Coastal Wood Flooring Blog

This holiday give your home a gift of hardwood floors. Not only will it look great but can also be done for a reasonable price. Impress your family and friends you have over for the holidays with new wood floors that will be sure to impress them. Not only are they easy on the eyes but also easy to keep clean and maintain. We have a wide selection of hardwood floors including laminate wood flooring, engineered wood flooring, porcelain wood flooring, cork wood flooringand more.

Coastal Wood flooring is a family owned business and stand by their quality of products. We have a dedicated, knowledgeable and productive staff that works together to serve Los Angeles hardwood flooring and the rest of Southern California. We will strive for exceptional customer satisfaction, which occurs when we deliver precisely what our customers expect. Your satisfaction is our reward!

Contact our wood floor experts today for  the lowest wholesale prices for all of our high quality flooring, Guaranteed.

Coastal Wood Flooring is happy to welcome this Fall season with brand new products (HomerWood Flooring, Ark Flooring, and Johnson Flooring) and more importantly prices that have Fallen!!! Come into our warehouse and take a tour of our huge showroom.  Inventory is good on all brands and collections, so there is no need to worry about us running out any time soon…….. the only thing; is that given these LOW PRICES…….”soon” might come much quicker than you may expect.

See you soon… 🙂

Though many people don’t enjoy stepping onto a scale, they sure as love reading or interpreting one…. the Janka Hardness Rating is how the relative hardness of a wood species is measured.  This test measures the force needed to embed a steel ball (.444 inch in diameter) to half its diameter in the piece of wood being tested, with the rating measured in pounds of force per square inch. So with this rating system, the higher the number the harder the wood. Today, most people are on the hunt for a really high Janka Ranking; but they fail to realize that every wood on the market can be Scratched.  Most flooring customers think that a high Janka Rating will prevent scratches on their new floor, but that is really far from the truth.  The harder the wood (High Janka Rating) the harder it will be for that particular wood floor to get “dented”………..Denting a floor and Scratching a floor are two very different things.

Keep In Mind: What is harder? Metal or Wood? Correct, Metal is. But can I come up to a car and scratch it? Ohh, Yes I can!

So even if you buy the hardest wood in the world and you decide to drag some furniture w/ exposed metal legs across the room; I can promise that with will all of the HIGH Janka Numbers that your floor may possess you will be very disappointed as to how your floor may look after the fact.

So, the answer to the question; Do Janka Ratings Really Matter? They really don’t after about 1,300 points (the approx. hardness of Oak).

The new Villa Caprisi line of Hardwood Flooring offers a 5/8″ total thickness with a 4.2mm wear layer, so that you can sand it several times.  What makes this Pre-Finished Engineered European Oak Wood Floors so spectacular is that it is 9-1/2″ wide and up to 7-feet long!!! There are several styles and colors available and let me tell you something… At LESS than $8.00 sq/ft nothing on the market can make such a Grand Statement.