Why use ? Antique Heart Pine Flooring has a certain beauty and mystique that is sought after by many, for it’s rustic harm patina. With it’s amber hue’s and knotty naily character heart pine is a unique choice for any modern or cottage style home. Today many smart consumers in the market for a new floor are actually looking to buy an old floor, well it’s really not Old but more ECO-Friendly Reclaimed alternatives. So Why Use it?

ECO-Friendly Heart Pine

Using Reclaimed Antique Flooring in your home can help the environment by offering an alternative salvaged flooring re-sawn into tongue and groove wide plank floors. Cutting down trees to make flooring will impact our natural forests in the future while choosing a reclaimed alternative will cut out the middle man ( sorry for the pun ) and keep the logging down to a minimum. Helping the environment is a really good reason to use Antique Heart Pine for your next home project.

Custom Milling

Most Lumber Mills offer custom milling so they can offer wider widths and longer lengths than most flooring on the market. The average lengths can run anywhere from 12in to 16ft. They also offer wide planks from 2 1/4″ Wide up to 12″ depending on how wide the beam was. Usually a 5″ wide Heart Pine Plank is used for most residential installations. So you can really benefit from having a custom heart pine floor thats available in almost any dimension imaginable.

Cuts & Grading

Lumber Mills can also produce flooring to suit your visual liking. Lumber Mills can saw and cut the timber to create either character grade flooring with lots of knots or a vertical grain floor which has no knots and a cleaner look. Pine Flooring is graded by color and character mostly so when choosing a floor ask for a sample before you make a purchase to make sure your comfortable with the character and look for your home.

Durability

Reclaimed Flooring is actually harder than most other pine species found due to it’s aged and hardened past. Usually most Antique Pine is reclaimed from Old Cotton Mills, Warehouses and salvaged buildings that have been around since the early 19th century having been stored or holding up structures for over 100 years the pine sap and heartwood gets hard like resin over time then becomes even more durable then even before made into a Beam. So with that being said the older the beam the harder the heart pine flooring will be.

Affordable Flooring Option

Depending on availability, antique flooring can be really affordable compared to other flooring types. A lot of people in the market for a new floor think heart pine flooring will be to expensive for their home project bur Usually cottage grade or character grade flooring will be lower in price compared to most wood species and honestly suitable for most home installations. I would check market prices and shop around for the best quality and the lowest price available.

So really there are many good reasons to beautify your home with a Natural Hand Crafted Heart Pine Flooring that will last another lifetime.