Antique 1800 Wood Floors

Most of our wood floors have interesting character marks such as nail holes peg mortises circle saw marks and beetle trails that are only truly available from reclaimed lumber.

Antique 1800 wood floors.

Most hardwood floors are installed with invisible nails and those that aren t are either old or intended to look old. If your old house boasts original plank strip or parquet wood floors giving them the proper care is the key to retaining their authenticity. Antique underfoot los angeles. 125 years later this coating was difficult to remove.

We provide antique flooring in a wide range of reclaimed wood varieties sizes and styles ranging from rustic to elegant. List of types ages of wood floors used in buildings warnings to wood floor restorers. The wood is highly resistant to wood boring insect attach and thus reclaimed black ash flooring has few bug holes. How to refinish floors with antique nail heads.

Reclaimed wood is often as old and full of character as the floors in a house two centuries old or perhaps more. It was used extensively through the black swamp to build the area farms once the land was drained in the mid 1800 s. Whether you ve been admiring your old wood floor for years or you just discovered it hidden under some old carpeting refinishing it can be a feast for. The properties of wood as well as its coatings change over time.

That s why attic boards are so valuable. Reclaimed antique wood flooring. Because of the trees age and massive diameter the desirable heartwood was extremely tight grained making the lumber harder and more durable than the relatively immature wood of the same species that is harvested today. The history of wood flooring begins in colonial america when the first floors were wide thick planks cut from the continent s abundant old growth forests.

Wood floors in the 1800 s 8 comments not too long ago as i was researching information on hardwood floors and finishes during the 1800 s in north america when i stumbled upon a great online library that had thousands of old books periodicals catalogues postcards brochures and photos amongst other cool things from that era. We offer flooring in both tongue and groove as well as plain wide plank. Saw marks were original on early floors but they wore off when people walked on them says dean brandt of sylvan brandt. A blast from the past.

Wideboard shiplap edged floors in an 1860 s house we restored in wappingers falls ny had been coated with a paint made of oxblood and milk.