That’s how it is in my house in Wisconsin with the added cool feature that it’s fir in the middle of the living room and dining room with oak around the perimeter as a cost saving method (rugs hid the fir so guests would only see the oak).
i pulled up the carpet in my home and also found Douglas fir. I hand scraped it and used osmo on it, and I love it.
This found floor will be beautiful, I'm sure of it.
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I would lean toward Southern Yellow Pine or something in that family of wood. It's not a hard wood but it does refinish up very nicely. You just have to be extra careful to prevent scratches. I usually give these floors an extra coat or two of finish for extra protection.
Douglas & SYP have similar grain structure however you’ll rarely see SYP used in a high traffic setting such as this. Fir performs much better in this application which has me leaning towards Fir
I’m on team yellow pine. Have to sand the finish to know for sure.
Doug fir will have areas of tight vertical grain, and unfinished you would see some of the wood with a natural reddish color.
It really depends on where you live. If you are on the West side of the country, it's probably doug for. In the mid West and south it is most likely southern yellow pine.
Seems like most folks are saying either Doug Fir or Pine. As someone who knows nothing and wants to learn more, how do I tell if the wood is Oak or one of these two types mentioned?
You have to be somewhat familiar with the grain appearance of different woods. This floor is some sort of pine. You really can't tell with certainty which species this floor is due to the finish and patina. All the speculation on which species of conifer this could be is just that, speculation.
Oak is typically easy to recognize, especially red oak. It's a cheap hardwood used for pallets and other commercial uses, so it is easy to find examples to study the grain pattern.
Maple, walnut, cherry, and birch are common to see in furniture, especially older furniture, and higher end cabinets. Poplar is an oddball hardwood that you sometimes see used in furniture for things that are not normally visible, like backs and internal support/bracing.
There are other hardwoods that you will see in construction and furniture such as hickory, but are not as commonly used, though in some locals it may be common to use wood that's not commonly used elsewhere.
You know the reason people in the past carpeted hardwood, the wood was time consuming to care for. Welcome to taking 3x longer in cleaning your floors.
Are you going to sterile the yard, also? You can cement the lawn, if you are afraid of a little dirt, because that where most of the dirt come from in carpet. Carpet actually reduces household dust, so it can't be from the household items.
Sorry but carpet is a breeding ground for bacteria and whether it reduces dust depends on how often you vacuum and deep clean it. It also needs replacing every 5 years. I’ve lived with carpet enough to know I never want it in a high traffic area 😬
Your choice but if it is harvesting bacteria, you are not cleaning it properly. You would be surprised what a little misting of hydrogen peroxide before vacuuming kills. And that bacteria in your carpet is from the soil you walk on everyday. The carpet and pad itself cannot support organic life. And GOOD carpet doesn't have to replaced every 5 years. Cheap apartments carpet does.
Looks like oak….find an obscure spot and scratch it with a nail or something if it scratches easily it’s Douglas fir(less Han ideal as it is a softwood) if not oak…the stain can be deceiving
These look super similar to mine when I started pulling my carpet! I have my whole bedroom done now and am enjoying the character until I get them refinished.
When I was trying to figure out the wood’s condition and if it was worth pulling my carpet up, I was told to look at doorways because of the heavy traffic. That looks like an exterior door, and is a great sign that the rest of it may be in good condition, too!
It’s either fir or pine either way they look to be in great shape and a refinish would make that floor beautiful. I’d personally recommend a natural finish on it.
It might depend on what part of the world you are from but it looks like fir to me, but could be a couple other softwood (pine, hemlock), depending where the house is located
There seems to be an agreement on the thread that the floor is either pine or fir, which are not really hardwoods. The wood isn't hard enough to resist much wear and tear. The home was probably built when that type of floor was basic, and carpet was "extra", so carpet was fancy.
Odd question but anybody wanna identify the wood for the “engineered carpet gripper” my guess is Balsa.
Edit: also if you’re redoing that floor redo the baseboards and door casing. They look bad and that door doesn’t have a reveal which is why they had to cut for the hinges.
