As with our unfinished mill direct floors, our prefinished versions are manufactured just for your project. You can choose the species, grade, and finish which includes a host of other options including, Eco-friendly products, long lengths and wide planks.
3 1/4 inch (1 x4) Southern Pine, clear with infrequent pin knots, if any. Clear, or C and better with blue coloration of sapwood, you might also call it a fungus. Don’t worry the KILN takes care of any wet lumber, i.e., the blue occurs when a pine tree falls without harvest, i.e., outdoors. Available now, in North Carolina finish partner 2900 sq feet with finish plus a UV topcoat and color we deemed big muddy. These floors were part of a very large project in East Hartford, CT.
Prefinished wood floors require only installation whereas unfinished flooring must be site finished. Site finishing wood floors take so much more time and as we know, time is money. How many local flooring or remodeling contractors want to add labor cost? The public has been fed so much misinformation. In fact, many times the homeowner thinks engineered hardwoods are equal in quality to real wood floors.
Factory prefinished wood floors are characterized by width ( 5″ and 3 1/8″), micro bevels and UV coating. Furthermore, end matching or tongue and grooved ends are a bi-product of factory finished wood flooring. Why? Again, it is all about the length of the boards. Short random length boards are a puzzle requiring those ends be matched.
99% of Prefinished wood floors have either a 3 1/4 or 5 1/8 width. Sold in a range such as 2-7′ with average lengths from 36″ to just over 1ft. You know the stuff you see everywhere. 100 names for 10 colors! Why? Money of course! Manufactures, take the small cuts, defects, micro shorts of dimensional lumber mills and finish it for the masses. That means 1-7′ bundles with average length under 24″, no matter what they say at the store waste comes in higher than 10%.
At SYP direct you are buying our prefinished heart pine, using our unfinished version, as in all 12′ if requested. Another unique option with our prefinished Heart Pine, wider boards up to 8″, in fact. Imagine a wide plank prefinished heart pine floor in all 10′ and 12′ boards, what would that cost locally?Finally, long length boards are so rare today people think you spent 5 times your actual cost.
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