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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 […]

What is Knotty Pine?

What is #2 Knotty Pine What is "Knotty pine"? Simple, it is a generic term for pine with knots, not a big surprise. What may surprise you, Knotty Pine is not a grade. #2 SYP is not a true grade and differs from mill to mill, i.e. floors or lumber. Lumber mills sort based on defects, knots included. But when a mill produces flooring, Heart Pine flooring, it is sorted based on the amount of [...]

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1×6 #2 Southern New Heart Pine

1x6 #2 Southern New Heart Pine First of all, a 1 x 6 #2 Southern New Heart Pine grade is very deceptive desription. It is neither 3/4 nor 6"; as for the #2 Southern New Heart Pine that might be the most deceptive of all because it is not a defected grade like lumber yard #2 Knotty. To find out more read Southern Yellow Pine is not a species and or What is Heartwood? Pictures [...]

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Rustic in eye of beholder

Rustic floors, or rustic by definition refers to simplicity, rural or country style. Rustic handwriting and lumber, but what about flooring? Do knots automatically indicated a “rustic” style or simplicity? The word comes from Latin Rusticus or Rus, “to be country”, or Shabby Chic as we call it today.

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Pictures #2 Southern Yellow Pine all customers of SYP Direct.

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Rustic Floors

Sometimes you feel like a knot sometimes you don’t. Rustic is in the eye of the beholder? I can keep going, please click.