| Birch Hardwood FlooringBirch hardwood flooring features creamy yellow or pale white sapwood in yellow birch and light reddish brown tinged with red heartwood. Sweet birch has light colored sapwood and heartwood is dark brown tinged with red. Birch has a medium figuring, straight, closed grain, even textured, occasional curly grain or wavy figure in some boards. Birch is hard and stiff, very strong. Workability: Sawing: good machine tools, difficult with hand tools. Nailing: excellent. |