Reclaimed wood is fine material for making reclaimed wood furniture or hardwood flooring. Hardwood flooring made of reclaimed wood is absolutely beautiful for house that can also be part of the green effort for recycling. Reclaimed wood reduce deforestation, preserve living trees and carry a part of the past into your home.
There are many kinds of reclaimed hardwood for flooring came many regions in the world like from subtropical countries and tropical countries. Subtropical hardwood, such as American Cherry or chestnut, black walnut, Peruvian walnut, rosewood, maple, zebrawood, red oak and white oak. Tropical hardwood like: Indonesian teak, merbau, kempas, satinwood, mahogany, Brazilian cherry.
Environmentally, reclaimed woods are the safest choice for furniture or flooring because their use replaces the requirement to harvest new timber. Combined with all the structural and aesthetic advantages, makes it a unique, has own character and precious. The matter is just how to find, clean and get it appropriate to refine it.
These sources reused, recycled, reclaimed wood for flooring are from dismantled factories or warehouses, old wooden bridges, barns, rail roads, shipbuilding, along with other old buildings.
What makes reclaimed hardwood flooring different from new wood is it is made of solid wood of course while new hardwood flooring could be from solid or engineered wood. The durability of solid and engineered is way different. Solid or reclaimed wood is more durable, sustainable, and charming compared to new wood. The texture, color and patina can not being copied by new wood.
Preferred for its durability, it also has weakness of intensive cleaning and preparation. Besides, reclaimed hardwood is having more expensive price than regular new wood.
