Oak

With oak, there is no great difference in colour between the heartwood and the sapwood. The sapwood of the oak ranges from two to eight centimetres thick, depending on the age of the tree.

It varies from yellowish-white to light grey. The colour of the heartwood is reminiscent of brown leather – light yellow to light brown. Sometimes, the heartwood has dark brown stripes. The wood will have varying degrees of veining. The medullary rays in oak look like watercourses in sand. They can be up to several centimetres wide. Because oak is hard-wearing and resistant to abrasion, it is one of the most popular wood species for engineered hardwood floors. An illustration of the resilience of the oak is that fact it was used for the wooden piles supporting the historic Hamburg warehouse district. Sunlight will darken your oak floor to the colours of amber. Oak does not have a strong smell. Freshly cut, it has a sour smell due to the tannins in the trunk and bark. Your ter Hürne oak natural engineered hardwood flooring smells slightly spicy. When we process fresh oak wood, the sour smell changes to this scent.

Walnut

The wood from the walnut tree is often considered one of the most valuable of the native species of timber. Walnut wood is available in small quantities. It is not a forest tree. You find it in gardens and parks.

Beech

The sapwood of beech extends across the entire cross-section. Beech only starts to form heartwood from the age of 80, and then under certain circumstances.

Bamboo

Bamboo is not a tree. Botanically speaking, it belongs to the grasses. Grasses become woody over time. In a tree, the outer sapwood is soft and the inner heartwood is hard.

With bamboo you see the opposite: it is soft on the inside and hard on the outside. For this reason, bamboo is much more stable than wood. In addition, bamboo is two-and-a-half times more robust than steel in terms of resistance to tension, and its load-bearing capacity exceeds that of reinforced concrete. Your ter Hürne engineered hardwood flooring with a surface layer of bamboo is naturally protected against knocks and scratches: Its surface has a high cellular structure and this achieves an excellent hardness. The colour of your bamboo surface layer is uniformly yellowish. When we boil the strips of the bamboo canes, the sugar content turns the canes a caramel-brown colour. In the radial section, you can see narrow lines with subtle colour shades and the typical bamboo knots that give it its character. We also cut bamboo horizontally in cross-section. Then the lines appear broader and more even than with the radial cut. Your bamboo well-being floor smiles at the sun’s rays. The rays have a negligible effect on its colour. Another strength of bamboo is its ‘love’ of humidity. You can even install it in the bathroom and it will remain faithful to you. Bamboo needs moisture, so that it does not crack and form joints. Underfloor heating is not kind to it. Untreated, a slightly sour smell reaches your nose. Impregnated, it is odourless.