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

11 Dec

Historic Restorations

Finish and Install

Historic Restorations

If you are part of a historic restoration, please give us a call. Let us explain how ‘outsourcing’ the creation of your matching floor will save money, “a bunch of it”, but more than that it gives you creative control, 100%. Find out how. [/vc_message]

Historic Restorations might require 500 or 50,000 square feet Park Terrace, is an example of a very large job. One that was about getting the floor exactly right, requiring multiple drafts; and, no surprise the savings we provided landed us the job.

Historic Restorations are more common than ever

Historic Restorations, rehabilitation, and updating save some of our most amazing properties. Our first post looks at 3 organizations dedicated to preserving historic properties of all types. Mississippi. Louisiana and North Carolina, the states we will visit first; to the volunteers, board members and donors we say thank you. Thanks so much for keeping these amazing properties a part of their community and neighborhoods.

Restorations versus historic restorations

Restoration focuses on preserving and utilizing as much material as possible from the most significant point in the home’s history. Think of Restore versus rehabilitate as historically accurate restorations specific to a time period, versus simply “keeping the overall feel of a property”. Rehabilitation repairs the historic materials when possible but “new” materials are acceptable, i.e. matching an old floor.

Don’t pay for age, create it!

Faux Age

Mississippi Heritage 10 Most Endangered Historic Restoration sites

Preservation North Carolina

Preservation North Carolina is known as “the animal shelter for old houses,” awesome nickname derived from their mission. Factory mills, commercial buildings, schools, churches, general stores, and post office are all part of the Endangered Properties Program. Since inception this 4500-member strong organization has rescued over 800 historic properties.

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New Orleans Historic Districts

In Louisiana, the Preservation Reservation Resource Center of New Orleans has been the architect of some amazing historic restorations. “The PRC preserves New Orleans’ historic architecture, neighborhoods and cultural identity through collaboration, empowerment and service to our community.” PRCNO.org (2020). From the Garden District to Bourbon street without organizations such as the PRNCO we lose history.

Historic restorations properties available in NC from PRENC

Mississippi

Mississippi Heritage Trust: 10 most endangered

The Mississippi Heritage Trust list the ’10 Most Endangered Historic sites’, which offers us the chance to rescue history. Since 1992, the Mississippi Heritage Trust helps raised money and grants funding to projects all over the state. We love the larger project such as the Sun and Sand located in downtown Jackson, but the 10 most endangered historic sites list is just cool!

Save historic sites

What a great idea, allowing local residents to nominate those places less prominent, to others. The MHT may be the most important of any statewide organization, saving small towns and projects which otherwise would have vanished. For example, In Mississippi, these small rural projects have no private or municipal funding locally, MHT is the net.

Substituting for expensive reclaimed materials

Can Historic Restorations use substitute floors?

Substitutes are rarely accepted and never the first choice of an historic restoration, as they want accuracy. Homeowners desire to all thing ‘reclaimed’ created a thriving market. With this market came a huge range of prices. What defines the way these materials are marketed to the homeowner?

Do not pay too much

People pay $15.00 when $5.00 was fair, happens everyday. Don’t believe that could happen to you? In every picture at least one or all but one of the boards are reclaimed or salvaged, the other new.

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Historic restorations using reclaimed heart pine — Antique Reclaimed

Restoration projects in Virginia Prescott Construction — Antique Reclaimed

Visit our Pinterest Page for more Projects

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.

Finish to order custom new heart pine floors

06 Sep

1x8x12 Mill Run Heart Pine

Heart Pine

Price Increase as of April 15th

Still under $3.00

Inventory will be replaced April 21st

Affordable Heart Pine

How about 1×8 Heart Pine for only $2.75 per square foot? We currently have 8400 square feet available for pick up or shipping from Reidsville, NC, Premiere finishing and coating. Why do we keep the 1×8 Mill Run in NC? Simple, we offer a commercial finish. Yep, all 12′ lengths if you want them that way. Imagine a prefinished wide plank Heart Pine for under $7.00 a sq foot, affordable?

Solid Real Wood Value

1×8 Mill Run Heart Pine floors might be perfect for you, if you understand real wood grades. And more importantly, when purchasing the unfinished version, experience is necessary, it is long and requires planning. Unless you simply buy enough it to “learn as you go”, made possible by the low price. We do not suggest the latter and the 1×8 Mill Run Heart Pine requires only 10% waste just like any other grade.

Wide Plank New Heart Pine

Unfinished, tongue and groove with relief grooves; dual kiln dried, planned smooth with precison edges and ends. This brings us to the the grade, Mill Run. You will have some defects on edges, in knots and mainly some ends will be trimmed. But, for your trouble, a little planning you get a Heart Pine floor at an amazing price.

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.

25 Jul

Versus Clover Lea Pine

Misconceptions, Misdirections and Misinformation, Wood Floor Shopping

North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina finish to order Heart Pine

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

Historic Restorations

Historic Restorations

Historic Restorations are more common than ever

Restorations versus historic restorations

Don’t pay for age, create it!

Preservation North Carolina

New Orleans Historic Districts

Mississippi

Substituting for expensive reclaimed materials

North Carolina

Southern Pine Direct pick-up Reidsville North Carolina

North Carolina Pick up options

The Mercantile Antique Mall

Fumed Southern Pine

Fumed Southern Pine

Premiere Finishing and Coating

1x8x12 Mill Run Heart Pine

Price Increase as of April 15th

Still under $3.00

Affordable Heart Pine

Solid Real Wood Value

Wide Plank New Heart Pine

Rustic Floors

Do all rustic floors have knots?

Caribbean Heart Pine Rustic Grade

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

Rustic with Knots

Repairing Scars

Versus Clover Lea Pine

Clover Lea Prices

The difference in Clover Lea and SYP Direct

Alabama Pine

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