What about SYP Direct makes us so unique? Southern Yellow Pine Direct aka SYP Direct is the only true online pine flooring mill. Furthermore, our mill partnership (s) allows us to manufacture using custom specifications aka milled to specs or milled to order. Milled to order is really big deal. How so? Nothing is sitting around on a shelf waiting to be matched with another run, weeks later. Every board of your floor comes from the same timber which is milled all together creating a continuity important to the look and the ease of installation.
All about SYP Direct, the homeowners advocate
Southern Yellow Pine Direct is the homeowners’ resource for the best pine flooring on the market. However, we are so much more than just flooring. In fact, SYP Direct works with your contractor if you are purchasing your own materials. Do not get stuck with ‘bundled’ services, finish and installation does not have to include the floors. Why should you be held captive? To find out more about SYP Direct- contact us now.
The source you can trust
In 2014, we did something very different, we decided to target homeowners almost exclusively. Since making the change we have earned an A+ BBB rating and a reputation beyond reproach, we take care of every customer. Buying unfinished real wood is not like buying finished flooring, and certainly nothing like buying laminate or engineered floors. There is a direct correlation with how long the install process takes and how long the floor will last.
A+ Rated BBB
The reason for our A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau and all of our positive reviews is simple; we have never not once taken advantage of a customer. Never do we misrepresent our flooring, in fact educating our buyers is part of our day-to-day business. We are polite and operate with a transparency that shocks most first-time callers, “we seem too good to be true” has been said on many occasions. Buying real wood can be very expensive unless, you understand the components of getting that dream floor.
Here is just one recent example with a recent Arizona customer.
Trust means something, more everyday.
Buying solid wood usually means a site finish
Site finished pine flooring needs preparation. Preparing for the wood is an important step often overlooked, the preconditioning portion of the finish. When you have unfinished solid wood floors with character, i.e., knots, different grain patterns and variance in density you need a product that prevents splotchy finishes. It is not expensive, but vital. Min-wax, for example has an excellent product.
Sanding unfinished solid wood floors
“Do you have to sand prior to finish?” The short answer is no, but we always add, only if you want your floors to look their best. Sanding your unfinished floor prior to preconditioning allows for deeper penetration and better protection not to mention it raises the grain allowing the colors to pop free. Commonly known as popping the grain and accomplished by simply running a wet rag down the board as you pull them out of the pallet crate.
Mill to order makes install easy
Milled to order is not a marketing term for us, we do not mill inventory to sit on shelves and one day match with other inventory. By milling your Southern Yellow pine floors all together, on the same day from the same “trees” provides a consistent floor which goes together as it should. SYP Direct mills Alabama Longleaf Pine lumber into unfinished Knotty and Heart Pine flooring. We mill to order, for homeowners and builders, furthermore with no minimum order. We can customize your order in ways that save you time and money. Grades, widths, length (s) are just three of the ways our mill to order model benefits our customers. There is no other SYP Direct, we say yes to solid wood, every single time.
Stop leasing temporary floor covers
Leased flooring all has the same residual value, zero. The cost are monetary and to the environment. Our philosophy, One House, One Floor has at its core one absolute; there is never a reason to buy engineered floors unless you are a prison, state university or hospital. Real is better than fake, real wood is green and yes, the answer is yes you can glue down solid wood. Southern Yellow Pine Direct welcomes all of you homeowners told solid wood is too expensive or cannot be glued down. Welcome to a place where logic still exist, we tell the truth. For example, LVT is not waterproof, warranties are worthless, you can glue down solid wood and real wood is certainly more durable than single use leased covers.
