22 Aug

Wood siding and accent walls

Beadboard, V-Groove and Shiplap wood siding

What is Beadboard? Old-fashioned beadboard cladding consists of individual, generally narrow, boards with a routered “bead” edge on one side and beveled edge on the other. In Louisiana, they called this New Orleans bead board, but it is really the same as the stuff in North Carolina or Montana.

V-Groove Popularity

Today interior designers might tell you that V-groove adds soul to a room. V groove has become so popular a design style has been centered around it, “Shabby Chic”. Compared to bead board V-Groove is less ornate and has “cleaner” lines. This, in my opinion, allows it to work in more modern setting. Painted V-Groove can be used in large spaces, or you can finish it to suit your imagination. See Burnt V Groove.

What is Ship Lap?

Shiplap shiplap boards are joined with an overlapping “rabbet” joint, which usually creates a 90 degree-angled gap in between the boards. At SYP Direct our Shiplap comes in two options; Nickel and Penny. The difference? You guessed it, the width of the “L gap”.

Smooth All Four Sides aka S4S

S4S means no profile smooth all the way around. Our Reclaimed Pine S4S boards can make a great accent wall, and so much more. For more information check out this page and the pictures below.

Burnt V Groove

Tongue and Groove

Tongue and Groove always works for your walls,ceilings and of course, your floors.

Custom crate usable walls lowers delivery cost

10 Aug

Find local customers

Wood Floor Shopping

State and City “tours”

This is by no means a complete list in fact we have not done a new one in a couple of years just because things have gotten much busier but there are some cool stories posted, with a lot of cool ones missing. We once delivered a floor that had to be at the house it exact time because there was a birthday present, please do not ask us to ever do that again. We have a wall used in a play on Broadway, the PA Jr Ballet Stage, a 60,000 square foot CT project (2022), a wall in car dealership (amazing) and a ceiling in one founders of huge box store. In Martha’s Vineyard we have 3 floors, but they will never admit it. Charleston SC loves SYP Direct and we have warehouse (prefinished manufacturer) in North Carolina. We are everywhere but we do not have the overhead that cost you money and gets you a cheap floor.

If you want to find Southern Yellow Pine Direct customers, as long as you are not in Alaska, we have at least one in your state, which would be Hawaii. North and South Carolina, New England, the South including Virginia (joke) and west to Colorado with all the “top” border states such as Montana on the list.

We are local no matter you zip code

#2 grades rustic heart pine southern yellow pine direct

12 Jul

Rustic in eye of beholder

Knotty Pine

What is #2 Southern Yellow Knotty Pine?

Simple, it is a generic term for pine with knots, not a big surprise. What may surprise you, Knotty Pine is not a grade. #2 SYP is not a true grade and differs from mill to mill, i.e., floors or lumber. Lumber mills sort based on defects; knots included. But when a mill produces flooring, Heart Pine flooring, it is sorted based on the amount of visible heartwood, not defects. An astounding 95% of pine floors are produced by dimensional lumber mills using Loblolly or similar farmed species. Age creates not only gorgeous colors and character, durability and stability.

More about Rustic #2 Southern Pine

Southern Yellow #2 Knotty Pine differs from mill to mill depending on the end product. For example, we produce Heart Pine, therefore our #2 knotty pine simply lacks the heart content. Distance from the middle of the tree, not defects, determine our #2 grade. Southern Yellow Pine Direct tells you truth about your options.

More about Rustic Flooring from SYP Direct

Rustic floors, or rustic by definition refers to simplicity, rural or country style. 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.

Find your inner rustic

Knots or No Knots Email Us

Sometimes you feel like a knot, sometimes you don’t! (Anonymous with apologies)

1×8 Mill Run Heart

Our Mill-Run (rustic) Southern Pine floors might be perfect for you, if you understand real wood grades. And more importantly, when purchasing the unfinished version, experience and or a real wood professional are a firm requirement. 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.

13 Jan

Colorado

Wood Floor Shopping

Milk Paint tung oil blend shown here with mineral spirits

11 Jul

Texas

Wood Floor Shopping

Welcome to Southern Yellow Pine Direct trip through Texas, “Goats, Wine and Heart Pine” or “Deep in the Heart Pine of Texas, we like both names. Many of you may not understand the pride which exists in residents from Abilene to Corpus, “bigger is better and everything’s bigger in Texas”, “Don’t Mess with Texas”, it’s real. Do not take our word for it, visit the Hill Country and see what Texas is doin’ with wine. What goes good with BBQ from Rudy’s, a red I assume but plan on finding out.

Engineered by God, Heart Pine in Texas

Texans like real wood, we only sell real wood ‘engineered by God! Since we began publishing post such as Made in America and Investment flooring, all about real wood our Texas business has taken off. And we begin our tour in Paige Texas, 90 miles from Austin as we visit a creative Texan that certainly understand real wood. Peter M. Peter M purchased 1600 square feet of wide plank Caribbean Heart Pine flooring. Along with the CHP, Peter bought several pallets of v joint (groove) utility grade heart pine, for the walls and ceiling. And of course, he did this knowing the challenges of installing that volume in those lengths, not to mention waste factor. So before emailing about cabin grade, please know we cannot possibility provide our coverage or satisfaction guarantee, you better buy plenty!

