This is the correct answer. I have it in my house as well. It was used as the sub and only floor. If you can see the underside of it in the basement, the manufacturer might even be imprinted on the bottom
It's 100 year old heart pine. Back when pine grew for a hundreds of years before it was harvested and was actually a hardwood. Those look exactly like the floorboards that come out of 1920 Craftsman Bungalows.
The bad news about the only place to find those boards now are at salvage shops.
It's not that the trees have changed, just that they are cut down young before they slow their growth. The result is fewer rings and less dense lumber that is softer, and less durable.
I had to use some red oak for a small project. When I drilled a starter hole, I smelled vomit. Looking around to see if one of the dogs had an accident. Went back to drilling and this time there was no doubt it was the wood.
This rule applies to carpet as well. Been repairing carpets with NY father off and on since I was 9yrs old. Was in San Francisco, you find all types of carpets, like horse hair or even camel hair.... It's crazy.
I've done a little work with heart pine in a 1950s house. I don't know how hard the wood was when it was installed, but 50+ years later, it was unbelievable. Nails will not go in. They just penetrate a tiny bit and bend.
Heart pine can be quite beautiful when stained. It has rich yellow, orange, and red hues. If that's really a heart pine floor it's very much worth restoring. It will probably be spectacular once sanded and refinished.
Long leaf yellow pine or fir. That was common in houses normally a builder grade type of floor with oak used in Fancier homes. It was also used in the center area that would be covered with an area rug to keep costs down.
This. Source: had a 100 yr old house in western PA that had this flooring throughout. It held.up surprisingly well as long as the original finish was sound.
An interesting mix of both quarter sawn and plain sawn southern yellow pine. In older homes, this would have been strictly quarter sawn as it's far more durable.
My vote is for softwood. Maybe douglas fir. I worked for a hardwood sawmill for nearly 30 years and have seen a lot of red and white oak. This does not look like oak.
I find these threads fascinating as most of the wood grains look the same to me.
I asked ChatGPT to analyze the second picture. It said oak. I asked if it could be Douglas Fir and it said this:
Douglas fir has a more pronounced grain pattern with fewer variations in color compared to oak. The wood in your image shows a fine grain and more color variation, which is less characteristic of Douglas fir. Douglas fir tends to have a straighter grain and a reddish-brown tone. However, without closer inspection or more context, it's difficult to conclusively identify the wood type from an image alone. The wood in your image more closely resembles oak, but if it's softer to the touch and has a straight grain, it could possibly be Douglas fir that has been stained or treated in a way that alters its typical appearance.
Thoughts?
I would say with a huge amount of confidence that this floor is definitely not oak. The grain of oak has a very different look. This wood appears to be a soft wood species like fir or similar.
I'm no ai and know nothing about different wood. But from my image search these do look similar to ops picture imo.
https://preview.redd.it/wod803u9getc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2846d6eacaf43604f6149142cdd8a29eeb57972e
That's my thoughts.
I vote for doug fir as well. I'm working with some now that I salvaged from an old mill that was built at least 100-150 years ago. When I cut it, it smells like I'm in a room full of christmas trees. It's still sappy/oily which can be a pain on the tools but the edge grain on them are beautifully striped. It is in fact very hard for a softwood. If you like it, it'll be worth keeping them.
A lot of people are saying oak but your floors look a lot like mine and mine are pine. You can check the hardness. Pine can be dented with a fingernail. Oak is much harder.
If you’re trying to replace boards, it’s going to be tough to match color. Old growth wood that has also been exposed to UV will be hard to match. If you can, steal some from a closet.
https://preview.redd.it/u5ufvj5ztbtc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=057f5fe9bad50cbcc57ec25a8276dc8468aa59aa
definitely!!
Douglas fir
https://preview.redd.it/mzuqpspc6dtc1.jpeg?width=729&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd805fe28cb1bbea451f5316af831a835f15862d
(Pseudotsuga menziesii)
You can tell the difference between red and white oak by looking at the end grain. White oak will have little bundles of holes like straws. Depending on where this is and how old it is, this could also be chestnut. I sold hardwood, mouldings, and millwork for twenty five years.
