SYP Direct sells White Oak solid hardwood flooring

28 May

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 to mountain with everything in between. One of our first big trips was to the Raleigh area where we visited our floor. (The Mercantile Antique Mall). Photo

Lye treatment

North Carolina finish to order Heart Pine

https://premierefinishingandcoating.com/Reidsville, North Carolina is the home of Premiere Finish & Coating. Please visit their site, the technology is state of the art. “If you can dream it, we can create it”. SYP Direct specializes in unfinished Southern Pine and Heart Pine, but our premium services include ‘finish to order’ flooring.

Our partnership with Premiere centers on finishing our authentic long gorgeous pine, with one caveat. We ship our unfinished pine from our mill in Alabama, sometimes we have floors waiting to be ‘finished to order’. That is a fancy way of saying, not sold yet; and or if the timing is right we can share a ride from Alabama for your pick up. Call us today to find out what we have in Reidsville. 1-888-286-2057

Premiere Finishing & Coating has expanded its capabilities in a significant way by installing two new production lines with enhanced finishing capacity for cabinetry, doors, frames, moldings, panels, and other mill-work.

North Carolina the best deal in Heart Pine- Bona Natural Traffic on 1 x 8 x 12 Mill Run Heart Pine

The photo below or of samples of our finished order bona natural traffic on our 1 x 8 mill run heart pine those floors are finished tongue in groove and left in all 12 foot boards quite unique and available for pickup in Reidsville North Carolina

Bona Traffic for commercial and residential along with Monocoat by Rubio are our two go to finish products. For more information send us an email requesting information about the process of ‘finish to order’, and or follow the links.

Mill Run Heart Pine finish to order Bona Traffic natural — Finish to order

31 Jan

North Carolina

Wood Floor Shopping

Southern Pine Direct pick-up Reidsville North Carolina

Premiere finishing in Reidsville North Carolina

North Carolina Pick up options

SYP Direct manufactures prefinished pine in Reidsville, North Carolina. Our partner, Premiere Finishing, has amazing cababilities including wide planks. So not only do we ship our unfinished pine all over NC, but we also manufacture our prefinished floors in the state. What does this mean for homeowners? You can pick up prefinished floors without any shipping cost, do it on your time and save big. Hardwoods, imports and exports, prefinished and unfinished and all of it available for SYP Direct customers.

The Mercantile Antique Mall

SYP Direct loves North Carolina, the Mercantile Antique Mall acts much like a showroom for our Longleaf Southern Pine with a lye treatment. North Carolina continues to rank in our top 5 states year after year. From the Mercantile Antique mall in Knightdale to Camp Carolina in Transylvania County NC loves authentic Longleaf Southern Pine. We have more than a dozen builders working with us in the state. One SYP Directs coolest floor resides in the Mercantile, 3800 square feet of lye treatment creating the perfect rustic environment.

Fumed Southern Pine

The Mercantile Antique Mall is a great story. The floor is our Longleaf pine 1 x 6 #2 grade “Knotty” finished with a Lye treatment, but the story began with us saving them from a box store. The owner called us from inside a box store (lumber liquidators) because they did not like the product. Wanting something better they found SYP Direct. We make a living selling authentic long length Longleaf Southern Yellow Pine, not scraps.

Fumed Southern Pine

Prefinished Southern Pine character grade new heart pine with antiqued or darkened edges

Premiere Finishing and Coating

The Mercantile Antique Mall is a great story. The floor is our 1 x 6 #2 grade “Knotty” finished with a Lye treatment, but the story began with us saving them from a box store. The owner called us from inside a NC box store (lumber liquidators) because they did not like the product. Wanting something better they found SYP Direct. We make a living selling authentic long length Longleaf Southern Yellow Pine, not scraps. Just ask the Mercantile, SYP Direct saved their floor and helped create the amazing look you see in the photos.

Milk Paint tung oil blend shown here with mineral spirits

16 Aug

Chattanooga TN Air B&B

Heart Pine

View On Airbnb2 Bedroom Loft on Chattanooga’s North Shore

Amazing Air B&B with SYP Direct Floors

The New York Times named Chattanooga one of the “Top 45 Places to go” in the World. And it’s no wonder. Tucked between the mountains of Southeast Tennessee, along the beautiful Tennessee River, Chattanooga is one of America’s most breathtaking cities.

Chattanooga Tennessee

Chattanooga has the reputation of being aggressively welcoming. And that “welcome to Chattanooga” is extended to everyone—no matter your faith, nationality, sexual orientation, or gender. (Chattanooga.gov)

More to come on this project.

