Wide Wood Floor Planks

About wide plank wood flooring.

Wide wood floor planks.

Generally we supply 2200mm long boards depending on what raw material is available. First the size of the planks can be larger often measuring as wide across as 20 inches 50 8 cm and reaching lengths of 16 feet. We select all of our wide plank wood floors directly from the best timber mills to ensure the very highest quality. Wide plank wood floors hark back to the tudor jacobean and baroque periods the late 1400s 1500s and 1600s.

Wide plank wood floors are considered to be among the most beautiful and authentic. Using the larger trunk as opposed to off shoots or large limbs accomplishes two things. Along with velvet satin silk and beeswax candles wide floorboards were a hallmark of wealth and power. They capture the essence of trunk wood flooring well and show off the most natural features of a bespoke wood floor.

The planks used for hardwood flooring are created by slicing the tree s main trunk. From the georgian period onward as the cost of raw timber begain to increase the width of floorboards began to shrink. Plank width narrow under 149mm 7 wide 150mm 189mm 36 extra wide over 189mm 52.