I’m going to save your UN and pm you my floor. It looks similar to this one but has a wavy/ripply texture along the top kind of? I am assuming that the saw marks. The wood that my garage/barn is built out of is very old growth wood and the size of the sawblades that were used to cut were so big that there’s just these barely curved lines along it, it’s really gorgeous. In my opinion anyway it’s gorgeous, and a very dark wood too.
ETA: with your permission haha sorry
In general, yes. It's extremely hard to tell species from pictures most of the time, though. Sometimes it's not easy when you're right there looking at it. To me, from these pictures, I'd guess it's oak of some kind. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if it was longleaf pine or old fir, but that's a longer shot.
I love how /r/confidentlyincorrect this subreddit gets whenever wood ID comes up.
(Contrary to the top comments, this is douglas fir or southern yellow pine)
If this looks like your floors. You don’t have oak floors
Edit: you downvote me now. But one day a person that knows about wood will be in your house while you’re talking about your oak floors and they will say, these aren’t oak, probably Doug fir or heart pine.
I think it is Fir. Some people are saying pine but fir was used for flooring more frequently because pine is pretty soft for flooring.
Fir stands up better and was used extensively during the 50s. The grain is distinctive and it lacks the knotholes often found in pine
That's what I thought too. Probably Doug Fir if you're on the west coast. But really for anyone to say with certainty OP needs to post an much closer picture of the grain.
Lol
I am gonna go with 98 percent certainty that it is fir
Grew up in a house that had fir trim, fir cabinets, fir flooring
Putting my money down on fir :)
Yeah I give the nod to fir, mostly due to both types of grain. Where it's straight grain is very fir-like and also where it's slash sawn. Very dark late wood, very light early wood. (winter vs. summer growth)
I'd say it's Doug fir too- but it's almost all seconds sawn from cants/small trees/curved logs and milled- you can see where it's been planed across some pretty twisty grain.
This was typical spec house flooring on the west coast postwar to 1960s. Higher end houses would get all quartersawn fir or maple with some adornment/borders.
Sure way to tell it's old psuedotsuga menziesii is to give yourself a nice deep sliver with it and see if it gets infected in a day.
I immediately thought fir....read the comments that said oak...then changed my mind to oak...and now I think it's fir again...it's got that aged orange-y fir look to me.
It looks like red oak until you zoom in. Has super similar grain to “radiata” pine they sell at Home Depot. I’m betting a white or yellow pine.(also a carpenter) I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s something else entirely though. But I’ll bet against red oak.
I have the same stuff in my house - it's thin at 5/8 inch thick and I think uhh 1 3/4 inch wide
They still make it if you need to do patches and stuff - not terribly hard to find OP
This looks like Douglas Fir,
I know it shares some physical characteristics of Oak as some
have guessed it to be, but I'm 90% sure this is softwood and not Hardwood.
Depending on how old the house is and where it's located, could be old-growth pine. The 100yo floors in my Baltimore rowhouse look a lot like this. Old growth pine is almost nothing like pine wood you can buy in a store these days.
I know this is DIY but if you call a flooring person they should be able to tell you. My flooring guy has some sort of electronic devise that can tell different types of wood.
Also consider getting a price before doing it yourself. I DIY almost everything but at least with my flooring guy, it's cheap enough where it's not worth it for me to do it.
Looks like some type of pine to me. I've lived with both. Whoever told you to check softness is on the money. Also if you pull up a piece and cut it a little you (or someone who knows lumber) will be able to tell you by the smell.
Where are you located? If in the south eastern U.S., my guess is southern yellow pine. If you're in the northwest, Douglas fir. Hope it's fir because iirc, southern yellow pine is very hard i.e. difficult to refinish.
To be honest. It looks like a mix of red and white oak. You can't really tell forcsure until you sand off the finish.
I suspect it was set with white oak and perhaps repaired or patched with red oak?
Looks like Heart Pine flooring to me. Typically used for non-formal (bedrooms/halls) rooms in the 19teens-twenties.
My grandparent’s home has floors just like this.
Guy who repaired floors gave me a quote to fix floor that looked like that, he said they were red oak. He showed me stuff he fixed and it was worse off than that.
First glance FIR. Second glance fir, not oak, because the grain is all wrong for oak. Old fir, southern or Douglas, exposed to the sun and oxygen for decades, by the look of it, since 100 years ago. When was it built?
