Exclusive and distinctive.
Next to the popular European oak flooring Heywood continues to offer a large variety of other wood species from all around the world. From Canada to Asia and from South America to Africa. A precious and exclusive niche market. Exceptional and distinctive types of wood, each with a unique structure and special colour tone. Often finished in natural tones to preserve the natural beauty of each species, but of course we also offer the possibilities of creating personal and bespoke finishings together.

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The natural rough expression of wood.
Typical for this collection is the raw and robust appearance. An extremely expressive oak floor, in which the structure of wood is optimally expressed. The surface is planed with chisels, making the floor extremely smooth in most places. However, there is always cross-grain in the wood. This cross-grain is pulled up by the chisels, and creates also rougher areas in the surface. By applying colour finishings, the rougher areas absorb the pigments in a different way than the smooth areas. The ultimate look of a natural wooden floor.

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Natural deformed and sawn surface.
Similar to the Shrunk collection, the structure of this lively and extra rustic oak collection is based on a naturally deformed and subtly brushed surface. Contrary to regular engineered flooring, lumber with a relative high humidity level is cut to wear layers, and then let to dry. This results in natural ‘shrunken’ surface undulations around the characteristic cracks, end-cracks and knots. The cross marks from bandsawing the wearlayers is maintained and forms an import feature of Knotting Hill flooring. Subsequently a selection of the knots and cracks are hand-scraped and partially filled to enhance the aged character of the floor.

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