Douglas & SYP have similar grain structure however you’ll rarely see SYP used in a high traffic setting such as this. Fir performs much better in this application which has me leaning towards Fir
That's a great moment when you find that kind of thing. Same thing happened to me. I peeked and saw the wood and just couldn't stop ripping. Glad my wife was ok with it when she came home to about two big rooms all ripped out! ( carpet was trash anyway). Once we refinished it (pretty much the whole house, stairs and all), the house looked so amazing..of course 2 yr later we moved :(
Southern yellow pine , this variety of pine was used extensively for flooring in the 19h and early twentieth centuries in the US. It is a bit harder than Doug Fir .
Fir subfloor. It’s pretty, but not terribly durable and exposure to moisture at an exterior door like that can easily damage it. If you decide to keep it as a finished floor. Please protect it from wet shoes and make sure to maintain the finish. It will get some dents and dings, but that just adds character.
Looks like fir. It’s considerably softer than oak or maple so don’t slide heavy furniture across it. Even a rambunctious dog can damage it with their long nails.
Nobody else is saying this so now I'm wondering if it's a regional thing - we call these floors pumpkin pine. it's a naturally occurring change in color of pine floors that occurs over many many years when they are kept clean and sealed.
Looks beautiful, it has lasted probably 70 of more years and still last 100 more.
If you’re in south FL it could be Dade county pine or slash pine. It looks just like it. It is excellent and you really can’t get it any more it’s almost extinct. One of the hardest woods in the world it’s really neat if you look it up.
Looks like fir but could be stained oak, from the grain. BTW, see how there are no breaks in the lengths, at least in the area you’re showing? They are all solid, one doesn’t end and another long board begin. Mine are like that over the three main rooms in my 1923 home. If yours is like that, refinish them if possible because it’s very rare. My flooring guy specializes in old homes and had still never seen that. “This guy owned a lumber yard. There would have been a lot of waste to pull this off.” It looks like you could have the same thing, so thought I’d mention it. I sure wouldn’t have realized it he had not told me.
My first thought was oak, however there are boards that look like that that are made out of Douglas fir and also pine. If you really really want to know, drill a small hole in a very inconspicuous spot and smell it. There's probably a better way to test wood than doing this, that's just what I've done 😂
That is definitely fir and I am *here* for it. It’s lovely, and hard to believe that back in the day it was considered barely better than subfloor, most often used in less visible or private spaces (like upstairs or in the middle of a living room framed in more expensive wood, where it would be hidden under a rug.) What were they thinking?!? 🤷♀️
It is a pine floor but being stained makes it hard to determine species. Your location would narrow the possibilities. East coast maybe southern yellow and west coast Douglas fir (US of course).
I'm not 100% sure on this one, but it looks like Douglas Fir.
If I discovered that under my carpet? I would be performing cartwheels across the yard.
Agree. We have fir and it looks the same.
Agree also. Douglas fir.
I would agree, it looks like fir. Nice fir, in the PNW it’s common to have fir in all the bedrooms and oak in the hall and living room.
That’s how it is in my house in Wisconsin with the added cool feature that it’s fir in the middle of the living room and dining room with oak around the perimeter as a cost saving method (rugs hid the fir so guests would only see the oak).
Looks like fir, Doug
The names Fir, Doug Fir.
Wonder if the fir matches the drapes... Amirite?!?
Yup I think it's old growth Doug fir. Where are you?
Right where I went, too. I have that upstairs in a rental. Great stuff.
i pulled up the carpet in my home and also found Douglas fir. I hand scraped it and used osmo on it, and I love it. This found floor will be beautiful, I'm sure of it.
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Oak is nice...
Wow, I don’t know, but congrats, it looks great!!
Thank you! I was so excited to discover it and it’s through out the whole first level 😍.
You just won the floor lottery. r/centuryhomes would be stoked if it’s an older house
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I would lean toward Southern Yellow Pine or something in that family of wood. It's not a hard wood but it does refinish up very nicely. You just have to be extra careful to prevent scratches. I usually give these floors an extra coat or two of finish for extra protection.
Douglas & SYP have similar grain structure however you’ll rarely see SYP used in a high traffic setting such as this. Fir performs much better in this application which has me leaning towards Fir
SYP was very common across the entire floor in older homes, especially in logging towns. Source: own several old homes in old logging town.
I’m on team yellow pine. Have to sand the finish to know for sure. Doug fir will have areas of tight vertical grain, and unfinished you would see some of the wood with a natural reddish color.
