Heart Pine Floor

Award winning river recovered and reclaimed luxury antique wood flooring.

Heart pine floor. Unless you plan on installing engineered heart pine planks we highly recommend using a professional to install this style of flooring. Once regaling north america s southeastern savannah in expansive groves the standing timber has long been romanticized by writers naturalists and woodworkers. Reclaimed heart pine floors improve with exposure to sunlight becoming richer in warmth and hue.

Our solid reclaimed antique heart pine flooring is re milled from timbers and decking of old mills and warehouses and displays a warm rich patina that adds distinction to any space. Try a test piece first. You ll obscure this natural aging patina with stain but if you want to stain keep it light.

Let the stain dry for 24 hours and then apply the oil finish. Heart pine is sometimes called longleaf pine southern yellow pine and yellow pine. Heart pine floors darken slightly with exposure to light and will age gracefully taking on a unique mellow color.

Designed and preserved by nature carefully recovered and expertly refined. The superior physical properties of this slow growing tree taking 200 to 400 years to mature ensured its longevity for many generations. For face nailing installation we have available the square cut flooring nails that are made the same as the nails used over 100 years ago.

Depending on the quality of the boards you may have to deal with dozens of nails holes and typically have a higher waste as well. You deserve only the best. Multiple species including 200 year old heart pine and heart cypress.