Heart Pine Flooring

Reclaimed heart pine floors improve with exposure to sunlight becoming richer in warmth and hue.

Heart pine flooring.

Timbers from the longleaf pine were used as a strong building material throughout the southeast and eastern seaboard in the 1800s earning a reputation as the wood that spawned the american industrial revolution. Unless you plan on installing engineered heart pine planks we highly recommend using a professional to install this style of flooring. Beams cut from 400 year old longleaf pines are recycled into antique heartwood pine flooring at our millworks in chatham county north carolina and. Heart pine flooring is unusual which means it can be difficult to install.

Heart pine flooring is a wood floor that is crafted with boards cut from the center or heart of longleaf yellow pine trees. We have most of the heart pine flooring available in width from 2 5 to 11 5 in a tongue and grove profile or butt joint profile. Award winning river recovered and reclaimed luxury antique wood flooring. The nation s finest heartwood pine floors begin here since 1982 we have been carefully reclaiming mighty timbers from eighteenth century industrial buildings that were destined for demolition.

It combines a unique look with an excellent functional character for floors of any kind of home. Multiple species including 200 year old heart pine and heart cypress. Heart pine is sometimes called longleaf pine southern yellow pine and yellow pine. Also called longleaf heart pine is the actual heartwood of the tree and typically these trees are 80 100 years old and provide the perfect mix of character and strength for an outstanding floor.

For face nailing installation we have available the square cut flooring nails that are made the same as the nails used over 100 years ago. You deserve only the best. Heart pine flooring is one of our best sellers. Depending on the quality of the boards you may have to deal with dozens of nails holes and typically have a higher waste as well.