Old Growth Pine Flooring

Red hills short leaf pine flooring like all of our products is sustainably milled from old growth natural forests not planted pine tracts.

Old growth pine flooring. Fortunately old growth heart pine still exists as high quality timbers are reclaimed from turn of the century mill buildings warehouses and factories. As with our longleaf this results in a higher heart content and denser grain. I guess we were just born too late. All are continuous pieces of old growth pine.

Many of the trees from which it comes are over 150 years old. In the northeast wood species include eastern white pine hard red and yellow pine poplar oak and chestnut. If you ever pass through columbia south carolina and have your truck look. It needs regular sweeping and mopping to protect the finish.

Basically anything under the old growth banner will come from pre 1900 buildings or is harvested from fallen rivers. These magnificent floors were harvested from old growth trees whose tight dense grain gave the wood a longevity that woods harvested today can t match. A 100 year old tree won t have the same percentage of heartwood as a 400. If you see flooring marked as new growth it comes from younger trees and isn t true heart pine as it s not reached the antique stage.

If you want to refinish sanding pine floors is easier than sanding hardwood. Yet there are heart pine flooring products on the market today that are about 75 90 years old and are called old growth another forest service report recommends that most stands with virginia pine loblolly pitch pines and shortleaf pines that exceed 100 to 125 years with little human disturbance can be considered in the early stages. The church is well over 100 years old dan miller. 100 of our antique heart pine lumber sawn from reclaimed old growth pine timbers and decking.

American reclaimed wood floors has an option for every style. Whether it s the strength and texture of reclaimed wide plank white oak the classic refined look of old growth douglas fir or the antique beauty of long leaf heart pine we have a unique floor for the atmosphere that you want to create. When the finish gets dull you can restore it by a screen and recoat. Old growth short leaf.

This allows us to produce eastern white pine flooring in the widest planks available from 10 to 15 inches in width and up to 16 feet in length effectively matching the impressive boards milled from the old growth trees harvested in the pre revolutionary era. A man across the street from where i grew up had a wooden house with quartersawn pine flooring and 12 in wide german siding.