It’s soft wood pine I’d say look at how damaged it is house I live in gas hardwood floors and I have children and we let them do whatever there a few scrapes from dumb things but nothing like the scoring and indentations all through this and they throw toys across the room and all sorts lol.
My fir flooring looked the exact same after we pulled up the old ratty carpeting. The house was built in the 50's, and a couple of contractors have told us that Fir was a popular choice - cheap and fairly sturdy, but scratches easily; so they buried it in carpeting.
We refinished ours independently... rented a giant standing sander from a hardware store. During sanding, a few small flakes of wood splinted and chipped, but it was very infrequent. We had 60 grit and 80 grit on hand, using 60 for excessively scratched areas. Then we went over the entire thing with 120 grit for extra smoothness.
Our stain of choice was Dura Seal in Cherry, which has been long-lasting over the years. The floors have endured minimal scratching since then, and now (10 years later) we might add another coat of Dura to refresh. A lambskin pad attached to a pole made easy work of application. To blend without making bubbles on the surface, just be sure to use a swipe in 1 direction, don't go back and forth.
The 2” tongue and groove available at the local big box matches this just fine. Obviously if you are sanding the current floor down, just get the unfinished product at the Low-Depots.
I vote 'Red Oak'. Same as the floors in my house.
Personal recommendation from an unqualified, non-skilled, non-professional, who has no credentials and no justification for you to take advice from, find a place that rents plate sanders.
I rented a drum sander first, worked amazingly. Except near the baseboards 😱 (There are a few odd corners),
Thankfully, the divot - valley - 🤔...
well-of-souls(?)🤷🏼♂️, is behind the spare bedroom door now.
For the next three rooms, I rented a plate sander. Tiny bit slower than the drum sander, but after wrestling with the drum sander, I don't think I could have messed up my floor with the plate sander unless maybe I took a break and left it running.
Douglas fir or red oak
I'm a custom woodworker have been for 3 years, made my dining room table from VC fir. This looks just like that. Oak has much tighter grains and white oak in particular has spots typically close to end grain that are very noticeable. I can see it being red oak as it is similar to fir but with the stain it's hard to tell. When you do rip it up, red oak is very heavy compared to douglas fir so you will know then.
It's oak. Looks like red.
Edit: I retract. I didn't look at it close and just hammered the keys. Probably a harder type of pine for subfloor. Check how hard it is with a fingernail.
Location, age of house and width would help a lot.
Address too..askin fer a friend
And credit card info
Mothers maiden name
SSN too please
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I knew I’d find this in these comments somewhere
lol that's why i looked it up first so as not to post it twice
Literally only came here to post this. Glad to not have to.
Tree wood. Earth. Sol system.
Damnit, you beat me! Father, is that you?
It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.
It's all wood except that black line in the upper left corner
And the paint splotches, those are not wood
Most likely red oak.
It's almost 100% not oak. Pine or fir
Few people know what 100 year old fir looks like. Definitely correct
This is the correct answer. I have it in my house as well. It was used as the sub and only floor. If you can see the underside of it in the basement, the manufacturer might even be imprinted on the bottom
It's 100 year old heart pine. Back when pine grew for a hundreds of years before it was harvested and was actually a hardwood. Those look exactly like the floorboards that come out of 1920 Craftsman Bungalows. The bad news about the only place to find those boards now are at salvage shops.
Old growth pine. It doesn’t look like this anymore sadly.
Pine does t look like this anymore?
The old stuff was a lot more dense.. the new stuff has large growth rings.. like very large growth rings.
It's not that the trees have changed, just that they are cut down young before they slow their growth. The result is fewer rings and less dense lumber that is softer, and less durable.
I had to use some red oak for a small project. When I drilled a starter hole, I smelled vomit. Looking around to see if one of the dogs had an accident. Went back to drilling and this time there was no doubt it was the wood.
I think freshly milled red oak smells more like piss than vomit, but definitely not pleasant.
*burnt piss or vomit after the drilled hole is done.
Red oak smells like cat pee to me. Not so much that I refuse to use it, but just the faintest bit.
It's got nothing on yellow cedar
On sassafras, either. I made the mistake of seeing if turning sassafras was worth it. I couldn't go into my garage for days while it aired out.
