Engineered Reclaimed Wide Planks
Nowadays 50-60% of new builds have concrete sub-floors. However, one cannot nail solid boards to a concrete base! We produce floors that are fully engineered which allow one to lay wide and long boards either as a floating floor or by gluing directly to the screed/concrete. Very few companies engineer boards from reclaimed timbers, but we can produce any of our floors engineered in this way.
Our in-house engineering and kiln-drying capacity allows us to make and guarantee fully engineered floors from any of our raw stock material. These engineered boards can be laid over under-floor heating systems or floated over any concrete sub-floors. Our secondary kiln-drying process ensures boards are fit for use with any underfloor-heating system.
Our signature product is our wide, reclaimed oak boards. These beautiful long boards (average of 3m) are up to 280 mm wide. They make a striking, evidently reclaimed, finished floor. These boards come in random widths, but are also available with a variety of surface textures - see our section on hand-sanded textures or you can take them "In the White" to be sanded and finished on site. Please just ask us.
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Our current stockholdings of Wide and Long boards:
- Antique or Reclaimed Oak: 110 to 280 mm wide
- Douglas Fir - Slow-Grown: 120 to 320 mm wide
- Antique or Reclaimed Elm: 150 to 250 mm wide
- Jarrah: 90 to 160 mm wide
- Pitch Pine - Quarter Sawn or Flat Sawn: 100 to 260 mm wide
- Burmese Teak: 85 to 220 mm wide
- Mahogany: 100mm to 235 mm wide
- Baltic Yellow Pine - Slow Growth: 170mm to 240 mm wide
- Iroko: 90 to 160 mm wide
Engineering Specification and Process:
- All boards fully de-nailed, while protecting the original face and selected for quality
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Kiln-dried on site to set moisture content:
- For normal, centrally heated conditions, 9-11% for hardwood, 10-12% for softwood
- For timber that will be laid over under-floor heating, we perform a secondary kilning to bring the moisture content to 6-8% for hardwood and 8-10% for softwood
- Written guarantee provided to cover the kiln-drying
- All boards regularised exactly to one chosen width (the widest possible based on selection)
- All boards are precision cross-cut on both ends.
- Sanded to required texture - see our hand-made textures
- Precision-planed on back face to provide a 6-10mm solid wear surface
- Engineered onto top-quality birch plywood: BB/BB or BB/CP grade, 11 strand x 15mm
- Vacuum pressed with minimum of 30 mins cooling time
- Every board hand-checked to ensure no de-lamination
- Surface filled and repaired as required. Long top edges hand-rolled to 1.5mm radius
- Grooved on long edges only; loose tongues supplied in 1-2m lengths
- Available unfinished, French-Polished, semi- or fully-finished to specification