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Wood Block Flooring, Wood block floors, End Block flooring, woodblock floors are some of the
names used to describe our products. They are
comfortable, beautiful and
"Earth Friendly"! Read about
our efforts in this area.
| Today, wood blocks
are considered excellent, durable and beautiful materials and are
used all over the world in custom applications, generally being
specified by upper echelon architects and designers for fine
lobbies, commercial, museums and better homes. The Highest
Best Use for small and ‘at risk’ trees. View
our products
The Forest Floor Project by Old Wood LLC.
Wooden block floors, also known as end block, butcher block and parquet floors have been around as long as someone has had a cross cut saw to cut a tree into rounds or a square beam into blocks.
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"Wood Block Floor" Dark Walnut
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The resulting slice is true, perfect, vertically grained wood with the annual rings being the evenly distributed
Wooden block floors, also known as end block, butcher block and parquet floors have been around as long as someone has had a cross cut saw to cut a tree into rounds or a square beam into blocks. The resulting ‘slice’ is true, perfect, vertically grained wood with the annual rings being the evenly distributed wear surface. Even soft woods
become much harder, so hard in fact that Pine was and is used
extensively as a paving block for streets
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The resulting slice is true, perfect, vertically grained
wood with the annual rings being the evenly distributed. Wooden block floors, also known as end block, butcher block and parquet floors
have been around as long as someone has had a cross cut saw to cut a tree into
rounds or a square beam into blocks. The resulting ‘slice’ is true,
perfect, vertically grained
wood with the annual rings being the evenly distributed wear surface. |
| David Old laying out endblock flooring
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Even soft
woods become much harder, so hard in fact that |
Pine was and is used extensively
as a paving block for streets in major cities around the world. New York City at one time in the early 1900’s had millions of feet of wooden paved streets as did Boston, Paris, Tokyo and many other world capitols. To this day,
remnants of these bitumen treated blocks can be found on streets and bridges of towns in Florida and elsewhere. Edgar Allen Poe wrote a paean of praise to the
marvelous, quiet character of the wooden streets of his day! Today, wood blocks are considered excellent, durable and beautiful materials and are used all over the world in custom applications, generally being specified by
upper echelon architects and designers for fine lobbies, commercial,
museums and better
homes. The Highest Best Use for small and ‘at risk’ trees. There are many reasons wood blocks have not come into common usage and Old Wood LLC strives to address most of these as we grow our level of expertise and knowledge. Solutions such as stress relief sawing and slow but thorough drying help greatly as we seek to move this product to the forefront of a new wave of applications which showcase it’s
significance as the highest best use for woods from at risk western forests and ‘problem’ woods elsewhere in the world such as the beetle killed forests of Belize. Your blocks are made on a custom basis in various shapes and sizes as well as
thickness, from stocks of slow dried cants. We are eager to make the right block for your specific application, so please, work with us to find the perfect synthesis of design and function for your custom job. We have Squares, Rectangles (generally based on either a 1-2 ratio to allow for brick patterns and herringbones or the Greek Golden Rectangle). Hexagons and Octagons are available in both Pine and Douglas Fir. All our wood is from certified forests being either FSC or better grade harvests (ALL of our harvests far surpass FSC criteria but FSC is expensive and extremely paper work intensive at present). We are all about great forestry solutions in all we
do.
SPECIES:
We specialize in ‘at risk’ woods from western forests but we do use some well harvested hardwoods such as red oak and walnut for our floors. Our ‘trade secret’ drying process allows us to make blocks that are adapted to the climate in which they will be used so any wood can be adapted to you needs. Given enough lead time, virtually any wood is a candidate for end block.
SIZES:
We can cut blocks up to 8” or even larger, however the best and most stable blocks are usually under 4” in overall height or a 4x6 tile block. Nominal sizes are usually ¼” smaller than ‘named’ size, i.e. a 4x4 is typically 3 ¾”x 3 ¾”.
THICKNESS:
Wood blocks can range from one half inch to six inches
thick or even thicker, depending on the application.
Half inch thick Douglas Fir 4x4 blocks are excellent for many applications
while a typical factory floor would be between two to three inches in
thickness in pine.
We can easily build a floor to your requirement and our modern Tiger Turbo
saw cuts to a tolerance of five thousandths or better.
Sizes can range from ¼” to 6” . ½” is entirely
‘doable’ using our in house drying methods.
Commercial blocks will usually be 2”-4” while residential and
conventional flooring applications will range from ½” to 1”.
Ordering and pricing:
We will price your floor in line with ‘conventional pricing’ in the $4-$8-$12 per square foot range depending on what you have in mind and of course, volumes. Hexagons and Octagons are of course more expensive and the center block on the Octagonal pattern can be very inexpensive or very
‘dear'. Lead times can be from one month to three months depending on the size of the job and how ‘special’ it may be. We take a 50% deposit (if outsourced materials are used for center tiles or wood species, deposit may be
higher).
GUARANTEE:
We guarantee every block to be suitable for the application but you or your installer will bear the final responsibility for the integrity and suitability of the floor. We will replace any block for up to two years from date of shipment, but our responsibility is limited to cost of materials and shipping costs of up to $50 and we do not cover cost of replacement or any ancillary costs of construction or damages caused by any failure or losses due to or arising out any
claim.
Our Hope, is that we will be able to work with you to produce a world class floor of unique character, extreme durability and great beauty. Lets begin the conversation at your
convenience!
This is where End Block Flooring or Wood Block Flooring comes in!
We envision a healthy export market for the process and the product and are excited about the terrific and varied design aspects which we are already exploring in depth.
The rest of our site will grow as we add completed projects to our ