Pine wood flooring is made from a soft wood type. There are many different pine trees all around the world and there are over 200 types of species in the pine family. Though there are many types of pine to choose from, yellow pine flooring has proven to be the floor choice of many people. The wood of a pine tree is tightly compact and hardens with time. An even more detailed section of the pine family is the several different types of sub-species of yellow pine genus. Longleaf yellow pine, loblolly yellow pine and slash yellow pine are just a few of the sub-species of the yellow pine family. Ridgeview Hardwoods is a dedicated lumber specialist, and is the distributor of high quality pine flooring materials.

Pine wood floors are known to be one of the most durable and easy to maintain types of floors on the market today. It's fairly cost efficient and long lasting. There are many styles and types of pine woods to choose from. Options can start with the type and species of wood you would like to use, then the design of the wood can be chosen by specifying the cut of the wood.

Quarter sawn and rifts sawn are two different types of cutting techniques used to implement different designs on the planks. You are also able to choose which part of the tree you want your wood planks to be from. For example heart pine flooring, is flooring constructed of a specific part of tree log. Heartwood is the dead part of the tree. It starts from the center out towards the sapwood. The center of the tree is where the heartwood is located.