Wide Pine Flooring

pine flooring attributesWe are the premier manufacturer of wide pine flooring in the US. We provide you with a combination of options and features no one else can match. We are the only company offering up to 20″ wide boards, that are dried to 6-8% moisture content, and have an average board length of over 12′. In addition, each floor is made to order, to ensure that every board fits together perfectly.

If your goal is to create the classic pine floor look, we recommend buying a mixed width floor. Not only is it more appealing to the eye, it makes your rare wider planks stand out. It also stays true to the old New England style pine floors used for over 300 years, which utilized every part of the tree. Wide pine ­flooring of this quality and size cannot be mass produced. Because of this, we prepare all of our planks during the winter months. They are then stored until they need to be milled, order by order throughout the year. Normal lead time for a mixed width floor is 2-4 weeks. There are times when we sell out of certain sizes. This can occur around the end of fall of each year. When this happens, no more planks are available until we process more logs in the winter months. Please call to check current availability and to reserve your pine floor.

A very important step in our process for crafting a wide pine floor is kiln drying. Proper kiln drying is easily overlooked when purchasing a floor but really becomes apparent after a floor has been installed. Our floors are dried down to 6 to 8% moisture content, ensuring a long life with only minimal movement. Our drying process ensures that our boards are extremely stable which allows for our floors to be laid over radiant heating systems. Our floors have been successfully used in climates from the high and dry altitudes of Aspen to ocean side homes of Cape Cod without ever receiving a complaint about board movement or excessive shrinking. We take great care in keeping the planks at their driest while at our mill. We recommend that they be installed and sealed immediately after delivery. You DO NOT acclimate our floor. This is very different from how green or improperly dried planks would be handled. If you would like more information about installing pine flooring, Click here to download our installation guide.

Premium Pine FlooringPremium Grade
Our premium grade contains sound knots, proudly showing the history and character of the wood. This knotty pine flooring will provide your home with the classic look of pine. Because of these traits our customers have made our premium grade the most popular choice. We hold our floors to a higher standard. Our knotty pine does not follow the industry standard NELMA grading system, but instead exceeds its requirements to give you the best pine floor available. (Polyurethane finish shown in picture)

Select Pine FlooringSelect Grade
Our select grade is knot-free and is truly amazing. Less than 5% of our boards are considered to be select due to our rigorous grading standards. We are one of the only companies offering knot-free boards, and we make them in in the widest widths available. Finding a 20” wide 16’ long knot-free board is extremely rare and certainly sure to impress. (Tongue oil finish with a stain shown in picture)

pine flooring packagesWe have created three different width packages; Wide, Extra Wide, and Mammoth. When ordering the wide and extra wide package you will receive equal square footage amounts of each width. For example a 1500 square foot order of our extra wide would consist of 500 square feet of each width. Our mammoth package is shipped with 25% of the square footage being our famous 18” and 20” wide boards. The remainder of the order will be evenly divided between the 12”, 14” & 16”.

We also have the longest length planks in the industry. The majority of your order will be boards between 12 and 16 feet. Longer length planks means fewer seams in your floor. When you combine the width and length of our planks, our pine flooring can reduce the number of edge and butt seams in your floor by 80% or more, compared to a typical wood floor.

For easy installation, board thickness is set at industry standard 3/4″, unless a custom thickness is desired. Side profile options include tongue and groove, shiplap, and straight edge. Tongue & groove is our customers’ most popular choice by far. In part because it provides the most secure hold, since the pieces are fully interlocking. Your profile selection does not affect the price of your floor.

pine flooring profiles

old pine flooring

Eastern White pine is a soft wood. Over time impressions form a unique character adding warmth and beauty for generations to enjoy. This unique wear is part of a pine floor’s allure, and sets it apart from hardwoods. What’s important is knowing your floor will never wear out, and you can feel good knowing that while you stand on our floors, we stand behind them with our lifetime guarantee.

 

From the milling of our floors, we generate quite a lot of wood shavings. These shavings are bagged for the local farmers to use as bedding for their animals. Other extra wood is used for arts and crafts projects by locals residents.