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Finish to order classic rustic southern pine floors.

Finish to order

Finish to order takes mill direct one step further by sending our floors to Premiere Finishing in Reidsville North Carolina where they are transformed into a luxury custom floor. Before reading any further I need to share the truth about finish to order (factory) versus site finished wood floors. Finish to order versus Site Finished solid wood floors The best pine finishes are the ones that create gorgeous floors. Over the years we have come […]

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White washed circle sawn white oak

The eco-friendly floor

Green, eco-friendly floors are about longevity Our company offers homeowners the power to choose an investment versus a product. The difference? An investment increases in value when a product is designed to wear out and then replaced. One outlives the house, the others on average, about 7 years. So I ask, which is the green floor? But wait don't you cut down trees to get real wood? Yes, once and it does not involved any [...]
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Sustainable Timber

Sustainable Timber

Sustainable timber, i.e., timber that has been harvested and replenished which may occur naturally or farmed.  ‘Sustainable Forestry’, however, involves more than just planting a tree when you cut one down. Sustainable timber management or forestry means doing no ecological damage to the surrounding environment. Plant a tree To those who want to help stop Global Warming- buy a real wood floor and plant a tree. Healthy, sustainably harvested timber creates forest that become more [...]
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Salvaged pine decking using skins 1/2 thick

Why homeowners buy LVT

Why do people buy ‘single use’ floors? (A product designed with planned obsolescence ridiculous promises and useless warranties.) LVT MARKETING- Waterproof- Lifetime Warranty-and Luxury in the name. Homeowners buy it because the marketing is amazing and frankly trying to find real wood wears them out over time. Hand it to the majors, they've created a repeat customer product line; a new one about every decade or so. The industry is a mess everyone wants fake [...]
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Buying flooring online means knowing your source

Reclaimed or Salvaged

Reclaimed or salvaged? What is the difference between reclaimed and salvaged? If you were in the flooring industry someone might say $15 a square foot, and they wouldn't be far off. So, if you're shopping for reclaimed oak or heart pine it's important to know what you're looking at it's important to know where it came from or its provenance. Salvaged Heart Pine Accent Walls Salvaged is something like an old floor being taken up [...]
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Rustic does not always have knots and vice versa

Laminate is not wood

Laminate is not wood, nor is it a floor. A photocopy of wood and a temporary floor cover, best define laminate. Laminate is made with synthetic materials or very thinly sliced pieces of wood.

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Monocoat Rubio Finished Flooring

Why use VOCs?

Why Are VOCs Still Used? What a great question? The answer is that very few of us know they exist in almost everything manufactured for mass merchandising. Volatile Organic Chemicals (VOCs) can be used to produce products and created as biproducts. VOC's can be harmless; they can be dangerous but the majority of just the "unknown" as is not enough information to make a determination. Paint, wood-finishing products, lacquers, hydraulic fluids, petroleum fuels, adhesives, pesticides, [...]
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Salvaged pine decking using skins 1/2 thick

Harmful chemicals or VOC’s

Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) is a term used to refer to organic chemical compounds that evaporate while drying (volatile). Products that contain VOCs release vapors during use and storage that are often harmful to both humans and the environment.

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Tung oil on coat on Caribbean Heart Pine

Urethane or Oil Finish

The main distinction between urethane or an oil finish; one sits on top the other penetrates. Beyond that simple definition you get into specific products and there are too many for that exercise.

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Milk paint blended tung oil finish on southern pine

Tung Oil Finish

But what about Tung Oil and Southern Pine? Every single finish, customer project using oils looks amazing, it is about time certainly not the protection.

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