Salvaged Wood Flooring Cycle Explained and How Homeowners Can Benefit

 Searching for an eco-friendly flooring alternative that has a character all its own? Salvaged wood flooring comes with numerous benefits. It offers the splendor and warm comfort of wood and the fulfillment of employing environmentally responsible building practices. Reclaiming wood from old buildings and the bottom of rivers is not magic. It’s a process. But once you work that process, it can work like magic.

 

Here’s the Salvaged Wood Flooring Cycle Broken Down Into Three Simple Parts

 

 

Reclaimed wood is lumber from long-standing unoccupied buildings, which is refinished for new purposes. Factories, old barns and warehouses are the main source of reclaimed lumber. Companies have been known to source wood from less traditional structures such as boxcars, coal mines and wine barrels, while others search lake and riverbeds for heart pine logs that may have fallen there through the years.

 

 

You will need quite a few pieces of equipment once you’ve found a source of reclaimed wood, most particularly a pickup truck to lug your flooring or other treasures. You’ll also need a crowbar or pry bar, and a hammer with claws. You should take out the flooring exactly opposite from the way it is installed. You will start where the flooring ended and work your way back to where it started.

 

 

The romantic history of salvaged wood is a major attraction for many homeowners – the fact that the wood came from wine or cider barrels or from an old factory or school. Stories abound about river-recovered logs that sank during the Civil War or trees that were cut for the King and Queen of England in the early nineteenth century. People value salvaged wood not only for its quality, but also for the stories behind it.