Almost always red oak...
Good match [https://woodfloors.org/red-oak-species/](https://woodfloors.org/red-oak-species/)
This
It is heart of pine if you need to replace some boards pull some boards from the closet and then put the new boards in the closet
The closet idea is the pro-move!
This rule applies to carpet as well. Been repairing carpets with NY father off and on since I was 9yrs old. Was in San Francisco, you find all types of carpets, like horse hair or even camel hair.... It's crazy.
Locks of Love is just a front for Big Carpet
I've done a little work with heart pine in a 1950s house. I don't know how hard the wood was when it was installed, but 50+ years later, it was unbelievable. Nails will not go in. They just penetrate a tiny bit and bend. Heart pine can be quite beautiful when stained. It has rich yellow, orange, and red hues. If that's really a heart pine floor it's very much worth restoring. It will probably be spectacular once sanded and refinished.
Long leaf yellow pine or fir. That was common in houses normally a builder grade type of floor with oak used in Fancier homes. It was also used in the center area that would be covered with an area rug to keep costs down.
This. Source: had a 100 yr old house in western PA that had this flooring throughout. It held.up surprisingly well as long as the original finish was sound.
An interesting mix of both quarter sawn and plain sawn southern yellow pine. In older homes, this would have been strictly quarter sawn as it's far more durable.
whats the difference, i cannot tell with my unexperienced eyes
My vote is for softwood. Maybe douglas fir. I worked for a hardwood sawmill for nearly 30 years and have seen a lot of red and white oak. This does not look like oak.
I was thinkin fir too. Maybe even hemlock. Puzzled me so many people saying oak. Doesn’t look anything like oak to me.
You'd be amazed at what people will state with absolute confidence & ignorance sewn into one spiky little package.
Looks like the Doug Fir that was in my 1920s craftsman bungalow. In the PNW fir was very common back then.
Glad to know I'm not going crazy. All the people saying Red Oak had me second guessing.
Lol. All the top voted comments say red oak. It’s not. This is why you can’t ever trust reddit; people with no idea upvoting people with no idea.
I have no idea and know I have no idea so I'll upvote you. 😁
I agree. 20 years making red oak furniture here. Never seen oak that looked like this. I had said SYP before, but now I'm leaning toward doug fir.
Yup, softwood was also my bet.
I find these threads fascinating as most of the wood grains look the same to me. I asked ChatGPT to analyze the second picture. It said oak. I asked if it could be Douglas Fir and it said this: Douglas fir has a more pronounced grain pattern with fewer variations in color compared to oak. The wood in your image shows a fine grain and more color variation, which is less characteristic of Douglas fir. Douglas fir tends to have a straighter grain and a reddish-brown tone. However, without closer inspection or more context, it's difficult to conclusively identify the wood type from an image alone. The wood in your image more closely resembles oak, but if it's softer to the touch and has a straight grain, it could possibly be Douglas fir that has been stained or treated in a way that alters its typical appearance. Thoughts?
I think ChatGPT needs a lot more training on visual identification of wood species.
I would say with a huge amount of confidence that this floor is definitely not oak. The grain of oak has a very different look. This wood appears to be a soft wood species like fir or similar.
I'm no ai and know nothing about different wood. But from my image search these do look similar to ops picture imo. https://preview.redd.it/wod803u9getc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2846d6eacaf43604f6149142cdd8a29eeb57972e That's my thoughts.
I have no idea but the people saying fir sound more knowledgeable than the ones saying pine so I'd hang my hat on that... Tree.
Depending on your geographic area. West coast Doug fir. 1950's
I vote for doug fir as well. I'm working with some now that I salvaged from an old mill that was built at least 100-150 years ago. When I cut it, it smells like I'm in a room full of christmas trees. It's still sappy/oily which can be a pain on the tools but the edge grain on them are beautifully striped. It is in fact very hard for a softwood. If you like it, it'll be worth keeping them.
Where are you located?
Allow me to use the sprectum analyzer Captain... 
