What is Teak Wood Price ? Where to Buy Teak Wood ?

What is Teak Wood Price ?

as teak wood is one of the most precious and high-quality hardwood around the world and teak wood needs at least 50 years to grow from a small sapling to be a high tree, nowadays, teak wood is extremely expensive, compared to other hardwood species.

For example, oak wood is around 300USD -500 USD per cubic meter and pine wood is merely 50 USD -100 USD per cubic meter. On the other hand, teak wood price is nearly upto USD 2000-2500 per cubic meter.

In the aspect of wood flooring price, oak flooring probably is just around USD 30-35 USD/SQM, and birch flooring is not more than 25USD. To most of people, teak flooring price is very high, around USD 65/SQM - 75 USD/SQM for big flooring boards,like 600-1200x120x18mm; even for the small size,300-450x90x15mm,price is around USD 45-55/SQM.

However, in the aspect of quality, teak wood is worth this high price, as teak wood is over 100years of lifespan. Lots of teak flooring could be collected and re-processed and used as brand new, after the old buildings with dozens of year history needs re-decorated. In other words, choosing teak wood, means choosing a long history for yourself and your family.

Where to Buy Teak Wood ?

Where To Buy Teak Wood ?

There are lots of teak wood species, in the aspect of teak wood origin. In the aspect of quality, Teak wood from Thailand is the best one, but Teak wood logging is prohibited in Thailand. In the available teak wood sources, Teak from burma is the best quality. As China has strong connection with Burma, a large amount of teak wood are exported to China and would be manufactured as teak wood furnitures and teak parquet.

Among all different areas in China, People in Guangdong is pretty in favor of teak wood, especially teak solid wood as the flooring at home. As a result, more than 70% of teak wood from burma is processed and manufactured in Guangdong Province.

As a result, Guangdong in China has lots of teak wood sources, not only for teak wood boards only, but also teak wood flooring and teak wood furnitures. As the supply of teak wood is very big in Guangdong China, the price is very competitive and comparatively low, with high quality.

Chancelier Wood Flooring, located in Guangzhou,Guangdong China, has more than 10 years of experience in teak wood flooring production, and becomes of one of best teak parquet flooring manufacturers in China now. 

Teak Wood Flooring product series from Chancelier Flooring are as below

1 Solid teak flooring, for indoor use

2 Teak Shower flooring, for bathroom

3 Teak boat flooring, for outdoor use

4 Engineered teak flooring, for indoor use

Usually, Chancelier Flooring just provides teak flooring in A grade, standard size, especially for those solid teak flooring for housing, with size 400-1200x120x18mm, unfinished or prefinished. 

On the other hand, Chancelier Flooring could provide customerized teak flooring boards for outdoor use or bathroom, with unfinished surface.

We hope that we could be your reliable parter of teak flooring suppliers in China

Simple introduction of oak wood features

What is oak wood


Oak wood,with scientific name of quercus spp,is mostly growing the tropical zones of the Northern Earth， such as northern Americas, East Asia and East Europe.As China does not allow the logging of oak for commercial use, most of oak wood planks are imported from Russia, Europe and USA.



Oak wood density:750g/cm3

Oak wood hardness:1360psi




the features of oak hardwood:

1 heartwood of oak has huge difference in color with sapwood

heartwood is a little brown, between yellowish brown and dark brown;

oak sapwood is usually white color, with a little yellow;

2 oak wood has very clear wood annual rings, and very beautifule wood grain;

oak wood grain looks very mountains or sea waves, with small shooting rays of dark brown,

3 density and hardness is moderate high, compared with brazilian teak or ipe,

4 oak wood surface is very fine and smooth, and it is easy to get staining,




Usually, oak wood is divided in two two types: white oak wood and red oak wood. As white oak is not really white and red oak is not really red, it is very difficult for ordinary people to identify the difference of which oak and red oak.


The main difference in white oak and red oak is the application.

Red oak is mostly suitable for wood furnitures and wood doors,wood flooring;

White oak is usually suitble for wood barrel for wine,hardwood flooring.




the advantage of oak wood

1 oak wood has clear beautiful mountain wood grain, and the wood surface feels very fine and smooth;

2 is impelling toughness is very excellent, oak wood could be made into kinds of beautiful curving wood items ;

3 oak is very hard with high density, with good stability in dimension, thus it is very resistant against rotting and the lifetime of oak wood could be nearly a hundred years.

