Doussie flooring - solid planks
Doussie is very hard and durable light brown to reddish-brown wood with a medium luster. Because doussie wood is so hard and strong,
Hardwood flooring
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Hardwood species
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Afromosia
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Ash
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Birch Canadian
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Black Cherry
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Black Walnut
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Bubinga
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Champagne Marron
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Cumaru
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Curupay
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Doussie
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Garapa
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Hard maple
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Ipe
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Iroko
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Jatoba
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Jequitiba
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Kayu Kuku
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Maple
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Massaranduba
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Merbau
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Morado
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Movingui
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Mutenya
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Olive
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Palisander
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Pear tree
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Red Oak
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Sapele
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Smoked Oak
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Sucupira
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Tamarindo
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Tarara Amarilla
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Tatajuba
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Tauari
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Teak
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Wenge
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White Oak
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Zebrano
SOLID PLANKSDoussie flooring - solid planks
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Doussie´s appearance
The sapwood of doussie is pale yellow to white, while the heartwood ranges from light brown to reddish-brown. The grain is straight and slightly interlocked. The wood has a medium luster, and the texture is somewhat coarse.
Doussie´s properties
Doussie is very hard and durable, and it has excellent resistance to attack by termites. The wood remains smooth under friction. Doussie shows only small movement with time. As a flooring option, Doussie's hardness is over twice that of southern yellow Pine, noticably harder than Hard Maple, almost identical to Hickory or Pecan.
Doussie´s workability
Doussie has good machining qualities, and it sands to a smooth surface. When nailed, it has good holding ability. The wood has satisfactory staining and polishing ability due to yellow deposits in pores.
Doussie´s principal uses
Because doussie wood is so hard and strong, it is among the most valuable exotic hardwood species. It uses include fine flooring, furniture, decking, stair rails, and construction.
- Weight: 769 kg/m3
- The possibility of renovation: More than 7 times
- Tangential shrinkage: 4 %
- Suitability with floor heating: Unsuitable
- Structure: Solid wood
- Stiffness: 132 1k kg/cm2
- Shearing Strength: 136 kg/cm2
- Radial Shrinkage: 2 %
- Origin: Ghana
- Maximum Crushing Strength: 735 kg/cm2
- Janka Hardness: 1770
- Density: 785 kg/m3
- Bending Strength: 1348 kg/cm2
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