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02 Mar

Maryland

Wood Floor Shopping

Maryland and Southern Yellow Pine Direct have been a perfect match since 2014 when we launched the Online Mill concept. The state understands the versatility of Southern Pine, from the beach styles to very early American, the classic pine, MD seems to “get it”.  Of course our Beach floors are popular, but 3 to 5″ Heart Pine remains the favorite. SYP Direct markets directly to residents using our network of installers and Do It Yourself clients all over the state.

Maryland customer #2 Southern Knotty Pine wide planksAbout Maryland

Maryland is a Mid-Atlantic state that is defined by its abundant waterways and coastlines on the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean. Its largest city, Baltimore, has a long history as a major seaport. Sixteen of Maryland’s twenty-three counties, as well as the city of Baltimore, border the tidal waters of the Chesapeake Bay. MD has a combined total more than 4,000 miles of shoreline making it a perfect state for Coastal or Beach Style floors.

Beach & Coastal Floors

Are Chesapeake Coastal floors different from most, are they Whitewashed? When you step into a house on a MD beach, you immediately know you are in a whole different world, whitewashed or otherwise. The rooms are open and airy, the furniture is casual. Colors may be pastels or lighter colors and distressed for age.

Local Source for Pine

Maryland consistently ranks in our top 10 by state when measuring total sales. As we say,  we are the best local source for pine no matter where your zip code. Of course SYP Direct is not local to MD the way Crab cakes or the Ravens. On the contrary, we are your best source for the best pine at the best prices. In fact, Longleaf pine, the slower growing version which gives us New Heart Pine, is not found locally in commercially viable stands. All the pine grown today is the faster growing Loblolly species, great for construction but lacks the colors and character of trees three times their age.

More about SYP Direct

Southern Yellow Pine Direct is the only A+ rated mill to order online flooring store.  Our company wants to add value to your home with a forever floor, not a floor cover! Southern Yellow Pine Direct is the homeowner’s resource for the best pine flooring on the market. However, we are so much more than just flooring. Custom stairs, lap siding, gap siding, post, and beams, shipped directly to your job site. SYP Direct works with your contractor if you are simply purchasing your own materials. Do not get stuck with ‘bundled’ services, finish and installation does not have to include the floors. Say no to bundled services, contract your own floors. SYP Direct provides all the support you need to convince or find a new installer.

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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)

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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.

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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.

Chattanooga TN Air B&B

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 […]

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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 […]

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How to identify Heart Pine

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 […]

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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 […]

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SYP Direct sells White Oak solid hardwood flooring

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 […]

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Chattanooga TN Air B&B

Shipping to California

Yes, we ship to California, Oregon and Washington State. Nationwide with A+ BBB rating.

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Box store pine floors are short and this are 14 feet long

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 […]

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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 [...]

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Chattanooga TN Air B&B

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, […]

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Made in America?

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 […]

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Say yes to pine walls

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

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Chattanooga TN Air B&B

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 […]

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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.

 

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07 Aug

South Carolina

Wood Floor Shopping

South Carolina Pine Floors

Since 2014, SYP Direct claims the source for local South Carolina pine floors. Charleston, Hilton Head, Myrtle Beach, Columbia, Mount Pleasant, Summerville, Rock Hill, and Greenville have multiple projects. In fact, Mount Pleasant had 5 one summer. South Carolina ranks in our top 3 states for overall sales, every year. A pick up option exists in Charleston, our partners include imports, finished flooring builders, and  installation options. Trusted locals to verify the manner in which SYP Direct treats our homeowners. Searching online using the search term, Southern Pine Floors in SC reveals Lumber Liquidators pine. Before you buy Clover Lea call us we can explain to how they fooled you, and save your project!

Houzz Beach Floor Projects

Charleston’s French Quarter and SC Southern Pine

South Carolina Southern Pine and the French Quarter of Charleston, what? As a native of Louisiana, the writer understood historic restorations a from monetary point of view. Charleston customers and builders changed our perspective. Charleston does not keep  history alive for tourism, they love this city. Restorations are an obligation, a birthright almost and monetary concerns secondary at best. Did you know that Charleston is not the capital of South Carolina? Nope, and New Orleans is not the capital of Louisiana. Charleston was at one time, long ago and New Orleans never wanted (state) politics to get in the way of the party.

Beach Style Floors

South Carolina is a southeastern U.S. state known for its shoreline of subtropical beaches and marsh like sea islands. Our Beach style floors, the whitewash with a hint of blue , was borrowed from our first SC DIY beach floor. Maryland and South Carolina both claim Whitewashed Southern Pine as there own, with Maryland featuring a  “Chesapeake version”.  However, our SC Do It Yourself customers have become experts in the hybrid whitewash showing off blue and even green.

Myrtle Beach

A little further north, a roughly 60-mile stretch of beachfront known for golf courses and the vacation town Myrtle Beach. Myrtle Beach, a city and vacation resort on South Carolina’s Atlantic coast, is the hub of the Grand Strand, a 60-mile string of beaches. Along its beachfront boardwalk are arcades, souvenir stands and restaurants, as well as the old-fashioned Family Kingdom amusement park and the Sky Wheel, one of the country’s tallest Ferris wheels. Myrtle Beach also offers world class golf with courses designed by leading professionals.

White Oak, Hardwoods and Imports

Why hardwoods from Southern Yellow Pine Direct? Simple, we remove the people that either take a commission or shorten your boards. “Farther from the blade, the more you paid”, true 100% of the time. The best White Oak prices are always found at the mill in long lengths. We allow (end-users) homeowners to buy direct from the mill floor. We don’t eliminate the middleman, we take it tree to delivery meaning we eliminate several of them.

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