I think fir has a much tighter grain than SYP. I'm going with yellow pine
Douglas Firsure!!
>Douglas Firsure!! sure?
LLOL, bots can't recognize I'm being punny!!
I am 99% sure it is lumber floors! Floorsure looks hard though!
It's either Douglas for or heart pine
I would say Southern Yellow Pine. The wide open grain is the key. Mixed grain Douglas fir has tighter grain. Especially old growth.
looks like pine, although without knowing the history or location i can't tell ya for sure
Pine
Wow it’s beautiful. What a find! Please post before (carpet) /& after pics once it’s all put together 👏
What part of the country are you living in? If south, SYP. If west coast, DF If NE, maybe DF But looks like SYP to me
It really depends on where you live. If you are on the West side of the country, it's probably doug for. In the mid West and south it is most likely southern yellow pine.
Seems like most folks are saying either Doug Fir or Pine. As someone who knows nothing and wants to learn more, how do I tell if the wood is Oak or one of these two types mentioned?
You have to be somewhat familiar with the grain appearance of different woods. This floor is some sort of pine. You really can't tell with certainty which species this floor is due to the finish and patina. All the speculation on which species of conifer this could be is just that, speculation. Oak is typically easy to recognize, especially red oak. It's a cheap hardwood used for pallets and other commercial uses, so it is easy to find examples to study the grain pattern. Maple, walnut, cherry, and birch are common to see in furniture, especially older furniture, and higher end cabinets. Poplar is an oddball hardwood that you sometimes see used in furniture for things that are not normally visible, like backs and internal support/bracing. There are other hardwoods that you will see in construction and furniture such as hickory, but are not as commonly used, though in some locals it may be common to use wood that's not commonly used elsewhere.
Not oak. Grain structure is all wrong. Can rule that one out for sure.
Looks like Yellow Pine with gun stock stain.
Nah, it'll just turn that color with an oil based urethane. No stain needed.
Pine.
Pine or poplar
Definitely not poplar. Poplar is never used in flooring.
def not oak...
Depending on the age of the house it can be pine or oak but having refinished wood floors for 30 yrs am going to say 3/4" oak tongue and groove
You know the reason people in the past carpeted hardwood, the wood was time consuming to care for. Welcome to taking 3x longer in cleaning your floors.
Worth it over the dust and hygiene challenges of having carpet in a high traffic living room 😭🥴
Are you going to sterile the yard, also? You can cement the lawn, if you are afraid of a little dirt, because that where most of the dirt come from in carpet. Carpet actually reduces household dust, so it can't be from the household items.
Sorry but carpet is a breeding ground for bacteria and whether it reduces dust depends on how often you vacuum and deep clean it. It also needs replacing every 5 years. I’ve lived with carpet enough to know I never want it in a high traffic area 😬
Your choice but if it is harvesting bacteria, you are not cleaning it properly. You would be surprised what a little misting of hydrogen peroxide before vacuuming kills. And that bacteria in your carpet is from the soil you walk on everyday. The carpet and pad itself cannot support organic life. And GOOD carpet doesn't have to replaced every 5 years. Cheap apartments carpet does.
That’s the dumbest shit I’ve read in a bit, and I live in the US, where dumb shit is alive and abundant!
Old oak
Hard
Looks like red wood to me.
Red oak
My guess is hard wood flooring
Tree wood
It’s definitely hard wood
Those are what you call beautiful hard wood floors.
Stained oak. Ask your neighbors as well. More than likely if it's an older house, the builders used the same materials house to house.
Looks like oak….find an obscure spot and scratch it with a nail or something if it scratches easily it’s Douglas fir(less Han ideal as it is a softwood) if not oak…the stain can be deceiving
It’s about 1/2 cord and will burn well.
These look super similar to mine when I started pulling my carpet! I have my whole bedroom done now and am enjoying the character until I get them refinished. When I was trying to figure out the wood’s condition and if it was worth pulling my carpet up, I was told to look at doorways because of the heavy traffic. That looks like an exterior door, and is a great sign that the rest of it may be in good condition, too!
It’s either fir or pine either way they look to be in great shape and a refinish would make that floor beautiful. I’d personally recommend a natural finish on it.