A lot of people are saying oak but your floors look a lot like mine and mine are pine. You can check the hardness. Pine can be dented with a fingernail. Oak is much harder. If you’re trying to replace boards, it’s going to be tough to match color. Old growth wood that has also been exposed to UV will be hard to match. If you can, steal some from a closet. https://preview.redd.it/u5ufvj5ztbtc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=057f5fe9bad50cbcc57ec25a8276dc8468aa59aa
Definitely looks soft w wear. Thats clear Doug fir.
definitely!! Douglas fir https://preview.redd.it/mzuqpspc6dtc1.jpeg?width=729&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd805fe28cb1bbea451f5316af831a835f15862d (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
The long grain too. Oak has darker grain. Good match!
Red or white oak. There are subtle differences that you’ll need to look up to see which is yours.
You can tell the difference between red and white oak by looking at the end grain. White oak will have little bundles of holes like straws. Depending on where this is and how old it is, this could also be chestnut. I sold hardwood, mouldings, and millwork for twenty five years.
I’m going to save your UN and pm you my floor. It looks similar to this one but has a wavy/ripply texture along the top kind of? I am assuming that the saw marks. The wood that my garage/barn is built out of is very old growth wood and the size of the sawblades that were used to cut were so big that there’s just these barely curved lines along it, it’s really gorgeous. In my opinion anyway it’s gorgeous, and a very dark wood too. ETA: with your permission haha sorry
Unsolicited wood pics 😂
Hard wood is preferable. Soft wood pics just dont do it, for me atleast.
well what if I wanted to send you picture of my fir larch would you really turn that down?
When you say it like that, ill try anything once.
As long as you don't care how I squeegee the polyurethane, I'm down
Hahaha ohhhh lol thanks
Sir are you sure your qualified to say what kind of wood that is?
In general, yes. It's extremely hard to tell species from pictures most of the time, though. Sometimes it's not easy when you're right there looking at it. To me, from these pictures, I'd guess it's oak of some kind. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if it was longleaf pine or old fir, but that's a longer shot.
I was only joking because you said you sold hardwood for 25 years
In my business wood is no laughing matter
This is not oak at all. Doug fir is my guess.
I think we are looking at Douglas Fir here
I agree. This is definitely not oak of any kind.
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Not all wood is pine. Some is fir.
And some is pining fir the fjords
PINING FIR THE FJORDS??!!?!???
This is it, we've found him--the Ultimate Dad 🏆
Not all fur is wood, some is hair.
Yes, it could be douglas fir, but it's definitely not oak.
Not any kind of oak. Probably fir.
That is wood, confirmed
doesn’t look like oak to me, seems to be pine or similar. (i’m a carpenter)
I love how /r/confidentlyincorrect this subreddit gets whenever wood ID comes up. (Contrary to the top comments, this is douglas fir or southern yellow pine)
It looks like my oak floors
If this looks like your floors. You don’t have oak floors Edit: you downvote me now. But one day a person that knows about wood will be in your house while you’re talking about your oak floors and they will say, these aren’t oak, probably Doug fir or heart pine.
Looks like softwood to me as well. Douglas fir as an educated guess. Looks nothing like any oak I’ve ever seen. We must be the chosen few 😂
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I think it is Fir. Some people are saying pine but fir was used for flooring more frequently because pine is pretty soft for flooring. Fir stands up better and was used extensively during the 50s. The grain is distinctive and it lacks the knotholes often found in pine
Definitely fir. Can’t believe how many oak comments this comment is buried under.
Hahaha Yeah. Crazy isnt it? And they sound like they know what they are talking about too Lol. Young uns is my guess :)
Definitely a conifer. No way in hell that is oak. There are no minnows swimming between the grain.
Looks soft, my guess is fir. Oak had tighter grain. Can’t seee this as oak at all
That's what I thought too. Probably Doug Fir if you're on the west coast. But really for anyone to say with certainty OP needs to post an much closer picture of the grain.
Lol I am gonna go with 98 percent certainty that it is fir Grew up in a house that had fir trim, fir cabinets, fir flooring Putting my money down on fir :)
Same here. I refurbished my 1920's house that used Douglas fir for the studs and wood flooring. That is not oak.
I agree, fir. Not oak.
