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Janka hardness
Hard maple
1,450lbf
About 12 percent harder than red oak, pale and close grained, the wood of basketball courts. Its tight grain can take stain unevenly, so it is often left natural or lightly toned.
- Botanical
- Acer saccharum
- Also called
- Sugar maple, rock maple, maple
- Kind
- Hardwood (a broadleaf tree), North America
- In newtons
- 6.4 kN
- Specific gravity
- 0.63 at 12 percent moisture
- Source
- USDA Wood Handbook, 2021, Table 5-3b
What the makers say.
The makers of the hard maple floors we carry publish their own figure: PG Flooring, 1,450 lbf (18 lines); Mullican, 1,450 lbf (7 lines). The same figure as the Wood Handbook.
262 hard maple floor colors to choose from.
49 lines: 25 solid and 24 engineered. Each color has its own page: open one to see it in a room, save it, or work out the cartons.

Shaw Floors
Ocala
Bayfront · 6 colors
$5.19 /sq ft

Superior
Select Solid Maple 3-1/4 in
Cinnamon low sheen · 11 colors
$7.75 /sq ft Orange price code

Superior
Premier Solid Maple 3-1/4 in
Cinnamon low sheen · 11 colors
$8.75 /sq ft Red price code

Mullican
Chatelaine 4" Maple
Autumn · 2 colors
$7.49 /sq ft Yellow price code

Shaw Floors
Yukon Maple 5
Buckskin · 5 colors
$7.09 /sq ft

Shaw Floors
Eclectic Maple
Americana · 5 colors
$6.99 /sq ft

PG Flooring
Heritage Grade Solid Maple 5-1/4 in
Ancestral · 7 colors
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Shaw Floors
Natural Classics Hard Maple 3"
Natural Hard Maple
$9.69 /sq ft Indigo price code
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.