Vidar Flooring American White Oak 7" Reactive Engineered Hardwood

Most people choose engineered hardwood for the look and keep it for the stability, the part you only appreciate after a few Ontario winters.

In simple terms: Vidar Flooring American White Oak 7" Reactive is a real-wood floor, a layer of genuine white oak bonded to a stable engineered core. It looks and feels like solid hardwood, but the core lets it handle concrete, basements, and humidity that would move a solid plank. We carry it and our own crew installs it.

Decision line: with a thick wear layer, Vidar American White Oak 7" Reactive behaves like solid hardwood you can refinish, but goes in basements and over radiant heat where solid cannot. It is the choice when you want one floor to do both.

The detail behind that: It is real white oak, a cooler, more contemporary cast with a tighter grain than red oak, and a touch harder. White Oak sits around 1360 on the Janka hardness scale, right at the oak benchmark for everyday durability. It carries a 3mm dry-sawn wear layer, real sawn wood you can refinish like solid hardwood at least once over its life. The core is the quiet workhorse here. A multi-ply core resists the expansion and contraction that makes solid wood cup, gap, or lift. That is why it can go over in-floor radiant heat, places solid hardwood cannot. Planks run 7 inches wide, a wide-plank look that shows off the grain. A low-sheen matte finish keeps dust and footprints from showing. Micro-bevelled edges give each plank a defined line and absorb the seasonal movement of a wood floor. Colours in the range include Charlotte, Havana, and Santorini.

We install Vidar Flooring American White Oak 7" Reactive with our own team, not subcontractors, across the GTA, Barrie, and Simcoe County. The method depends on the subfloor, glued to concrete, floated, or nailed to plywood, and a flat, dry base matters more than anything. Read how we work on the hardwood installation page, or see our projects.

Wood reads differently across a full floor than in a sample chip, so it is worth seeing Vidar American White Oak 7" Reactive under room light at either store. Since it works over radiant heat, it goes well with the in-floor heating membranes we carry. Contact us to check availability, or browse the full hardwood flooring range. For the full Vidar Flooring range, see our Vidar Flooring page.