About Pete’s Paige Heart Pine TX project

About the project, the sub-floor is 3/4 CDX plywood treated with a Borax based mixture, for fire and water protection. Next the sub-floor sealed using an outdoor deck finish, before covered in #15 felt, to control any noise. Peter told us ” he could not be happier with the way they turned out and that “the installation could not have been easier because the quality of the mill work. The quality of preparations, installation and finish are evident in the finished product, we love it”.

Is Texas in the South?

Ask most northern folks they immediately say yes. However, ask a Texan and the answers vary with one constant, nothing compares to Texas. Somewhere around 1977 the writer asked his uncle the question, to which the reply came “yes but don’t tell them cause they don’t think so”. The answer is yes Texas is a part of the South but Texas is still Texas! From diversity to the economy no other ‘southern’ state can compare with it. However, we had a few more questions about the Longhorn state.

Is Austin a part of Texas ?

Many argue that Austin is to Texas as New Orleans is to Louisiana, like a “whole other state”. Of course, Austin is the state capital of Texas, an inland city bordering the Hill Country region. Home to the University of Texas flagship campus, Austin is known for its eclectic live-music scene centered around country, blues and indie rock. As for SYP Direct Austin means, Reclaimed Spaces, and their amazing custom floors. Want a Heart Pine in Texas? And certainly in Austin we urge you to check out the site and the ‘spaces’ which have been created in your area. ‘Austin is the heart of Texas’ we heard more than once during our project with Reclaimed Spaces.

Is Austin part of The Texas Hill Country?

The consensus seems to be that yes, Austin is in the Texas Hill Country. The Texas Hill Country is a geographic region of Central and South Texas, forming the southeast part of the Edwards Plateau. The Hill Country plays host to a diverse population across 25 counties. Austin and San Antonio are the two metropolitan areas, each worthy a visit for sure. San Antonio with a population of 1.4 million is now larger than Dallas where we end our trip through Texas. But first, wine country is our vacation stop before any more business.

Did you know Hill Country was Wine Country?

Texas Wine Country? SYP Direct did the 15 things we did not know about Indiana and now we have ‘did you know the fact about Texas.’. How about that 1.7 million tourists visit wine country, every year. Not impressed, those visitors and wine sales generated over 13 billion dollars of economic impact throughout the hill country. SYP Direct is headed to Fredericksburg. “The Burg” , a city in central Texas, is known for its wineries and B&B’s.

City on Hill at Spring Creek

During the SYP Direct “tour” we searched for Bed and Breakfast in the area and found the City on the Hill at Spring Creek. What caught our eye? Look around their website we found our Southern Pine in the Hill Country! Seeing the pictures of the Cabins, we knew exactly where we were going to stay. Something about that place felt like home, later we found out it was the people, and the place. We met the nicest most down to earth people who made both of us feel like part of the family. We had a fantastic weekend touring the wine and sampling the wine country. Fredericksburg and the whole area is just a cool place to visit but our trip would not be the same without staying at City on the Hill at Spring Creek, 100% thumbs up.

Toledo Bend Tung Oil & SYP Direct

And finally on the way back to the real south we find the Texas Tung Oil Finish of Toledo Bend! Thanks to Lynn and crew we have these two pictures an amazing floor. “We just kept rolling it on until it stopped soaking it in”, the recipe for this floor. Shown here, 3 cycle sand, apply and dry. Thanks for traveling with SYP Direct through Texas, we could not get to everyone and not everyone sends pictures because they want to let people think they spent a JR Ewing fortune, sorry last bad joke we promise.

Fancy Goat Boutique B & B on Main

So why is a flooring site writing about Goats in the wine country of Texas? Well sometimes stuff is so good that you want to tell other people about it. The Goat Milk Soap made at the Fancy Goat Boutique B&B on Main is one of those things! Not only did we use the amazing Goat Milk Product, our dogs benefited too. Everyone is silky smooth thanks to those cute little Nigerian Dwarf Goats, which you can visit as you shop or stay over. My spouse loved the boots, and boots are very important to her, I mean us. Southern Knotty Pine in the Texas Hill Country along with Wine & goats- you gotta love Texas.

Finished DIY

Wood siding and accent walls

V-Groove Popularity

What is Ship Lap?

Smooth All Four Sides aka S4S

Burnt V Groove

Tongue and Groove

Find local customers

State and City “tours”

We are local no matter you zip code

Rustic in eye of beholder

What is #2 Southern Yellow Knotty Pine?

More about Rustic #2 Southern Pine

Find your inner rustic

Sometimes you feel like a knot, sometimes you don’t! (Anonymous with apologies)

1×8 Mill Run Heart

Colorado

Burnt V-Groove

V Groove Colorado 2020

Tiny Homes, Powerhorn Colorado

Like a Tiny Ski Lodge

Colorado Discover Ability/Adaptive Center at Powderhorn

V Groove Colorado 2020

More about Colorado Discover Ability

Exterior Tiny Home

Texas

Engineered by God, Heart Pine in Texas

Is Texas in the South?

Is Austin a part of Texas ?

Is Austin part of The Texas Hill Country?

Did you know Hill Country was Wine Country?

City on Hill at Spring Creek

Toledo Bend Tung Oil & SYP Direct

Fancy Goat Boutique B & B on Main