When planning to build a staircase in your home, you are faced with a choice - to make stairs from inexpensive pine or invest more money in the production of stairs from oak or beech.
In this article, we will help you understand this issue.
Wood is divided into soft, inexpensive, resinous, coniferous woods, and hardwood, which does not contain resin and has a high density and hardness. Pine and spruce are softwoods, oak and beech are hardwoods.
Why pay more when you can save?
The answer is quite simple - soft woods, such as pine, unable to withstand heavy loads on stairs as well as hardwood. Falling on the stairs of various objects, walking on it in heels, traces of the claws of animals - all this will quickly affect inexpensive wood. Considering the fact that the replacement of a staircase or its parts is a complex and expensive process - no savings!
Such a complex structure as a staircase must be made with the highest quality possible, and its creation must be planned, remembering that stairs are built to last. Created a staircase oak or beech, you do not have to spend time and money on its repair - such a staircase will last you a long time without losing your appearance and quality.
Specifications of wood
Quality Assurance
The Joinery Center manufactures hardwood stairs to meet all possible safety and durability requirements.
The equipment used by us for the manufacture of stairs is made in Italy, Belgium, Finland and, of course, Russia.
In the process of creating and installing stairs, we use only professional materials, such as:
- glue of the increased firmness of production of Germany;
- board grade 0-1 from Absheronsk, Krasnodar Territory;
- tinting made in Finland;
- lacquer parquet proizvodstva Germany.
We also use technologies for the production of products and installation works developed by our technologists. Our team consists of the best professionals in this field.
Who do we work for
We manufacture wooden stairs to order for private buyers, and we also actively cooperate with designers, construction companies and trade organizations on special terms.
Today, pine, birch, beech and oak are the most popular and common wood species in Russian furniture production. A person who decides to purchase furniture made of wood for the first time always has the question "Which wood to choose furniture from?". Below is a comparison of all 4 types of wood, their features, advantages and disadvantages.
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On a pine cut, the brown-red / yellow core and yellowish-white sapwood are clearly distinguished - the transition between them is quite sharp, especially in mature trees. Pine wood is rich in resin passages up to 0.1 mm in diameter, which are visible during any kind of sawing.
Strength
Pine wood is durable, resinous, rather hard, especially in the core - 0.52 g / cm3, viscous and moderately prone to warping. Pine wood is easily sawn, processed, holds fasteners well, is perfectly painted and impregnated with stains.
Color
Pine has a heterogeneous color, often - spots and knots. If you use its natural color and texture, then it should be borne in mind that “natural pine” furniture will be appropriate either in a rustic, bright ethnic style, or in loft interiors, “alpine shepherd houses” and the like.
The peculiarity of pine wood is that it looks most advantageous either in very gentle tones or in saturated ones. The best choice is natural colors: “chocolate”, “dark caramel”, “buckwheat honey”. The pine looks great brushed, bleached or simply varnished according to the sample.
Birch
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Birch has white-yellow or white with a reddish, brown tint wood, the heartwood and sapwood do not differ (non-core wood). The core rays on it are visible only in a radial section, annual increments differ little, are well expressed only in late growth.
Birch wood can have reddish-brown spots or a special fiber structure caused by serration, a genetic defect that causes the fibers to grow in a twisted and erratic pattern. This vice in carpentry is considered a virtue, because it allows you to get very beautiful products. Sometimes they meet a birch affected by a viral infection, as a result of which there are bark blotches in the wood, which, when cut, form brown dots (specks) and stripes. Such a biological defect is an indisputable value in the creation of products.
Strength
The strength characteristics of birch determine its appearance. The most dense and durable wood is iron birch, slightly inferior to it is the wood of yellow, stone and black birches. In furniture production, mainly drooping (warty) and downy birch is used, which, in terms of density and strength, occupies a middle position between hard and soft varieties - 0.65 g / cm3.Their wood is viscous and elastic, which makes it possible to produce curly (bent) elements of high strength, for example, lamellas for orthopedic furniture bases, which are equipped in our store. These same qualities allow birch wood to securely hold fasteners, stick together tightly - products made from it are difficult to loosen and break. That is why in the budget segment they are mainly made of birch, since this furniture is most often subjected to cyclic loads.
Carving on a birch bed or chair, cabinet can be of high complexity, without threatening to break soon, lose elements.
However, birch is not at all resistant to moisture: it rots faster than others and becomes unusable or is affected by a fungus.
Color
When furniture of bright color, smooth, even tone is required, birch is the best choice. Combinations of smooth painted birch and textured natural oak look spectacular - they are increasingly used in the design of modern furniture, allowing you to create extraordinary and noble products.
It is not accepted to use birch in natural color - the products look unfinished. But birch wood can be painted in colors expensive varieties wood, imitating their texture. Also, birch is great for painting with enamels (white, ivory, etc.), thanks to the properties of birch, enamel retains its appearance for many years.
