Thread: What type of Timber is this floor?

bit hard to tell from those pics ,but looks like brush box to me , retired floor sander ,

and if its in kallangur and you tell me who the builder was i would probably know what it was for sure ( if the place was built in the 70s - 80s )

Thanks, I thought it might be brushbox. Meranti filler however was closer to the colour than brushbox filler. No idea who the builder was but whoever it was, did a nice job & it is in Kallangur.. Tiled the lounge over Easter & the cuts along the 4 edges were the same size along each of the walls which means that the lounge walls are at 90deg to each other.

May even be Spotted Gum!

I am by no means expert in knowing one type of wood from another, but it looks exactly like my brush box floors, some of the boards are identical, and in my case the colour varies through a wide range from very dark brown to light grey.
regards
witch 1

Unlikely to be brush box,Milt. I was using brush box in the mid-80's as steel mill rubbing boards in flitches (10" x 5" from memory.) It was treated as rubbish timber and useful only for wear applications.

There's always the exception to the rule, however.

It may well be a spotted gum, even though the colour's all wrong.

Perhaps even a blue gum?

Any chance of a close-up photo.

Cheers,

eddie

Originally Posted by eddie the eagle

Unlikely to be brush box,Milt. I was using brush box in the mid-80's as steel mill rubbing boards in flitches (10" x 5" from memory.) It was treated as rubbish timber and useful only for wear applications.

There's always the exception to the rule, however.

It may well be a spotted gum, even though the colour's all wrong.

Perhaps even a blue gum?

Any chance of a close-up photo.

Cheers,

eddie

there were thousands of houses built in brisbane in the 70s and 80s that had brush box floors , they were the better floors at the time also spotted gum , the cheaper houses were pine floors .
ensell homes , brick and brush box
most of the fussy italian builders , brick and brush box
peter kurts ,edward street properties, spotted gum
bill patterson homes cypress pine .
i could list a few hundred builders and the floors they used but i dont feel like the typing
i also installed a hell of a lot of brush box parquetry flooring

Originally Posted by eddie the eagle

Unlikely to be brush box,Milt. I was using brush box in the mid-80's as steel mill rubbing boards in flitches (10" x 5" from memory.) It was treated as rubbish timber and useful only for wear applications.

There's always the exception to the rule, however.

It may well be a spotted gum, even though the colour's all wrong.

Perhaps even a blue gum?

Any chance of a close-up photo.

Cheers,

eddie

Excuse the cross grain sanding marks.

The house is timber frame high set with a single course of bricks outside. When drilling into the studs, a red shaving is produced. The frame is very hard & any woodscrew needs to be pre-drilled otherwise it breaks off. Excuse me if the terminology is wrong - I am South African & am still learning the jargon. Where I come from, most homes are built from brick only & then plastered.

It looks to me like a floor I had done a few years ago. Tulip oak or Argyrodendron actinophyllum maybe. The colour and wavy figure is the same.

Apologies, I checked the photos and details, it was brushbox.... THe tulip oak was a different job

Cheers
Michael

the frame will be red ironbark id say. cant drive a nail in it when its dry

the floor could be brush box or from big old spotty logs.

Brushbox, just like the floor of the sydney opera house. That fine ripple and grey brown colour are very distinctive.

we also did work for some builders who just called the floors "mixed hardwood "

Its either Brush Box or Spotted Gum.
My inlaws just had a floor laid, and it is Spotted gum, and the floor has all sorts of colours in it, everything from a darkish brown through to a lightish pink, very similar to the colour in your pic.

I'd go Brush Box for sure

Cheers


Steve