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Antique Oak Flooring
Real reclaimed wood is very expensive and can be difficult (and therefore costly) to install. However, people still want that authentic reclaimed look and feel which is why we have developed special techniques using our skilled craftsmen to handwork a sustainable reclaimed wood floor effect. Using advanced modern methods we’ve made this floors engineered meaning they’re suitable for use with underfloor heating, ethically sourced and have approval of the Officers for Grade 1 Start and other listed buildings. For more information on our antique reclaimed flooring call 01666 504 015.
Antique Oak flooring is often associated with reclaimed timber. This comes with a connotation of a product that has perhaps aged through years of us. As this naturally aged and distressed timber becomes rarer, the prices are soaring. We’ve developed a range of engineered oak flooring that has been hand distressed to recreate the look of reclaimed timber. This is a sustainable and cost effective method of having a classic antique floor.
There are other wood floor manufacturers that produce ‘antiqued’ floors; however, a lot of the time machines are used to distress the wood to replicate the surface texture of reclaimed Oak. This mechanical method of aging the timber often creates a manufactured, false, repetitive feel or design to the surface of the floor. Our hand distressing methods create a far more genuine randomised pattern of aging helping further increase the reclaimed timber effect.
Click here to see hand distressed antique oak flooring from The Solid Wood Flooring Company.
Our antique oak has been used in the world famous Spitbank Fort, to see more on this project visit our Inspiration Gallery
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