The Forestry Forum

I live in Eastern Canada and am hoping to produce some hardwood flooring. The woods most available are rock maple, yellow birch and white birch. I am wondering how good these are for flooring and the various pluses or minuses of using each. Any info / comments would be much appreciated.

I do(make) a flooring of Russian birch. Beautifully, quality, you can do(make) safely. Humidity a flooring of 6 %.
Sergey.

For us far NE'erners, maple and yellow birch flooring can't be beat. Most common natural hardwood flooring in these parts since we don't have much oak to speak of.  Yellow birch makes nice mantels to.  ;D White birch isn't as hard. Definitely needs to be kilned. The untrained eye wouldn't be able to tell yellow birch from hard Maple. The end grain of both species and the ray fleck of split hard maple speaks volumes.  ;) We have a thread in the Tree ID board on end grain.  ;D With hard maple avoid dark heart (warp and twist troubles), and with yellow birch, it doesn't matter (a lot of folks like dark heart mixed in the flooring). Some yellow birch is like cherry because of pink heart.