4 with its beauty in grain and high density,oak wood is a very good material for high end wood furnitures, both in european style and Chinese traditional style;

5 on account to its high hardness, oak wood is not easy to be sawn,sanded and processed like other wood, such as ash wood, elm wood.

6 oak wood is more and more precious now after the logging of oak wood in big amount in the recent 100 years.





The disadvantage of oak wood

1 there is very few amount of oak hardwood with high grades, most of the oak hardwood has big tree knots,cracks and color difference.

2 sapwood of oak is vulnerable to worms and borer;

3 oak wood, if not kiln drying properly, would shrink and get cracking very easily;

4 Oak wood, looks like ash wood or chestnut wood. It is difficult for people to identify oak wood, ash wood and chestnut wood.

Usually oak wood from France and Russia is top quality, with little knots, oak wood from USA is in the middle level, and european oak wood from european is of low grade, with lots of knots,cracks and color difference.

Durability of engineered wood flooring

Durability of engineered wood flooring

 by Chancelier Wood Flooring

  www.artparquet-woodflooring.com

what is engineered wood flooring

engineered wood flooring is made by wood top layer and plywood material. as the plywood structure is consisting of several layers of wood veneer pressed by high-power machines, engineered wood flooring is totally different from solid hardwood flooring, without one-direction of wood grain. in the aspect of shrinking & expanding with moisture, and the dimension stability, engineered flooring definitely has better performance than hardwood flooring. Besides, engineered wooden floors achieves the same impression of beauty for the wood grain as hardwood flooring, and it also provides same feeling of walking to people , as hardwood flooring.  

With same stability of laminate flooring and beauty of hardwood flooring, engineered wood flooring becomes more and more popular around the world now.

The factors to influence the durability of engineered wood flooring

Before we discuss the durability of engineered wood flooring, we need to know well the details of engineered wood flooring.

1 Wood species for the top layer 

With different wood species as top layer for engineered wood floors,  the hardness of engineered wood flooring will be very different, for example, birch is very soft and brazilian teak is almost the hardest wood, with janka hardness 1260psi and 3300psi. Birch engineered flooring thus feels much softer than brazilian teak engineered flooring. After several years, brazilian teak engineered flooring would look better and feel better than birch engineered flooring , as people walk on it with shoes for years.

as a result, wood species for engineered wooden floors is one of the factors to influence the durability of engineered wood flooring.

2 Quality of lacquer or oil for flooring coating

Most of the engineered wood floorings are pre-finished with UV lacquer or UV oil by the engineered wood flooring manufacturers. The quality of lacquer or oil coating is the most important factors to engineered flooring durability.

 If the quality of lacquer of oil is poor, the flooring coating will probably occur to these potential problem: 

   lacquer failure at parts of the flooring boards,

   lacquer cracking, 

   lacquer uneven surface, 

   lacquer de-bonding days after installation

With such lacquer problem, those engineered wood flooring undoubtedly needs reparing, or even are less any more.

On the other hand, with excellent lacquer quality, engineered wood flooring would be as good as new even after several years, without need for re-finishing for coating for 5-10 years.

3 Quality of plywood material

Plywood material has better stability in dimension than solid wood flooring, but the multi-layer plywood is made of several layers bonded by glue. So quality of plywood material and the glue quality for the plywood material would be the 2nd important factor to engineered flooring durability.

With installation on concrete flooring, the moisture in concrete flooring will have an effect on the back of engineered flooring year by year, although the concrete floor would be processed with waterproof treatment for wood flooring on top.

In some cold area, people will install engineered wood flooring above the under hearing system, which would be turned on in winter,then the floorings would be heated as well. The qualified plywood material for engineered wood flooring will not be glue de-bonding in such circumstances.

Those plywood materials which could pass the bonding strength testing ( soaking in boilding water for 2 hours),are qualified in such situation.

4 Good maintenance to the flooring

Although engineered wood flooring is new product with high technology,  its wood property still require people to use , maintain them as real hardwood flooring: 

   waxing every 6 months, 

   mopping without dipping water,

   no dragging for heavy articles on it,

   keep flooring and house as dry as possible

Without good maintenance, even the best quality engineered wood flooring will not have durable performance, and probably needs repairing several months after installation.

