Solid Hardwood, Engineered and Laminate Flooring - Please help identify this flooring

Hi,

I'm new to this community. I need a little help is finding out what type of wood this floor is. Picture is here, my guess is maple but I'm unsure.

http://www.virtualdj.com/blog/DJ%20Cyder/image62.jpg

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Link works for me, its not a blog thats just where is stored on my server, if you cut and paste it in its just one picture. why is the img code and link code turned off on this board? Past abuse?

Tried the link again and it failed. But went to the website and found the blog pictures. Active links are turned off due to past abuse.

Can't really tell what it is with all the light reflecting off them and all that orange on them. They are indeed beautiful. The woodwork is beautiful, too. Thank heavens no one painted it!

Maple has very little grain. When you start sanding, you will see that maple is nearly white. Red oak is pinkish, reddish in tone. White oak has somewhat of a honey tone.

Keep us posted with your progress. Are you DIYing? If so, go to www.nofma.org, click Publications, and download for free the National Oak Flooring Manufacturer's technical manual on finishing wood floors.

From afar, it looks like #1 yellow pine. But we'd need a closeup of the grain of the wood to make more of an educated guess.

Yellow pine generally has a straight but uneven grain with a medium texture. Yellowish white sapwood and reddish brown, orange, or yellow heartwood.

Hard to say from that picture. Do you have a close up? back lighting with the flash turned off works great.

Have you met any of your neighbors? Usually older houses built during the same time in the same neighborhood tend to have similar wood species used in their home. What type of wood flooring do they have? If you spy a house in your neighborhood that is the same or very similar in construction style, it could have been built by the same builder.

Heres the weird thing, this is actually a floor on top of another floor. The bottom flooring looking from the basement is oak, however this upper floor was installed long after. I'm really not sure how long after but judging by the looks of it its pretty old the house is 89 years old built in 1918, the floor seems to of been stained with a light colored stain of some sort. I'll take some close ups of it tomorrow and post them. The floor itself has very little gain even with the stain. Reminds me of a basketball court.

I'll be sanding the floors myself, in my early youth my dad used to restore old boats and showed me the tricks of the trade on how to I'm sure this isn't much harder then (minus 60 coats of spar varnish) the transom on a 57 barrel back.

It's so good to hear from you. In your first post you mention maple. Maple has very little grain. I did discern a little burl, so it could well be. And it may be possible because of all that orange camouflaging such a beautiful wood that we might not be able to discern if it's maple even with closeups until after the sanding.

Do post more pix. We love the smell of sawdust and home improvement. We get excited when someone like you comes along.

1918? They don't build them like that any more. Ah, your baseboards make me want to drool. My rental has the builder grade 3 1/4" baseboard & 2 1/4 window trim. Your rooms are so light and bright and happy, and you looked very happy DIY. Keep us posted.