Longleaf Heart Pine Flooring

Heart pine is sometimes called longleaf pine southern yellow pine and yellow pine.

Longleaf heart pine flooring. Reclaimed 1 flatsawn heart pine flooring highly sought after by discerning home and business owners alike our reclaimed clear flatsawn heart pine floor is one of the most elegant and warming floors we mill. The grain is not your usual oak pattern found in 75 of homes and is a rich red color thanks to the resin. Longleaf provides their flooring in several styles with flatsawn quartersawn rustic and skip planed heart pine.

American reclaimed antique longleaf heart pine flooring has a long history. The same southern longleaf heart pine that was so prized for the first 300 years of colonization is now available as flooring again milled from trees that are set aside when the much faster growing southern yellow pine is harvested. Once regaling north america s southeastern savannah in expansive groves the standing timber has long been romanticized by writers naturalists and woodworkers alike.

In traditional formal fashion there are very few if any pin knots under 1 2 or small nail holes. Now over 150 years later this seasoned wood has been reclaimed and is ready to go into your home. Reclaimed heart pine floors improve with exposure to sunlight becoming richer in warmth and hue.

Heart wood hardness and strength comes from its resin and longleaf has more resin than the other 200 species of pine. Southern longleaf heart pine flooring. While antique heart pine has been reclaimed from demolished buildings and recovered from rivers for many years another resource for heart pine is now available.