Apart from a lifetime of beauty and resilience from our English Oak floors there are a number of points that we feel are important for you to consider.
What to expect from your Whippletree Foot Worn floor
Natural Variation
The main beauty of a solid English Oak floor is the variation in colour, grain pattern, and character… this is difficult to describe as its visual so we have created a page of photos showing typical variation. Click here to view.
Movement and Wear
Being a natural product the floor boards will expand and contract due to the changing seasons creating slight gaps and maybe the odd creak that is so typical of a genuine Oak floor. We have often used the expression that an English Oak floor ‘wears in’… the first scratch or knock is unbearable, but, it’s the accumulation of these that will make the floor ‘Time worn’ and homely.
Whippletree offer advice on how to arrive at the optimum moisture content for your project Click here to find out about projects where we have provided this service.
Acclimatisation
When considering an English Oak footworn floor, please allow enough time within your program for the area to fully dry out…all wet trades must be finished with drying timescales observed, heating must be tried, tested, and running as it will when the project is complete. Delivery of the Oak boarding can then be made with the floor boards being laid out to acclimatise. Click here for floor acclimatisation and fitting instructions.
Footworn Flooring Specification
Board length – Random length, from 2m to 4.3m occasionally slightly longer with 5% 1.2m to 1.9m.
Board width – Mixed width, 240mm (43%), 290mm (33%), & 340mm (24%) face width. (percentages of the two wider widths could be higher but not lower that these values)
Board thickness - slight variation from 22mm to 24mm.
Knots & shakes – shakes wider than approx. 3mm wedged with end grain, 3mm or less unfilled.
Surface finish - ‘Footworn’ slightly undulating with a ‘softened’ edge creating a timeworn look. Ready to stain/Oil.
Profile – Traditional half lap.
Ends – square cut, unjointed.
What to expect from your Whippletree T&G Oak floor
Natural Variation
The main beauty of a solid English Oak floor is the variation in colour, grain pattern, and character… this is difficult to describe as its visual so we have created a page of photos showing typical variation Click here to view.
Movement and Wear
Being a natural product the floor boards will expand and contract due to the changing seasons creating slight gaps and maybe the odd creak that is so typical of a genuine Oak floor. We have often used the expression that an English Oak floor ‘wears in’… the first scratch or knock is unbearable, but, it’s the accumulation of these that will make the floor ‘Time worn’ and homely.
Whippletree offer advice on how to arrive at the optimum moisture content for your project Click here to find out about projects where we have provided this service.
Acclimatisation
When considering an English Oak T&G floor, please allow enough time within your program for the area to fully dry out…all wet trades must be finished with drying timescales observed, heating must be tried, tested, and running as it will when the project is complete. Delivery of the Oak boarding can then be made with the floor boards being laid out to acclimatise. Click here for floor acclimatisation and fitting instructions.
Traditional T&G Flooring Specification
Board length – Random length, from 2m to 4.3m occasionally slightly longer with 5% 1.2m to 1.9m.
Board width – 110mm, 135mm, 160mm, 185mm, 210mm, 240mm, 290mm, and 340mm.
Board thickness – 19mm to 20mm.
Knots & shakes – unfilled.
Surface finish – Flat sanded with or without a micro-chamfer. Ready to stain/Oil.
Profile – Tongue and groove with stress grooves on the reverse.
Ends – square cut, unjointed.
What to expect from your Whippletree Engineered Oak floor
Natural Variation
The main beauty of a solid English Oak floor is the variation in colour, grain pattern, and character… this is difficult to describe as its visual so we have created a page of photos showing typical variation. Click here to view.
Movement and Wear
Being a natural product the floor boards will expand and contract due to the changing seasons creating slight gaps and maybe the odd creak that is so typical of a genuine Oak floor. We have often used the expression that an English Oak floor ‘wears in’… the first scratch or knock is unbearable, but, it’s the accumulation of these that will make the floor ‘Time worn’ and homely.
Whippletree offer advice on how to arrive at the optimum moisture content for your project Click here to find out about projects where we have provided this service.
Acclimatisation
When considering an English or European Oak Engineered floor, please allow enough time within your program for the area to fully dry out…all wet trades must be finished with drying timescales observed, heating must be tried, tested, and running as it will when the project is complete. Delivery of the Oak boarding can then be made with the floor boards being laid out to acclimatise. Click here for floor acclimatisation and fitting instructions.
Engineered Oak Flooring Specification
Board length – Random length, Standard 1.2m to 2.4m (longer boards can be made to special order up to 4.3m)
Board width – 180mm, 220mm (Wider boards can be made to special order up to 340mm)
Board thickness – 19mm to 20mm
Knots & shakes – English Oak unfilled, Euro Oak filled.
Surface finish – English Oak sanded ready to stain/oil, euro Oak pre-oiled but requires a final finish coat of Oil.
Profile – Tongue & Groove
Ends – English Oak unjointed, Euro Oak end matched.