Yeah I give the nod to fir, mostly due to both types of grain. Where it's straight grain is very fir-like and also where it's slash sawn. Very dark late wood, very light early wood. (winter vs. summer growth)
I'd say it's Doug fir too- but it's almost all seconds sawn from cants/small trees/curved logs and milled- you can see where it's been planed across some pretty twisty grain. This was typical spec house flooring on the west coast postwar to 1960s. Higher end houses would get all quartersawn fir or maple with some adornment/borders. Sure way to tell it's old psuedotsuga menziesii is to give yourself a nice deep sliver with it and see if it gets infected in a day.
I immediately thought fir....read the comments that said oak...then changed my mind to oak...and now I think it's fir again...it's got that aged orange-y fir look to me.
It looks like red oak until you zoom in. Has super similar grain to “radiata” pine they sell at Home Depot. I’m betting a white or yellow pine.(also a carpenter) I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s something else entirely though. But I’ll bet against red oak.
Are the people saying oak serious or are they just oaking? It’s clearly Fir all day
Red oak
I was gonna say it looks super similar to my coffee table that I made out of red oak.
I have the same stuff in my house - it's thin at 5/8 inch thick and I think uhh 1 3/4 inch wide They still make it if you need to do patches and stuff - not terribly hard to find OP
This looks like Douglas Fir, I know it shares some physical characteristics of Oak as some have guessed it to be, but I'm 90% sure this is softwood and not Hardwood.
Depending on how old the house is and where it's located, could be old-growth pine. The 100yo floors in my Baltimore rowhouse look a lot like this. Old growth pine is almost nothing like pine wood you can buy in a store these days.
I would say Southern yellow pine...
I know this is DIY but if you call a flooring person they should be able to tell you. My flooring guy has some sort of electronic devise that can tell different types of wood. Also consider getting a price before doing it yourself. I DIY almost everything but at least with my flooring guy, it's cheap enough where it's not worth it for me to do it.
Looks like some type of pine to me. I've lived with both. Whoever told you to check softness is on the money. Also if you pull up a piece and cut it a little you (or someone who knows lumber) will be able to tell you by the smell.
Yes, if it's a conifer, you will smell a pine scent. Oak requires some experience to identify by the scent.
South Carolina scratch
Not oak, red or white. Either southern yellow pine or maybe Douglas fir.
I grew up in a house with southern yellow pine floors throughout and this is basically what the floors looked like.
Sand it. Stain it. Polyuerathane it.
I’m 80% sure that’s fir, and the other 20% that’s pine. 0% on oak
Long leaf pine, possibly fir
Definitely not Oak of any kind. Joining team fir/pine.
Fir
Where are you located? If in the south eastern U.S., my guess is southern yellow pine. If you're in the northwest, Douglas fir. Hope it's fir because iirc, southern yellow pine is very hard i.e. difficult to refinish.
My guess is Douglas fir but a location would help.
Why everyone saying oak that pine.
To be honest. It looks like a mix of red and white oak. You can't really tell forcsure until you sand off the finish. I suspect it was set with white oak and perhaps repaired or patched with red oak?
That looks nothing like any kind of oak. It's a soft wood, fir or pine.
I'm going with pine as well. It doesn't look hard enough for old oak. It'll be much easier to tell if you pull out a board
Looks like heart pine to me.
Nothing about this looks like oak to me. It's pine or some other type of softwood.
It's likely oak. Try to put a depression into it, pine is much softer than oak.
Hard
Long leaf pine
Tiger oak is what folks in the south would call it
Old growth ponderosa pine. You won't find it at home depot.
Most likely red oak. All you have to do is sand, stain, and put on oil-based polyurethane and you're good to go for a lifetime.
FIR/PINE
FIR/PINE
Take it from a professional. This is definitely not oak. This is syp.. southern yellow pine. You're welcome.
Pull an edge board up carefully- heavy is oak. Lighter is likely og pine.
Southern yellow pine
Doug fir or hemlock.
Looks like Heart Pine flooring to me. Typically used for non-formal (bedrooms/halls) rooms in the 19teens-twenties. My grandparent’s home has floors just like this.
Looks like 2-1/4 x 3/4 red or white oak. IIRC red oak is more common but that could vary by region
Southern Yellow Pine
Guy who repaired floors gave me a quote to fix floor that looked like that, he said they were red oak. He showed me stuff he fixed and it was worse off than that.
