According to dadiOH :
Doug Miller wrote:
In article .com,
Aaron Fude wrote:
I need to replace a section of the floor and I'm wondering what
kind of wood this is to come up with as close a match as possible:

http://freeboundaries.com/floor1.jpg
http://freeboundaries.com/floor2.jpg

Not hardwood at all. It's yellow pine.

Or Douglas fir. Since you are in Pennsylvania, most probably yellow
pine.

Out of curiousity, why do you think it's pine/fir?

Yes, it being in an attic is suggestive of that. On the other
hand, it's narrow-strip flooring, and back in those days that
tended to be the "better" stuff and I'd expect it to be hardwood.

The picture isn't all that good. The grain pattern is suggestive
of Douglas Fir, oak, ash or even chestnut. In Pennsylvania back
then it's _highly_ unlikely to be Doug Fir.

I'm not at all familiar with Yellow Pine - doesn't grow here. So
that may be my problem ;-)

Eastern white pine, especially wide plank (6+ inches), is common in
farmhouses and "back rooms" in houses of this vintage and older, but
its grain pattern is _much_ less distinct, so it can't be that.

I've never seen white pine in narrow strip flooring. Is it common
in yellow?

White pine is softer than Doug Fir, but still very common as flooring,
even new. Depends on what you want.

We plan on redoing our kitchen and dining room with white pine.
Mind you, it's been sitting on the bottom of the Ottawa river
for more than 100 years. Old growth to begin with, it's "treatment"
has hardened it even more.
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