What Wood Flooring is Best for Dogs?

When it comes to choosing the right flooring for your home, pet owners have a unique set of considerations. Dogs, in particular, can be tough on floors with their nails, potentially causing scratches and indentations. One key factor in selecting dog-friendly wood flooring is the Janka hardness scale, which measures the resistance of wood to …

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Wood of the Month: Ambrosia Maple (Wormy Maple)

Covered with unique patterns, Ambrosia Maple is the perfect wood for anyone who seeks one of a kind wood.
Covered with unique patterns, Ambrosia Maple is the perfect wood for anyone who seeks a one of a kind wood.

Ambrosia Maple is a highly coveted wood for many projects because of its very unique and colored patterns. A lot of people often wonder if Ambrosia Maple is a specific species of wood, or if some sort of chemicals were added to give it the interesting patterns. The truth is that Ambrosia maple isn’t a different species, its regular soft maple that has had small beetles called ambrosia beetles nesting in it which carry a certain type of fungus for food.

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