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White beech wood, has a slight yellow or red tint. If the tree is old, the wood may be red-brown - "ripe", it acquires a similar color during "steaming". The beech has well-defined wide core rays and annual layers, which are wavy, creating a particularly interesting drawing. With a radial cut of the trunk, the rays become in appearance shiny stripes or “mirrors”, with a tangential cut they become brown “grains”, giving the pattern mottling, or “spindles”.
Strength
In beech, the wood is dense, fairly hard - 0.68 g / cm3, has the highest bending ability of the species presented, is perfectly processed and accepts any type of finish with a high aesthetic return. With long-term use, beech is not much inferior to oak in strength, because furniture made from it will last for many years.
But beech wood loses oak in terms of resistance to decay, absorbs moisture from the air more strongly. In terms of its tendency to biological damage, beech is inferior to pine. But furniture located in a dry comfortable room is not threatened by all of the above. When ordering a bed or tables, cabinets made of beech, you will get beautiful, elegant products with a rich texture, noble color, wear-resistant and durable.
Color
Beech is a versatile tree in terms of color. It looks beautiful and noble in white, ivory, wenge, dark and light walnut, chestnut. Magnificent surfaces are made of bleached beech and natural, covered with colorless varnish.
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Oak core color- dark or light brown: the core is filled with thyls - outgrowths of cells that accumulate gums, tannins, resins - strong natural antiseptics. Oak sapwood is yellowish-brown. The trunk of an oak grows with highly developed core rays, which largely form the characteristic pattern of wood. The beauty of oak products is also determined by the large, very expressive texture of wood.
The beauty of oak is most fully revealed in solid wood products. In our store you can order - beds, chests of drawers, "antique" furniture, in which oak wood is presented in all its virtues: rich and representative texture, elegant color or artificially aged.
Strength
Oak wood has exceptional strength at a not very high density - 0.69 g / cm3. It is difficult to cut it, especially to perform fine carving - the wood splits, and its patterning, with an unsuccessful choice of a unit of wood, makes the elements inexpressive. Therefore, on oak products, often, the thread is made from a different material.
Oak is extremely resistant to biological damage, physical stress - long-term and short-term, the destructive power of water. With unlimited durability - oak furniture will last indefinitely, due to its beauty, oak wood is one of the most valuable.
Color
Oak is so noble that it is often simply covered clear varnish, only emphasizing the dignity of wood - its patterning, natural luster, expressive texture.
varnished oak
Bleached oak is beautiful, imitating the color of old European furniture, which was literally whitewashed (limed) so that it looks neat and is not damaged by rot and a bug. Bleached has many shades - dark gray (“aged”), light gray (“Arctic”), pinkish, lilac. Furniture made of bleached oak wood gives interiors a special nobility, it looks like an alternative to fashionable remake and gloss, which is why it is so popular in classic and vintage European and American interiors, especially those oriented to the colonial era.
Patinated oak has similar qualities. The wood is brushed before painting - the soft summer fibers are removed with a stiff brush, so that as a result the hard ones come out, forming a unique wood pattern. The wood is then painted with white enamel, and the exposed veins are left naturally colored or covered with a darker color.
patinated oak
Emphasizes the aristocracy of oak and the color "ivory". Products in this color look very expensive, give the interior solemnity, nobility of antiquity and classics.
Wood price comparison
The price of a certain type of wood is determined by its qualities. Oak has the best combination of functional and aesthetic properties, because furniture from it is more expensive than others.
Beech follows oak in terms of value, then birch. Cheaper than other pine.
The cost of the finished product is also influenced by production technologies, for example, brushing, and the complexity of the design, the use of patinas, varnishes and paints.
Summing up, several conclusions can be drawn:
1. When choosing budget furniture, you should choose pine or birch. Moreover, when choosing chairs or stools, preference should be given to birch, because. it will keep furniture from loosening much longer than pine.
2. Choosing more expensive furniture, you should give preference to beech or oak. The strength characteristics of these types of wood are quite close to each other, so they choose mainly between patterns. Also often applied to oak additional types processing (patina, bleaching, etc.).
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Despite the abundance of modern materials, natural wood furniture does not lose its leading position. Environmental friendliness, hypoallergenicity, natural unique beauty and durability of natural wood furniture are becoming especially relevant.
Among the popular types of wood for making furniture, oak and pine stand out. Oak wood is one of the most valuable and prestigious hardwood, pine is one of the traditional, but no less attractive coniferous species in terms of its properties.
Oak wood furniture has long been considered the standard of sophistication, elegance and prestige, and has been an invariable attribute of wealthy homes. Today, little has changed, and oak furniture remains one of the most sought-after, albeit expensive, options.
Among the advantages of solid oak furniture are the following:
- incredible strength and durability;
- high reliability and safety;
- the unique beauty of wood and decorative properties that allow craftsmen to create masterpieces that will adorn any interior, despite the fact that oak is mainly considered a classic of the genre.
Characteristics and properties of oak wood
Oak wood is distinguished by a number of unique characteristics, thanks to which the furniture turns out to be special, starting from aesthetics and ending with operational properties:
- beauty texture characterized by the presence of clear heart-shaped beams and light sapwood. Wood fibers are extremely strong, which makes processing difficult. To work with oak, highly hardened cutters are required.
