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Salvaged wood type verification needed please

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billbo45

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Good evening everyone.
I have been lifting an old wood block overlay floor which is to be replaced with new.
On closer inspection, the wood pieces when cleaned up, are a nice hard and very useable wood.
Only problem for me is.....what wood is it?
I have attached 4 photos, one in place and the remaining of a cleaned up piece.
I am in England and believe these were sold in the 1990's by Texas Home Care (now there's a name).Any ideas?
Floor.jpgStrip 1.jpgStrip 2.jpgStrit 3.jpg
 
Model shipbuilding rule #1: Never throw anything away that might be useful.

Model shipbuilding rule=#2: Refer to rule #1!

Seriously, I would hang on to a stash of this wood. You might find it useful, particularly if your objective is scratch building. It could certainly be used for structural parts that are planked over.

Roger
 
If buried as Roger mentions why not, but it looks very grainy and might be prone to breakage when making small parts that catch a large grain or two. Try a piece and see how it works for you.
Allan
 
That doesn’t look like oak to me, but I can’t say what it does look like.

Perhaps you could send me some samples for closer inspection ;)
 
it does not look like Oak to me

the darker lines running through the wood makes me think it is Maple however Maple is a large family of different types of Maple so exactly which one ?
i do have Male that looks like the floor with lots of darker streaks

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That’s Alder!

i do not think it is Alder the wood is much too soft to be used as flooring. It is not much harder than Basswood.
 
a hardness scale for flooring

hickory 1,800

maple 1,400

oak 1,300

then the softwoods which are way to soft to use as flooring

alder 530

basswood 430

pine 380

i have Alder lumber and if you drop a screwdriver from chest high it would make a noticeable dent in the wood hardwood it would not even leave a mark.
 
My guess would be oak, but it could be anything, really. Those hardwood floor tiles were a fad in the 1970's, along with avocado-colored kitchen appliances and shag carpeting. They were made of off-cuts and scrap stock and were the cheapest flooring option to be had. Nobody paid a premium for that stuff, to be sure. While I never throw anything away (planning on starring in an American Pickers episode one of these days,) there's not much you can do with this stuff. It's just too small, unless you have a use for the tiles themselves or want a bunch of 5- or 6-inch-long sticks.
 
Question: what is the way to definitely, scientifically, exactly, determine wood species? DNA? And before that existed?
 
Bob Cleek said:
Those hardwood floor tiles were a fad in the 1970's, along with avocado-colored kitchen appliances and shag carpeting
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And we had all three in the house we built in 1972!!! :) :) I had an easier time laying the entire block basement than nailing in tongue and groove flooring in a couple rooms. Never again.
Alan
 
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