Services

Hardwood floor installation
unfinished, pre finished, floating, engineered
Custom design installation
Refinishing
Stairs
Hand scraping
Hand distressing
Gives a more antiqued look
Bleaching
Parquet Wood Flooring (design)
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
Wood Characteristics
Sawn (photo)
Janka Scale

We specialize in Hardwood floor installations, like

  • Unfinished, Pre-finished, Floating and Engineered flooring
  • Custom design installation
  • Parquet Wood Flooring
  • Stairs

We offer many types of detailing, to bring out the natural characteristics of your flooring. Choose the best for your living environment.

  • Refinishing
  • Hand scraping
  • Hand distressing
  • Bleaching

Dustless Sanding Technology

The biggest issue with new hardwood floor installation or refinishing is excessive dust. With our Dustless Sanding Technolog you no longer have to deal with the large volumse of dust that accumulates during construction.

Wood Characteristics

Take a look at the image below to see the difference between the Plain Sawn or Quarter Sawn cuts. By just changing the way in which you cut the wood, you can choose to show the Tangential grain or the Radial grain.

Plain Sawn vs. Quarter Sawn

Plain Sawn vs. Quarter Sawn

Janka Scale

What is the Janka hardness test?

Flooring Species Hardness
North American Cherry 950
North American Walnut 1010
Carbonized/Caramel Bamboo 1120
True Teak 1155
Iroko/Kambala 1260
Yellow Birch 1260
Red Oak 1260
Beech 1300
Ash 1320
Amendoim 1340
White Oak 1360
Australian Cypress 1375
Royal Mahogany 1400
Caribbean Walnut 1400
Natural Bamboo 1410
North American Maple 1450
Brazilian Maple 1500
Timborana 1570
Kempas 1710
Padauk, African 1725
Doussie 1770
Hickory 1820
Pecan 1820
Jarrah 1910
Merbau 1925
Tigerwood(Goncalo Alves) 2160
Santos Mahogany 2200
Caribbean Rosewood 2300
Chestnut, Southern 2670
Tiete Rosewood(Guibourtia) 2800
Brazilian Cherry(Jatoba) 2820
Brazilian Teak(Cumaru) 3540
Tiete Chestnut 3540
Brazilian Walnut(Ipe) 3680

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Artex Flooring, Inc., Lic 935426  
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