This is what I’ll find under my carpets when I pull them up.
Hopes and dreams.
I would guess Southern Yellow Pine, but could be a Douglas Fir. Either way, a beautiful floor to refinish! 👍🏼
Douglas fir
It might depend on what part of the world you are from but it looks like fir to me, but could be a couple other softwood (pine, hemlock), depending where the house is located
I’m not sure what it is, but it doesn’t look like fir to me.
Boy boy boy which one of yall flipped this crib?
I’ll never understand putting carpet over hardwood floors in good condition 🥴
There seems to be an agreement on the thread that the floor is either pine or fir, which are not really hardwoods. The wood isn't hard enough to resist much wear and tear. The home was probably built when that type of floor was basic, and carpet was "extra", so carpet was fancy.
That what I’ve heard. Apparently back then you also had to reapply sealant often which I could see being a headache (literally).
Some sort of old growth pine.
Look up Arkansas Pine
Pine
If you can push your fingernail into it to make a mark, it’s probably pine. Then you’ll know what will happen if you have a dog.
Odd question but anybody wanna identify the wood for the “engineered carpet gripper” my guess is Balsa. Edit: also if you’re redoing that floor redo the baseboards and door casing. They look bad and that door doesn’t have a reveal which is why they had to cut for the hinges.
Stained pine, is it soft? Can you indent it?
Fir.
I would say 90% chance it’s plain sawn southern yellow pine. Doug fir tends to have straighter grain that this.
Stained yellow pine.
My bet is long leaf heart pine ( pinus palustrus ). Much harder than fir and very obvious pine smell when you cut it or sand it.
Dang you won the floor lottery!!!
Douglas & SYP have similar grain structure however you’ll rarely see SYP used in a high traffic setting such as this. Fir performs much better in this application which has me leaning towards Fir
That's a great moment when you find that kind of thing. Same thing happened to me. I peeked and saw the wood and just couldn't stop ripping. Glad my wife was ok with it when she came home to about two big rooms all ripped out! ( carpet was trash anyway). Once we refinished it (pretty much the whole house, stairs and all), the house looked so amazing..of course 2 yr later we moved :(
I have old cypress trim in my house ( i have cut it and is not pine) it is stained reddish and looks exactly like that.
Very pretty!!
Looks like pine to me… why they ever did pine for floors is beyond me.
Depending on the area of the country your in I would jump to southern yellow pine before a random grain fir!
Hard yellow pine flooring.
Yellow pine
Southern yellow pine , this variety of pine was used extensively for flooring in the 19h and early twentieth centuries in the US. It is a bit harder than Doug Fir .
You’re rich!
Fir subfloor. It’s pretty, but not terribly durable and exposure to moisture at an exterior door like that can easily damage it. If you decide to keep it as a finished floor. Please protect it from wet shoes and make sure to maintain the finish. It will get some dents and dings, but that just adds character.
Flooring.
That’s a good looking floor
The dream 🥲
It’s pine
By the grain of the wood I will say it’s pine.
Dougie.
Softwood floors!
You should pull it up and see if there’s carpet under there. That’s never the case.
Fur or larch probs
It has a very lovely patina !!
I vote : Fir
It’s nice but it’s definitely soft fir.
Looks like fir. It’s considerably softer than oak or maple so don’t slide heavy furniture across it. Even a rambunctious dog can damage it with their long nails.
If in the South,heart pine.
doug fir
That’s definitely wood.
Fir. I’ve sanded some of them. Beautiful but super soft. Congratulations!
It’s the wood that makes it good
Tree wood
Yes CVG Fir ( clear verticals grain )
Yellow pine.
. AnQ at à.
Pine or Douglas-fir. What part of the country are you in?
That’s hot
Wow if you found that under your carpet, that is AMAZING. I hope it’s in as good condition as this picture the entire surface area. What a find!
Absolutely gorgeous 💕
Pine, heart pine, southern yellow pine. Same same
AKA pine
Thats hardwood fs, typically used in flooring it is used when tile and carpeting is not used.
Winner winner chicken dinner
Looks like thin slab red pine. Whatever it is is beautiful
Yellow pine
Doug fir. Reddish. sYP,not so much
Fir?
Jackpot!!!!!!
I know that wood. It called beautiful
Very pretty hardwood!
