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Janka hardness
Black cherry
950lbf
About 26 percent softer than red oak. Cherry darkens with light, most noticeably in its first months.
- Botanical
- Prunus serotina
- Also called
- Cherry, American cherry
- Kind
- Hardwood (a broadleaf tree), North America
- In newtons
- 4.2 kN
- Specific gravity
- 0.50 at 12 percent moisture
- Source
- USDA Wood Handbook, 2021, Table 5-3b
1 cherry floor colors to choose from.
1 line: 1 engineered. Each color has its own page: open one to see it in a room, save it, or work out the cartons.
Where it sits among every floor wood.
Hardest first. Floors we carry in oak brown, the rest in tan, red oak in black. How the Janka test works.
The number is a start. The floor is the answer.
Hardness is one fact among many: the finish, the sheen, the width and how the house is lived in all count. A free visit puts one of us in your rooms to weigh them with you.
