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Natural Red Oak Stair Treads
(Hardwood Stair Tread: oak -a replacement
for carpeted steps)
Red oak stair treads are the
most common, but we also manufacture a White Oak Stair Tread
on request, a better match for imported Russian Flooring.
A natural oak stair tread, as with all of
our exotic hardwood steps, is guaranteed to be sanded to
a quality finish, bullnosed on the front edge, and the ends
finished according to your needs for simple and easy
installation. Our meticulous attention to fabricating treads
to fit your layout makes installation of these natural oak
stair treads, a simple walk in the park.
Red Oak Stair Treads are by
far the most common species sold. This is what you find
in the typical box store, obvious by its overall pinkish
tinge, and of course reading the label  .
White Oak can look very similar in grain,
but tends to have less of the typical pinky tinge common
in natural red oak stair treads. The overall tint tends
to lean more towards a gray, with white overtones if sap
wood is present. Thus it is difficult to stain a red oak
tread to match a stained white oak floor. White oak flooring
is becoming more common today as we see large quantities
being imported from the vast forests of Russia.
Thus know the type of oak you have and buy
the right oak steps to match. Ask your flooring supplier,
if you need help. Mirage only uses red oak for its line
of flooring.
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| Red Oak Stair Treads: Select
& Better Grade |
Oak Steps, particularly the red oak stair treads, as suggested
earlier, are our most common wood step- Oak, Select and Better
Grade, made with premium red oak from Central North America,
selected for colour, consistent with the typical Select &
Better grade of North American hardwood flooring.. It can
include both the linear and flame pattern grain.
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| Red Oak Stair Treads:
Rustic Grade |
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 We
do make discounted, oak stair treads that have much more color
and natural character then our selected grade. As with Mirage
flooring, this lower grade of oak steps rarely have knots,
same excellent quality of finish, but lot of colour variation.
A rustic red oak stair tread is designed to match the traditional
grade of Mirage
flooring as shown in the picture above.
Stair tread prices for the traditional grade is typically
about 10% less expensive... quality is identical, but
rustic appearance dictated by the variance in colour board
to board.
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| White Oak Stair Treads: Exclusive
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White oak stair treads will be somewhat colour variable. Although
colour shifts are not as drastic as the rustic grade, you
will get a range of colour from the whiter tones of the sap
wood to the darker gray tones of the heart stock. Often includes
fleck (cross section of cells) common in rift cut white oak.
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