Reclaimed Lumber - Wood
Reclaimed Lumber, Reclaimed Wood
Antique WoodOld reclaimed lumber, and reclaimed wood is often salvaged from large warehouses and buildings in cities. A growing trend is to recycle the antique wood from the old barns that are dotted across our American landscape. Many old barns are being saved. However, many are fast showing signs of disrepair.
Especially prized are the wide planks, massive recycled wood beams, and hand hewn beams which are often used as reclaimed wood in new home construction, remodeled homes, and commercial spaces. These old used wood beams come in sizes that are unmatched in today's lumber yards. Old recycled lumber is also a dry wood; it's much less likely to twist, warp or shrink.
What makes this recycled wood superior? The fact that It is genuinely old, as opposed to new wood attempting to look old. This aged exotic wood features deep, beautiful colors, and character features with rich patinas that can only be bestowed by time.
Much of our reclaimed lumber is remilled into individual boards for antique wood flooring, moldings, stairs and fine furniture. There is a growing demand for wide plank flooring and old antique lumber because of its superior characteristics, its appearance and engineering properties,
Consider the hardships of growing in an old-growth forest. A tree grown on a tree farm doesn't have to compete for space and light, and it will be harvested before it gets very old, so its growth rings will be widely spaced. But a tree that grew in an ancient forest had to compete with other trees, so it grew more slowly. That's why old-growth timber is strong and its rings are dense.
For thousands of years the forest and alluvial basins were undisturbed, allowing these stately trees to slowly grow to jumbo heights and massive diameters.
When the last of these majestic giants were felled and the big timber taken to the saw mills, it was the end of a special era in our country's history. The conditions that allowed them to grow slowly and develop their dense heart centers would never be present again. Old growth by its very nature, taking hundreds of years to mature, was not considered for replanting and is now replaced by faster growing varieties.
When this beautiful, tight grained, antique lumber is rescued, we not only conserve our nation's remaining invaluable stands of old growth timber, "we are indeed reclaiming a part of Americas past".
Getting this old rustic used wood cleaned and ready to market is a labor-intensive job, which is why reclaimed lumber is often more than the price of new wood.
Old-growth reclaimed wood, custom milled into antique wood flooring has an appealing patina and the character marks, vintage pigments and nail holes add to its personality.
Some of the most popular reclaimed woods are the oaks, particularly white oak because of its strength, stability and the beautiful antique patina it achieves over time. Reclaimed white oak flooring and hand hewn beams are favored by architects and designers building unique homes.
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