Summertime flooring projects

This summer, SYP Direct has delivered floors to these amazing cities, Chattanooga TN, Eureka Springs AR, Madison MS, Charleston SC, Chapel Hill NC, Tyler Texas, East Hartford CT, Newport IN, Forestville, CA, and Gulf Shores Alabama. While these are not all the cool towns and enclaves to which we delivered this summer, but this gives you an idea of a normal month.

Wall Skin

We pursue homeowner equity not shareholder with a one house one floor philosophy.

If you look at our project in East Hartford which was over 50,000 square feet of prefinished flooring compared to our 800 square foot Gulf Shores AL jobs, they resemble each other extraordinarily little except for the fact that they both used solid wood. Our customers range from the “too rich” to the folks looking for the “best deal” and we love them both. Customer service brings referrals which are so valuable to a company that does not want any repeat customers unless they move or add on. One House One Floor, real wood will outlive your home and one day salvaged then turned into an accent wall.

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 […]

Knotty Southern Yellow Pine floors MI lake

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 […]

Antique Reclaimed Heart Pine with saw marks

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

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 [...]

Prefinished or Unfinished floors?

When you are deciding between prefinished or unfinished floors the first consideration should be your experience, or a trusted professional with the experience. Prefinished hardwood floors have had all the work done to them before they arrive in your home and are ready to be installed. In most cases this means sanded, stained, and finished with a UV aluminum oxide coating as a topcoat. On the other hand, unfinished boards require; acclimation, finish, drying time, […]

Made in America?

Made in America means real wood What is the made in USA rule? “Of course, it is made in American it came from Home Depot, and it says so in the name, American Walnut.!” But like many things (cars), this term is added to make you feel good about the purchase even though you wanted real wood. Terminology Made in America today means the finish with engineered floors and only boxes with anything else such […]

Say yes to pine walls

Southern Pine is perfect for walls using Ship-lap, V-Groove and tongue and groove.

Pressure Treated Southern Pine

Southern Pine has long been the preferred species for pressure treatment because of its unique cellular structure that permits deep, uniform penetration of preservatives. Porous defines the cellular structure of Southern Pine, which allows the species to handle changes better than most. Some 85% of all pressure-treated wood produced in the U.S. is Southern Pine. Southern Yellow Pine Direct offers treated dimensional lumber such as the 4 x 4 beams shown below. Contact Jason for […]

Local installers found for DIY customers

02 Jan

Rustic Floors

Knotty Pine

The best rustic floors are all about character and color, derived from knots

The word rustic, is subjective. It is Southern Pine with sap and heartwood, a 7″ wide plank mill run heart pine. We shipped our unfinished 12′ boards to our finish partner who created for us an amazing floor, just perfect really. Fawn, the finish name sits on top of our 3/4 x 7″ tongue and groove, ends matched including a micro bevel along all four sides. This floor offers, what I consider to be the common characteristic of gorgeous rustic flooring, color variations. Rustic Floors are how we define character

Do all rustic floors have knots?

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. All well and good but some may believe rustic indicates a lack of sophistication and style. We will argue that those two characteristics are not always one the same, simple is good. Want great recent example what rustic means in Colorado?

Caribbean Heart Pine Rustic Grade

Caribbean Heart Pine gives you the type of floor that creates envy, intended or otherwise. Every single person that comes into your home will complement the floor while having no idea what type of pine they are admiring. Perhaps one of the most desirable traits of Caribbean Heart Pine is that its natural beauty becomes more evident with time. As the wood ages, its patina emerges providing a palette of rich, vibrant colors ranging from yellows to vibrant reds and coppers that deepen and intensify with age. Want to see more pictures, Pinterest site.

“Sometimes you feel like a knot, sometimes you don’t”

NO, I will ‘knot’ apologize for that and if you do not get it, you are too young to remember! How about Not all Knots are created equal? No, the perfect example our #2 grade, aka Knotty Pine. Our #2 SYP does not indicate defect but rather a lack of heart pine. Remember not all Southern Pine is created equal, age and species matter.

Rustic with Knots

“Knots are not holes

“A few knots are ok, but”; the number of times we hear this or some version probably exceeds 50% of all callers. Rustic yes, but that does not mean huge knots all over every board, no. Of course, we get those of us that believe it is not the frequency but the stability of the knots that matter most. A knot is solid, not falling out or on the edge of board and never holes. However, notches or small holes a very different story. (see waste factor)

Repairing Scars

Repairing scars pays off

Repairing a knot with a notch missing, what we call a scar, is easy and looks amazing. Ok, with dozens of wood fillers on the market which one works best? Well, just like our customer service we prefer to go old school with sawdust. For information on the process check YouTube, but essentially you mix some adhesive with sawdust, fill and sand. If your floors have a color/stain, drop some of that into the mix but don’t give up unless you can see all the way through.