- Oak is a hardwood. Hardness is determined by the Brinell method by exposing the surface to be tested with a hardened steel ball 10 mm in diameter with a force of 100 kg. For oak, this figure is 3.7 kgf / mm2. This means that solid oak furniture is not easily scratched, bent or damaged. In any case, oak furniture is perfectly restored, which has been repeatedly proven in practice.
- With high hardness and strength oak wood is quite flexible and plastic , which has a positive effect on decorative properties. The array is malleable to various techniques decorative processing: carving, brushing for the purpose of texturing and artificial aging, staining, bleaching. Even thin oak shelves can withstand significant weight for a long time without irrevocably changing their shape.
- The chemical properties of oak determine it rot resistance . The massif and, accordingly, the facade of oak furniture are not practically afraid of moisture and temperature changes, which makes it possible to make furniture from solid oak not only for the kitchen, but also for the bathroom.
An interesting fact is the ability of oak wood to change color to dark purple with a green tint during prolonged direct contact with water. This is the rarest color obtained naturally. Such wood is the most expensive. However, this example clearly illustrates the high durability, reliability and stability of solid oak.
Solid pine furniture
No less popular for the manufacture of furniture wood species is pine. On the one hand, it does not belong to the elite types of wood, and therefore is considered one of the most affordable options, on the other hand, solid pine furniture is gaining more and more popularity due to the combination of properties, features and characteristics.
Features of pine wood and furniture from it
Pine wood has a characteristic soft yellow tint and a pronounced pattern, often with rustic elements, which gives it a special charm. Pine furniture fills the room with comfort, creating a special atmosphere of simplicity and naturalness. Therefore, pine furniture is considered the most suitable for interiors in country, ethnic, eco, Scandinavian style and their variations.
- Pine is a soft wood wood (the Brinell hardness index is 2.49 kgf / mm2), while it does not differ in high viscosity and ductility, which makes it difficult to work on bending. Therefore, furniture most often has straight lines and laconic design, which is in harmony with the spirit and character of the wood itself.
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- The softness of wood causes another salient feature design and construction of furniture, namely its massiveness. Thin countertops and shelves are not able to support significant weight. Under the influence of their own weight, thin horizontal surfaces of a large area can gradually sag and deform under the influence of their own weight. That is why they are made thick.
- In view of such physical and aesthetic characteristics, despite the pliability of pine wood for processing, it is hardly possible to find elegant carvings on furniture. Thus, solid pine furniture is distinguished by its special style.
- The chemical properties are such that wood contains and releases into the air phytoncides that purify the air from harmful bacteria and viruses that strengthen the immune system. Pine furniture is especially recommended for dwellings where children and immunocompromised people live.
Pine furniture is suitable for various rooms: beds and wardrobes for bedrooms, tables, chairs, shelves for living rooms, as kitchen furniture or hallway furniture. However, when choosing furniture for rooms with specific conditions, special attention should be paid to the presence of special wood processing with special compounds that protect the wood structure from damage, deformation and decay.
Oak or pine?
Both pine and oak furniture are unique and inimitable in their own way. Pine allows you to enjoy the best charms of natural wood, while it is inexpensive. Oak is prestigious, elegant and durable.
Which option to opt for is up to you. We offer guaranteed quality furniture - both pine and oak. We are waiting for your calls, our online store is always at your service!
Modern technologies make it possible to use wood as a frame for windows, relieving them of all the negative indicators that created inconvenience. For this reason, any type of wood can be taken as the basis. The most used in our time are: oak, larch and pine. Each of these types has its pros and cons, which determines the scope of their application and popularity. But which option is better to give preference to? Let's look at everything in as much detail as possible.
Oak is deservedly called "heavy artillery" among the elite types of wood. In addition to the fact that it differs from all types of high density, it is also very attractive. Any windows with oak double-glazed windows are associated with very high reliability and practicality.
When deciding to give preference to oak windows, you can get reliability, durability and very high performance indicators of appearance. At the same time, this material is famous for its resistance to impact and damage. Thanks to modern treatment solutions, maximum fire safety can be achieved and wood damage by pests can be avoided. But, oak has disadvantages in the form of high weight and high cost. It is these characteristics that repel buyers.
Pine windows
Pine is the most common tree used in the woodworking industry. This type is affordable, cheap and has excellent durability. Aromatic resins that are inside the wood create an atmosphere of comfort in the house. But, they are also a big disadvantage. The thing is that the resins, when the wood is heated, begin to ooze from the cracks. It's pretty ugly. They are also flammable and even special substances do not protect against this property.
Larch windows
Larch is in popularity approximately in the middle - between oak and pine. It has all the main positive characteristics, as the previous versions, and at the same time it is devoid of disadvantages. But, larch has its drawback in the form of a change in geometric shape when dried. For this reason, it is best to make windows from it from glued pieces, and not from an array.