According to the above knowledge about the factors to durability of engineered wood flooring, we thus shall pay great attention to these factors before we make decisions during buying engineered wood flooring for our new houses.

How to choose engineered wood flooring

How to choose engineered wood flooring

by Chancelier Wood Flooring

1 choose the suitable type

  there are two types of engineered wood flooring, 3 layer engineered wood flooring & mutiply engineered wood flooring.

  Usually, mutiply engineered wood flooring have better performance in stability due to the structure of plywood base. On the other hand, 3 layer engineered wood flooring is comparatively cheaper and more environmental friendly.

  we should choose the most suitable type for us based on our situations, such as the weather, the moisture of local area,etc.

2  Choose the favorable wood species for top layer of engineered flooring

  engineered wood floorings are also named with the wood species of its top layer, such as oak engineered wood flooring, teak engineered wood flooring, Brazilian cherry engineered wood flooring, doussie engineered wood flooring, even rosewood engineered wood flooring.

  the wood species of flooring top layer is different, there is huge difference in price, wood color and wood grain for the different timber woods. those valuable and rare timber woods are very expensive, such as wenge wood, ebony,palo santos wood, rosewood, even teak wood and walnut wood.

  Before deciding the best engineered wood flooring for ourselves, we need to consider the wood color, the wood grain and the size of engineered flooring, and then finally figure out the price of the

favorable wood species to us.

3 Check the moisture content of engineered wood flooring

  the moisture content of engineered flooring is very critical to the stability of the flooring boards. We must keep an eye on this factor before determining the engineered flooring supplier for our homes: the moisture content of engineered flooring has to be from 8%-12%.

  If Moisture of flooring is higher than this rate, the flooring boards will definitely bend. 

4 Check the precision of process technic on the products

   We introduce a very simple way to check the flooring process technic, which would  present the supplier’s production quality control standard:

   To install the engineered flooring boards for around 10-15 pieces on the floor, then we could check these installed flooring boards with our eyes and hands: 

    whether these engineered wood floorings are all smooth without defect in lacquer;

    all the joints are smooth and connected well;

    all the bevels are clean and smooth between the joints;

below is the international standard for the flooring board details:

    the gap between two adjacent flooring boards is less than 0.15mm in average, 

    the height difference between two adjacent flooring boards is less than 0.10mm in average.

5 check the grade of top layer wood veneer

    the quality of wood veneer determines the grades of engineered wood flooring, such as A grade, AB grade, ABC grade, ABCD grade, CD grade and CDE grade.

    we need to figure out the supplier’s grading standard for wood veneer, as price is very different for its different grades, 

    firstly, we need to check if all the wood veneers of engineered floorings are of one wood species, such as burma teak engineered flooring is with burma teak wood lamella, not with indonesian teak lamell, or oak engineered flooring is with oak veneer, not with ash veneer;

    secodnly, we need to check the knots, the cracks in the wood veneer based on the grading we choose for our flooring, A grade is A grade, not including AB grade; ABC grade is ABC grade only, never including ABCD grade;

   thirdly, we also need to check the quality of UV lacquer on top, to make sure whether it is all smooth, clean and feels fine. There would be no crack, no small bubble , no dot in lacquer. 

  finally, we shall check if the wearing layer of UV lacquer is strong enough for scratching. this is a very important factor of the engineered wood flooring performance after installation. 

6 Choose the ECO engineered wood flooring 

The production of engineered wood flooring involves urea-formaldehyde resin. as a result, formaldehyde will be unavoidable in engineered flooring. As we know, formaldehyde is poisonous to human body if people absorb over amount of formaldehyde. If the content of formaldehyde is kept with a certain little amount in the air, people will not find any danger of this material to the bodies.

Based on the international standard for formaldehyde emission, the engineered wood flooring is qualified as ECO product or GREEN product with formaldehyde emission less than 1.5g/ML.

7 Check the bonding strength

The bonding strength is a very important quality indicator to the engineered wood flooring, having a  direct influence on the usage and lifespan of this product.

The bonding strength test is very easy:  put a small sample of engineered flooring into water and boil the water along with the sample  in 70℃ for 2 hours and check the plywood layer is still bonding together or debonding. Only those engineered flooring passing this boding strength test, are qualified products.

   We, Chancelier Wood Flooring,only use the qualified plywood with E1 grade as the material for our engineered wood flooring.