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Clover Lea Pine Floors

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Beach style SC southern Pine floors
07 Aug

South Carolina

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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!

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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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Natural Finished Caribbean Heart Pine
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Versus Clover Lea Pine

Misconceptions, Misdirections and Misinformation, Wood Floor Shopping

The big secret in the flooring industry? The chemicals used in manufacturing laminate are dangerous and they are the fastest growing component of our landfills. ’s difficult to quantify what chemicals, will leach from laminates once they hit the landfill. Not to mention the emissions from incineration.  To put it simply, this stuff doesn’t decompose, because of all the chemicals and glues, the material never breaks down organically.

Comparing Lumber Liquidators Clover Lea pine to Southern Yellow Longleaf floors is not apples to apples at any point except price. Clover Lea pine floors are not a grade, they are a brand. The pictures on their website show closeups of vertical grain in varied widths, no knots. Is that what they are selling? Caveat’ Emptor, a very old phrase which indicates buyer beware. Do more research than what that “person” , flooring is an investment for homeowners. Do your due diligence, spend as much time as you would picking a financial advisor or a mutual fund.

R.L. Colston unfinished 3/4 solid southern pine $3.29 per square foot, no grade just an up close shot of vertical grain with no knots. The thought of explaining how grossly misleading and why seems irrelevant, but we press on. $3.29 for what exactly? The information, limited but the obvious, however the reason might surprise you. Lumber Liquidators wants to sell you the floors with warranties which mean commissions, quotas and kickbacks. Confused? Did you ever buy a new car, it is that guy explaining gap insurance or undercoating, everywhere you look. Why buy that unfinished pine when you can buy LVT for $2.99, right?

Update September 14 2020 Lumber Prices 

Clover Lea Prices

The best pine flooring prices guaranteed! SYP Direct will match or beat any (apples to apples) competitors price. How can we be so sure? We are the online pine flooring mill and your local source no matter your zip code. Key in this promise is the apples to apples terminology. To be clear, we are not being slick or trying to mislead you, not at all. Simply put, we have no competition that has our quality and our prices. Lumber liquidators by definition sells over stocks and defects. They are a public company with shareholders and directors all of which demand growth year over year. All of that squeezed from unfinished Southern Pine, versus a mill direct made to offer floor?

 

 

The difference in Clover Lea and SYP Direct

What’s the difference between a shirt at Walmart versus a custom one, made to order. Everything is different, the quality, the density, the character, the hardness (for sure) and of course the lengths. Clover Lea is bi product of multiple (2 x 4’s) lumber mills, the scraps, shorts and defects. SYP Direct does not sell scraps. We mill your floor to order, shipping direct from the mill floor. Comparing our Southern Pine to Lumber Liquidators, like dog food and top shelf filet mignon. 

Alabama Pine

Alabama is like adding Swiss to watch or Louisiana to gumbo. Unfortunately, the term heart pine is far too often to describe flooring that does not meet heart pine standards. Only about 5% of total pine production in the United States is Longleaf pine. Longleaf pine grows much slower and therefore is not conducive the fast-growing pine plantations that produce pine for building materials. For example, Florida and MS Gulf coast pine look similar, but have nowhere near the Janka rating of their northern cousin in Alabama.

Advertising by box stores

How can the layman  compare pine floors? Length, type of knots, weight, age, species etc. would do the trick, but we live in the real world.  Instead, today a Google search for best pine floors sends you Clover Lea or some other box store mass marketed product. Buyers many times have no clue the difference between the quality (see above) differences between “ours and theirs”, it is substantial to say the least.

 

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Southern Yellow Pine Direct offer homeowners the reliability of an A+ rated BBB company; the best quality, pricing and service bar none. We operate under an "old school" philosophy that the customer is always right. We make sure you are just that by educating and dispelling myths about Southern Pine and Heart Pine flooring.
Remember we are a mill to order manufacturer of unfinished and prefinished Southern Pine, including our speciality Heart Pine. Our lead times are normally about two weeks, with Hardwoods and Imports the lead times vary and that is an understatement. 2 days -2 months has bee the answer since COVID. But things are imporving, as White Oak prices continue to fall. (Jason Howard 9/9/2022)
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