We source our Blueridge Real American Black Walnut logs from the US/Canadian Border. This means that our Solid American Black Walnut Flooring is made from the finest slow grown timber taken only from sustainably managed forests, so you can be sure that your purchasing decision is not literally costing the earth. The hardwood is steamed during the manufacturing process to darken the wood to a rich brown colour. There are cheaper Chinese grown walnut floors on the market but without the close grain and rich colouration of our Canadian Walnut, and certainly without the ecological credentials of our wood.

Blueridge American Black Walnut (Juglans Nigra) is probably our best selling floor. We think it is probably one of the richest looking and finest quality Real American Black Walnut floors available on the market. We have it made exclusively for us in Singapore using logs sourced from sustainable forests on the Canadian / US border.

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If Solid American Black Walnut Flooring is not to your taste, why not check out our Engineered Wooden Floors London and Engineered Wooden Floors Manchester.

We differ from many other flooring suppliers by providing a complete specification to installation service where required. If there is a difficult profile to match up to around a circular staircase for instance, we will work with the Archictect and Contractor to find a solution, we’ll manufacture the profile ourselves and we’ll fit it too. Click Here

Flooring ranges we offer:

Black walnut flooring
Engineered Walnut flooring
Solid American Black Walnut flooring

Must underfloor heating systems involve laying pipes over or within insulation on the ground floor slab. The pipes are then buried in a screed which heats up to provide constant low level warmth into the room. As wood is an insulator, the passage of heat from the pipes through the floor and into the room is affected by a ‘lag’. This tends to result in the pipes having to heat up more so that the boiler works for longer before the room thermostat kicks in and switches it off. Conversely, there is then a period of overheating from latent heat stored in the wood and pipes.

That said, underfloor heating is becoming very popular and as a method of heating is definitely here to stay. This move from traditional radiated heating systems can generally explain the demand we have seen in the market for engineered wood floors in recent years. This is a type of construction which is made of of a layer of real wood (the surface top layer) with a sandwich layer several cross-layers of plywood or softwood bonded to the back. Essentially it gives the appearance of solid wood but with far more stability when introduced to an environment, such as a home, where the changes in humidity and moisture can be very great. Solid wood, especially the wider boards, will naturally ‘cup’ or ‘twist’ given any opportunity. The cross-layering of wood material used in an engineered board disperses the stresses from the top layer and literally will hold the wood in shape when exposed to excessive moisture or humidity ingress or egress.

You should be wary of acclimatising the wood during the commissioning phase of the underfloor heating As both the wood and the ‘wet’ screed are in the same room, the moisture forced out of the screed during commissioning is taken into the wood from the surrounding air. When the wood is laid without checking the moisture content, it releases the excess moisture and shrinks. Gaps appear and the room is spoilt. There is less chance of this happening using engineered wood, but the problem can never be completely eliminated.

Care, attention and the right experience as well as your supplier hopefully wanting their product to live up to your expectations will ensure a successful outcome.