Ipe flooring - solid planks
Along with its extreme hardness, strength, weight, density, and durability, Ipe is also one of the most stable woods available.
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 PLANKSIpe flooring - solid planks
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Ipe´s appearance
The heartwood of ipe ranges from olive brown to blackish, though it can have lighter or darker striping that is sharply demarcated from the whitish or yellowish sapwood. Ipe is a low-luster wood with an oily appearance, a fine-to-medium texture, and a grain that ranges from straight to very irregular. I pe can have lighter or darker stripes. Ipe is oily, extremely hard, dense, durable and stable wood. Ipe is not difficult to maintain. Suitable in areas with thermal shocks. It is often mistakenly confused with the Lapacho. Lapacho is quite different much less prized timber.
Ipe´s properties
Along with its extreme hardness, strength, weight, density, and durability, ipe is also one of the most stable woods available. However, it is important to "over-dry" the wood in a kiln to avoid excessive shrinkage when installing. As a flooring option, ipe is an incredibly hard and durable wood species.
Ipe´s workability
Ipe is moderately difficult to work, given its hardness, especially with hand tools, and it has a blunting effect on most cutting edges. Pre-drilling is required when nailing the wood.
Ipe´s principal uses
Ipe is ideal for wood flooring where durability and high shock resistance are needed, such as in industrial environments. It is also used in railroad crossties, heavy construction, tool handles, and decorative veneers.
- Weight: 817 kg/m3
- The possibility of renovation: More than 7 times
- Tangential shrinkage: 9 %
- Suitability with floor heating: Unsuitable
- Structure: Solid wood
- Stiffness: 187 1k kg/cm2
- Shearing Strength: 200 kg/cm2
- Radial Shrinkage: 6 %
- Origin: Honduras
- Maximum Crushing Strength: 784 kg/cm2
- Janka Hardness: 3684
- Density: 897 kg/m3
- Bending Strength: 1683 kg/cm2
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