"blueman" wrote in message
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Please help me identify the types of wood flooring in my house.

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You have plenty of expert opinions. As someone who is a professional in old
buildings I can tell you there is no way to positively identify a species
from looking at it. Distinguishing between softwoods is especially
difficult. if the timber is really felled in the eighteenth century it will
not necessary fall into the categories of off the shelf building timber that
you get today.

When I last spoke to a specialist in timber in old buildings he told me that
the only judgement he would make with certainty by just looking at timber
was to sometimes declare it 'not oak'. None of your floors are oak.

Tim W