Common Hardwood Floor Wood

With as much color variation as there is in that floor "matching" it will be a "moving target"!!

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Clare Snyder
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OTOH, with that variation, half the contents of a Sherwin Williams store would match perfectly. ;-)

Reply to
krw

LOL....it appears i can't go wrong.

Reply to
Meanie

I won't need a blending technique.

Reply to
Meanie

"dadiOH" wrote in news:p7js9f$v8d$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Nope, hickory doesn't look like that. It's red oak.

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Doug Miller

Clare Snyder wrote in news:d8rr9dldr27tblugdb3mformv6to0ifpqm@

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Ash doesn't have the ray structure that's clearly visible in many of these boards.

It's red oak.

Reply to
Doug Miller

Now that you know what kind of wood to use, what color are you going to paint it?

Reply to
Leon

Paint? :o Is this a trick question? ;) No decent person would paint over beautiful hardwood.

Reply to
Meanie

;~)

Reply to
Leon

Norm did!

Reply to
Markem

Looks like a lower grade of white oak to me... color variations, knots, various grain orientation, ray fleck in some boards. It looks a lot like what is left in my lumber shed of a white oak log after I used all the "good" stuff!

Reply to
John Grossbohlin

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I just saw this thread and the later pichures...

No question at all--it's "tree-run" random-selection white oak.

Reply to
dpb

Yep, probably #2 (red/white?) oak, the color and grain are 'interesting' but it's the leftovers after every straight-grained thing is made into longish boards. My house is the same, and even has a few wormholes. At one point I considered repairing a board or three, but ended up just tidying the worst bits and putting down a few rugs.

The good news is, any old source of oak will 'match' well enough not to stand out. The bad news is, these are usually short boards, it takes a LOT of labor per square foot to install. For repair/amendment, it's a lucky break, though.

Reply to
whit3rd

I think we decided that it's *not* cherry.

Reply to
krw

Oh..... then what are his options????? ;~)

Reply to
Leon

Ah! Put carpeting back over it! LOL

Reply to
Leon

Home Depot. Aisle 9.

Reply to
krw

+1!! LOL!
Reply to
-MIKE-

Mix of red oak and white oak. Lots of short pieces all randomly mixed together. But the pieces appear to be old growth with tighter grain. Putting new quick grown wide grain wood in to fix a spot would stand out like a sore thumb.

Reply to
russellseaton1

back then it was very common to use locally sourced wood or at least something closer rather than farther away

another limiter back then might have been that some oak is too porous for boat building and so that would make it more suitable to other uses like flooring

also iirc red oak can be white and white oak can be red in color

would not worry too much about the type of oak but rather match the grain and then use the finish to match the color

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Electric Comet

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