Unfinished Hickory Flooring

The Floors

Hickory is one of the most varied, useful, and economically significant trees in the forest. It is often associated with our pioneer past and retains its appeal even in modern times. Hickory Flooring species belong to the walnut family, which includes pecans and other nut-bearing trees. Numerous hickory species exist throughout eastern North America, including the Appalachians.
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Hickory flooring has been admired for quite some time for both its beauty and strength. True hickory flooring will have a certain uniformity while being lighter in color than the pecan hickory group. If finish natural, the heartwood is fairly white colored, with tinges of brown and sometimes red. The distinctive and numerous shades of brown inherent in a Hickory hardwood floor create remarkable contrasts that, along with its intricate grain patterns, are nothing short of spectacular.

Solid Hickory Hardwood Flooring

Hickory Unfinished

Flooring Grade: Select & Better

Bayou’s Unfinished Select & Better Hickory Flooring comes available in various widths ( 2, 3 ¼, 4, 5,6 ) with 1’ to 10’ standard lengths, unfinished 3/4” Solid Wood Flooring.

Hickory Unfinished

Flooring Grades: Character

Bayou’s Unfinished Character Hickory Flooring comes available in various widths ( 4, 5, 6, 7 ) with 2’ to 10’ standard lengths, unfinished 3/4” Solid Wood Flooring.

Hickory Unfinished

Flooring Grades: #2 Common

Bayou’s Unfinished #2 Common Hickory Flooring comes available in various widths ( 2¼, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ) with 1’ to 7’ standard lengths, unfinished 3/4” Solid Wood Flooring.

What is unfinished Hickory flooring?

Unfinished means a floor without a finish, i.e., direct from the mill not a factory finish where ends are matched, and bevels added. Hickory is one of the most varied, useful, and economically significant trees in the forest. It is often associated with our pioneer past and retains its appeal even in modern times. Hickory Flooring species belong to the walnut family, which includes pecans and other nut-bearing trees. Numerous hickory species exist throughout eastern North America, including the Appalachians.

What are the best stains for Hickory flooring?

As we know taste is subjective but most homeowners who want a Hickory floor do not cover up the unique color patterns, so some type of clear finish would be the best answer.

What grades of Hickory do you carry?

Bayou Rustic offers (direct when available) clear and rustic hickory, which indicates the existence of knots. The grades would be #1 and #2 common if Hickory were actually graded like White Oak.

Hickory Stats


The Tree
– A large tree with a massive trunk which reaches heights of 160-ft. Lives up to 350 years. Did you know Hickory is the hardest of all North American hardwoods?

The Lumber – Practically all hickories produce durable, resistant lumber, e.g., “tough as hickory.” Andrew Jackson’s warrior reputation, for example, earned him the nickname “Old Hickory”. Hickory lumber is sourced from 8 different types of Hickory trees. Four species called “true hickory” (shagbark, pignut, shellbark and mockernut) and four species of “pecan hickory” (bitternut, pecan, water hickory and nutmeg hickory).

Hickory does not handle moisture well, common with high density as hickory is one of the strongest native softwoods.

Janka Hardness: 1,820 pounds Color: Cream, brown, and white with streaks of tan. Photosensitivity: Limited Tangential Shrinkage: 8.9 % Radial Shrinkage: 4.9 % – Durability Rating: Excellent