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Janka hardness
Teak
1,000lbf
True teak, about 22 percent softer than red oak. It is valued for its natural oils and steadiness, not its hardness.
- Botanical
- Tectona grandis
- Also called
- Burmese teak, plantation teak
- Kind
- Hardwood (a broadleaf tree), Asia and Australia
- In newtons
- 4.4 kN
- Source
- USDA Wood Handbook, 2021, Table 5-5b
- Also published
- 1,078 lbf in the NWFA species guide, 2004
4 teak floor colors to choose from.
2 lines: 2 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.