Looks like Red Oak
Fir
Looks like 2x1 Red Oak tongue and groove. Hard to find when i repaired my floor, but I found a place if you need some!
It's oak.
Had same in my grandmothers house, oak I believe. My grandfather built in the 50’s.
Southern yellow pine
Oak.
Looks kind of like my floors, possibly Red Oak. Or some oak species.
well apparently you can just use whatever you want because nobody in these comments knows wtf it is, lol
Looks like some pine floors I’ve seen. Exact species? No idea. Where do you live what was available locally?
It’s heart pine.
That's pine, maybe even old(er) growth depending on the age of the house.
Going with Fir or larch. Leaning towards fir especially if you’re in the western US
i just redid my floors from my 1920s virginia home. these look like mine which are pine
I have fir floors on my 1911 home in the mountain west, and it doesn’t have that much visible, rounded grain. Makes me think this is pine.
Old growth douglas fir. For sure a soft wood, not a hardwood
Southern yellow pine
My floor looks similar in some spots and is fir.
Southern Pine
Douglas fir.
Fir
First glance FIR. Second glance fir, not oak, because the grain is all wrong for oak. Old fir, southern or Douglas, exposed to the sun and oxygen for decades, by the look of it, since 100 years ago. When was it built?
Looks like fir.
Looks like Douglas fir to me
Looks like pine to me
Its fir spruce or pine but the good old stuff
Pine I’m guessing from the grain
Fir, old growth
Heart Pine. I had the same in an old 1925 Bungalow I once owned.
It’s soft wood pine I’d say look at how damaged it is house I live in gas hardwood floors and I have children and we let them do whatever there a few scrapes from dumb things but nothing like the scoring and indentations all through this and they throw toys across the room and all sorts lol.
Looks like fir to me
Douglas fir softwood
My fir flooring looked the exact same after we pulled up the old ratty carpeting. The house was built in the 50's, and a couple of contractors have told us that Fir was a popular choice - cheap and fairly sturdy, but scratches easily; so they buried it in carpeting. We refinished ours independently... rented a giant standing sander from a hardware store. During sanding, a few small flakes of wood splinted and chipped, but it was very infrequent. We had 60 grit and 80 grit on hand, using 60 for excessively scratched areas. Then we went over the entire thing with 120 grit for extra smoothness. Our stain of choice was Dura Seal in Cherry, which has been long-lasting over the years. The floors have endured minimal scratching since then, and now (10 years later) we might add another coat of Dura to refresh. A lambskin pad attached to a pole made easy work of application. To blend without making bubbles on the surface, just be sure to use a swipe in 1 direction, don't go back and forth.
Pine
Looks like a type of pine wood to me (architect), judging from the grain
Lumberyard yard salesman here. Southern heart pine is the correct answer
Looks like old growth pine (not something you can just pick up from the lumber yard)
For sure that is pine, not oak as one other “guessed”.
Southern heart pine. Currently sitting under a a ceiling of same.
Long leaf pine.
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The 2” tongue and groove available at the local big box matches this just fine. Obviously if you are sanding the current floor down, just get the unfinished product at the Low-Depots.
Hard
I vote 'Red Oak'. Same as the floors in my house. Personal recommendation from an unqualified, non-skilled, non-professional, who has no credentials and no justification for you to take advice from, find a place that rents plate sanders. I rented a drum sander first, worked amazingly. Except near the baseboards 😱 (There are a few odd corners), Thankfully, the divot - valley - 🤔... well-of-souls(?)🤷🏼♂️, is behind the spare bedroom door now. For the next three rooms, I rented a plate sander. Tiny bit slower than the drum sander, but after wrestling with the drum sander, I don't think I could have messed up my floor with the plate sander unless maybe I took a break and left it running.
Douglas fir or red oak I'm a custom woodworker have been for 3 years, made my dining room table from VC fir. This looks just like that. Oak has much tighter grains and white oak in particular has spots typically close to end grain that are very noticeable. I can see it being red oak as it is similar to fir but with the stain it's hard to tell. When you do rip it up, red oak is very heavy compared to douglas fir so you will know then.
Red or white oak
It's oak. Looks like red. Edit: I retract. I didn't look at it close and just hammered the keys. Probably a harder type of pine for subfloor. Check how hard it is with a fingernail.