River's Bend Wood Products Inc. - Nova Scotia, Canada

While wholesaling continues to be very important to this Nova Scotia based Company, the new warehouse outlet has allowed them the opportunity to increase retail sales and expand product lines.

River’s Bend handles its product from saw log to finished product.

We invite everyone to stop in and see our showroom. We have 16 large samples of flooring right on the floor so you can what your floor will look like when its down.

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Flooring

Species

Yellow Birch

Our most popular species. It has a medium figured grain with colours contrasting from a light gold to reddish brown. It is 2% softer than red oak (Janka 1260) and 8% more stable in dimensional stability.

Hard Maple

Also known as Rock Maple or Sugar Maple. It has a closed subdued grain with medium figuring. Colours vary from creamy white to a light reddish brown. Maple is 12 % harder (Janka 1450) than red oak and 4% more stable.

Ash

Probably an undersold species. Ash has a bold grain similar to Oak. The colours vary from a creamy white to a light tan to dark brown. It is 2% harder than red oak (Janka 1320) and 26% more stable dimensionally.

Red Oak

Oak has a bold porous open grain with a reddish brown or tan colour. Oak is used for the benchmark for hardness in hardwood flooring (Janka 1290).

Grades

Select and Better is uniform in colour and longer in lengths. The wood is usually from the outside of the log (sapwood). The light colour makes smaller rooms appear larger.

Mill-run has an attractive mix of natural colours from the sapwood and heartwood all colour variations are accepted. This grade may contain small sound knots. This grade is usually shorter in length than select and better but the average length of pieces is not to be less than 33”.

Rustic flooring provides a floor just as the name describes. Knots are permitted and all the colours in the wood are permitted. This floor is very serviceable and a favourite of many.

Red Birch is a specialty item produced from the heartwood of yellow birch. It is close in colour to cherry but doesn’t darken as much. It is 24% harder than cherry and makes a beautiful floor.