If you want to adjust the hue of your flooring with stain, select oak, a softer hardwood, or pine.
If you have the same size log of soft and hardwood, the soft weighs substantially less and has less B.T.U.'s".
"Oak is in very high demand," said Mr. Harned, whose mill opened in the 1930's and produces a variety of soft- and hardwood lumber.
This paper presents the results of 221 bending tests carried out on unreinforced and reinforced soft- and hardwood beams (fir and oakwood) and illustrates the reinforcement effect on timber capacity and strength uncertainty.
Within this category of dust exposure, cases were more in contact with metal dust (3239 lifetime hours versus 385 hours for controls), stone and sand dust (1458 lifetime hours versus 907 for controls), cement (1311 lifetime hours versus 867 for controls) and soft- and hardwood (1614 lifetime hours versus 826 for controls) (data not shown).
Carpenter bees enjoy a range of soft and hardwoods, and particularly like wood that is weathered.
The US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has established a recommended exposure limit for wood dust of 1 mg/m – this covers all soft- and hardwoods except western red cedar.
So the floors had to be hardwood; soft timber like pine wouldn't have lasted.
My quarters -- standard in the hotel, which I visited anonymously -- included a medium-sized, uncluttered bedroom, decorated with soft, muted fabrics, hardwood floors and hand-painted tantric art.
The facility, which operates seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., has eight research rooms decorated as living rooms or home offices, with hardwood floors, soft lighting and comfortable furniture.
