Birch Stair Treads
White Birch is the closest species to white pine and country
living. It's colour varies from a deep reddy brown heart stock,
similar to an american black cherry, to a pale straw colour
that often gets confused with hard maple. With no UV protection
it will age to a richer darker version.
The lumber industry does not particularly select the lumber
based on colour as it does in the hard maple sector. Thus we
do when possible, try and create a colour match in line with
your requests, but birch hardwood steps typically do have both
the darker heart colours and the lighter sap wood. Let us know
what is your preference and we'll do what we can, but be prepaired
for some colour variation.
Often birch is used as a substitute in the kitchen cabinet
industry for a stained maple set of cabinets, because birch
is much easier to stain and the overall grain of the wood looks
almost identical.
We have on the odd occasion recommended this approach for
steps as well, BUT birch is significantly softer then maple,
especially in a horizontal, hard wear application. Thus, make
this choice with caution. Birch hardwood stairs will ding and
dent more significantly then its hard maple cousin. In an all
adult household this may not be significant.
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Birch stair treads can look much like their maple cousins,
but on the average have a much more golden overtone, and rarely
black streaks. They are typically mixed colour, between the
darker reddy tones of the heartwood and the lighter, pale
straw colour of the sapwood as suggested above..
Picture: Quarter Round Birch Stair
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