flooring we reduce it to 6. It s typically a pale cream color sometimes with a pink or brown hue. Beech is an important and widely used hardwood in europe. European beech wood is normally white pale cream or pale brown and is steamed to relieve drying stresses while also bringing out a pinkish red color.

Beech is an important and widely used hardwood in europe.