Antique oak flooring is normally associated with reclaimed timber for old boards and warehouses that has aged through years of use and abuse. Most of the old barns and factories that had oak flooring have disappeared so the only sustainable option is handmade antique flooring. The products shown here are just an example for see more products and details here. 

There are many versions of this in the UK flooring market and most use machines to try and replicate the surface and texture of reclaimed Oak.  The problem with this method is that the surface indentations become regular and you get a very “false” appearance.

Even where companies profess to “hand scrape” the surface it is still repetitive.

We have devised a method whereby our craftsmen are specifically trained to prepare the surface of our antique oak floor boards as if they had been on the floor for a hundred years.  This means that there are no repetitive patterns showing and you get the most natural reclaimed look possible in a new prepared oak floor.

The following characteristics will be found on our antique oak flooring:

Large and small unfilled knots, although our boards do not contain a large number of knots and they are not dead knots. Dead knots left in a board can fall out or become loose so when comparing products be careful of the very cheap antique floors.

Areas of grain especially the softer grain hand scraped to about a 1mm to 1.5mm depth to give the surface a reclaimed look.

The grain on antique oak flooring will have wide colour variation, heart and some heart shake, occasional cracks and holes. We ensure that the features of the boards have no effect in their strength and all our antique floor boards are structurally sound.

Antique oak flooring is for older buildings and we get specified for a lot of Grade1 * and Grade 11 listed buildings where the old floors have rotted through or due to a major refurbishment where all or some of the floors need to be treated.

  

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  Antique Smoke Oak Floor 220mm Wide AMETHYST-E107
  This antique Smoke engineered oak wood floor is perfect being carefully and subtly hand distressed by craftsmen to look 100 years old (GRADE CDE). This…
  
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  Antique Natural Oak Floor 150mm Wide DIAMOND-E300LN
  This wooden floor has been hand distressed to make it look 100 years old. This is a rustic grade board with knots and character and the grading is CD.…
  
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  Antique Burnt Oak Floor 150mm Wide DIAMOND-E301LN
  This wooden floor has been hand distressed to make it look 100 years old. This is a rustic grade board with knots and character and the grading is CD.…
  
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  Antique Natural Oak Floor 189mm Wide DIAMOND-E308LN
  This wooden floor has been hand distressed to make it look 100 years old. This is a rustic grade board with knots and character and the grading is CD.…
  
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  Antique Smoke Oak Floor 189mm Wide DIAMOND-E309LN
  This wooden floor has been hand distressed to make it look 100 years old. This is a rustic grade board with knots and character and the grading is CD.…