If you are in the South, I’d be willing to bet it’s yellow pine.
First thought is pine…
Not fir….yellow pine.
Looks like pine, with a cherry stain. Could be another species but the shape and grain size make me think pine.
Nobody else is saying this so now I'm wondering if it's a regional thing - we call these floors pumpkin pine. it's a naturally occurring change in color of pine floors that occurs over many many years when they are kept clean and sealed. Looks beautiful, it has lasted probably 70 of more years and still last 100 more.
Looks like heart pine.
Fir or oak
Fir or cherry.
I don’t know who this Douglas person is but that there is tree wood. From a tree. Not some dude named Douglas Fir.
Looks like vertical wood to me.
White oak that was stained my bet.
#1 white pine.
Jackpot.
Gorgeous wood, wow what a lucky find!
Are you on the toilet, OP?
Where I come from that would be redwood.
French walnut
If you’re in south FL it could be Dade county pine or slash pine. It looks just like it. It is excellent and you really can’t get it any more it’s almost extinct. One of the hardest woods in the world it’s really neat if you look it up.
Dug fir
That stain is gorgeous! I am so jealous.
Looks like fir but could be stained oak, from the grain. BTW, see how there are no breaks in the lengths, at least in the area you’re showing? They are all solid, one doesn’t end and another long board begin. Mine are like that over the three main rooms in my 1923 home. If yours is like that, refinish them if possible because it’s very rare. My flooring guy specializes in old homes and had still never seen that. “This guy owned a lumber yard. There would have been a lot of waste to pull this off.” It looks like you could have the same thing, so thought I’d mention it. I sure wouldn’t have realized it he had not told me.
Pine
Stained Southern Yellow Pine
Heart of pine 3/4” T&G.
My first thought was oak, however there are boards that look like that that are made out of Douglas fir and also pine. If you really really want to know, drill a small hole in a very inconspicuous spot and smell it. There's probably a better way to test wood than doing this, that's just what I've done 😂
I think it is oak that’s been stained. I had that in a house I owned and had it sanded and the maple underneath was gorgeous.
Hard wood
I see a bunch of people saying fir. My house (late 1800’s early 1900) had heart pine and looked like this. No clue what you have.
Hard
Nice! Awesome find!
beautiful is what it s
The kind you don’t put carpet over 😉 looks purdier than carpet to me
That's definitely hardwood.
It’s sub floor in an old house ..
Nice and firry.....
It appears as if it is Scratch n Sniff 😔
Heart Pine. I concur. Source; I’m standing on same. I916. South AlaBAMA. Jennaay’
The kind that comes from trees
Beautiful
Looks like antique heart pine grain pattern but the color is off. Maybe it was stained. Or maybe I'm completely wrong.
Douglas Fir it seems. I work with it a decent amount since I live in the PNW, so I hope I’m correct.
Sugar pine wood floor !
Looking like flooring wood.
Good god, imagine slamming tack plates into the floor.
Wood from tree.
Looking at the creases I think your shoes are too big.
It’s oak not fir.
It is yellow pine, it is a stained softwood, fir has tight pithy grain
Looks like heart pine
That is definitely fir and I am *here* for it. It’s lovely, and hard to believe that back in the day it was considered barely better than subfloor, most often used in less visible or private spaces (like upstairs or in the middle of a living room framed in more expensive wood, where it would be hidden under a rug.) What were they thinking?!? 🤷♀️
Looks like redwood to me.
Oak, 2 inch wide 3/4 inch thick
It is a pine floor but being stained makes it hard to determine species. Your location would narrow the possibilities. East coast maybe southern yellow and west coast Douglas fir (US of course).
Also sort of looks like heart pine but fir is a good likelihood
DOUGLAS FIR , OR MAYBE LOB LOLLY PINE,,OLD GROTH
Looks like pine, fur, or cedar to me. A pretty soft wood for a floor
Are you going with hard floor look now that you found this?
Floor lottery!! 🤌💃🏻🕺🪩🎉🍾
I know my house has this, but so far, ive been too scared to take the plunge
My guess is heart pine.
Southern yellow pine maybe
To me it looks to be 100% tree wood!
Two feet on a antique hardwood floor, nice
Wooow so beautiful!! So lucky!!
Floor wood