Welcome to Southern Yellow Pine Direct please click on the pictures below for more information on that title. Finding us means that you waded through a few pages of search results. Our business is about homeowners getting a floor that will last forever, literally. Not a “life-time” warranty because that is just silly. We promise that if you buy our 3/4 solid Heart Pine that one day the floors will be the only thing left with any value, it will outlive your home when everything else ends up in landfill near your home.
Find out more! You do not have to accept fake floors, buy real wood from SYP Direct. Shipping nationwide while maintaining an A+ rating with BBB.
Southern Yellow Pine Direct flooring is the homeowner’s source for New Heart pine. We offer unlimited character with the best-selling rustic #2 “Knotty” Southern Yellow Pine. Or check out the Caribbean Heart Pine which may be the best value in real wood. SYP Direct is your local source no matter where you live. We deliver nationwide, even Hawaii as of 2019.
Repurpose real wood
Repurpose real wood – salvaged or reclaimed. We want everyone to repurpose real wood. With that in mind, please enjoy this video which cost us $75.00 six years ago, We are “thrifty” like most of our customers, but the content is good. Salvaged is ‘saved’, reclaimed is repurposed; and not the kind of repurposing we are talking about with our folk art. The video should clear it up and if you are shopping for reclaimed […]
Glue down Southern Pine
In reality, you can glue down Southern Pine in standard 3/4 thickness. No problem, you want to glue down Southern Pine you use Bostiks Best. It has a built in moisture barrier and is urethane based so that is allows movement like a nail. But today, in this blog glue down Southern Pine is 1/2 inch, with the long lengths up to 14′ an option. SYP Direct does not sell anything but real wood and […]
How to identify Heart Pine
Welcome to our blog post on how to identify heart pine. To be clear, we are talking about how to identify New Heart Pine. In this informative guide, we will provide you with valuable insights on recognizing heartwood, and in a broader context, ‘heart content’. Both of these are essential for those homeowners (installation professionals) looking for quality New Heart Pine. Quality is easy to define, with the end result being an installation and a […]
Baseball, Apple Pie and Southern Pine
It has to be real wood. Southern Pine, real wood, is the most Eco-friendly choice for your floor, period. The exceptions, of course, are endangered or illegal timber, but that is not relevant to our discussion. Our New Heart Pine is not farmed and take from private landowners. While our Yellow Pine is sourced from North Louisiana, farmed timber. That is great information but the reason the real wood is green? IT LAST FOREVER. In […]
North Carolina
In 2018 SYP Direct was named Houzz Hardwood flooring dealer of the year in South Carolina, but North Carolina was the #1 state for sales. In fact, the two Carolina’s have both been in our top 5 states by sales volume for 14 years in a row. The reasons are not all about style and taste because when are talking about North Carolina and ‘her’ sister to the south, the population varies dramatically from coastal […]
Shipping to California
Yes, we ship to California, Oregon and Washington State. Nationwide with A+ BBB rating.
Box Store Pine Floors
Box store pine floors are not as good as ours and they are more expensive. Let me repeat, apples to apples they way more expensive. And even their cheaper stuff is stupid expensive for what it is, or certainly what it is not. In world where laminate and hardwood are regularly used to market some floor cover, you might want to use a healthy skepticism when floor shopping. Rule number 1- or at least the […]
Dog Friendly
2024 Dog Friendly Floors Update Dog friendly floors are all about the finish. Of course, you will here that real wood is not good for big dogs or even dogs in general. This is simply not true, at all. However, before we talk about the finish, we should address the question of Southern Pine and if it is a dog friendly floor. There is so much confusion regarding pine because there are so many variations [...]