Resources · Janka hardness · Pine
Janka hardness · a group of woods
Pine
380 to 1,225lbf
From 71 percent softer than red oak to 5 percent softer than red oak.
Pine floors run from very soft to nearly as hard as red oak, depending on which pine and how old the tree was.
- Botanical
- Pinus spp.
- Kind
- Softwood (a conifer), North America
The woods sold as pine.
Pine is a name the mills use for more than one tree, which is why its number is a range. Each one, measured:
4 pine 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.
