Any downside to Owens flooring? The 5/8 inch height will match some existing tile I have perfectly without transitions on the main level. Has anyone seen there natural white oak, braz cherry or cherry flooring site finished? The samples I have seen are not finished, and it is hard for me to get a feel for the finished look. I have in mind the white oak rift and quartered natural which I understand is a mill run product character and better. the installers have a long history in the area doing site finished and are going to use 2 coats of syntecko and traffic on the top.

Site finsihed just seems plenty durable, and more beautiful IMO and I won't miss the grooves on prefinsihed.

I owe you all for an education in wood. I make ortho braces for a living and if I can be of any help PM me. Backs knees feet let me know. Been doing it for 25 years. Bruce

Bruce,

The only downside I can see to Owens is occasionally, it's back ordered and difficult to get in a timely fashion. And it costs a pretty penny, considering one still needs to pay for site finishing. But if a site finished floor over concrete is what you're looking for, Owen's PlankFloor is the cat's meow. When I've installed it, half of the boards were were the full length of the carton, about 7'. So no tons of shorts here. The milling was perfect and the grading excellent. I can't comment on the other species as I only did two and both were red oak. I don't think you will be disappointed.

Gary, thanks they now have a red oak r and q to match their white oak. The red oak is from the appalacians, did it seem to have a pinker look to it versus wood from up north further? Thanks sorry I posted in the wrong subtitle.

Can't go wrong with the owens plank. We site finish it with tung oil by Waterlox. I have used the Brazillian Cherry, white oak, red oak, and about to start 3,000 feet of character walnut over radiant heat.

All the rules apply for acclimation.

Had tons of nice full length boards in the mix and at the most 1 or two "aces" in a box (shorts)



Hope this helps,
Will

I used the 6" engineered brazilian cherry over concrete. Real nice wood. I bordered it with 3" maple.

I found a recent memo (Sept I think) from Owens saying that the ends of the planks now need to be filled with glue during the installation. Apparently a new requirement for the wider width planks.

This is becoming a more common installing requirement these days; and us installers need to be sure that we note it before bidding on the work. It does take more time to glue up the end butt's T&G, whether you're installing by glue down or nail down. I had a Kahrs install just a little while ago require gluing the end butts together as well.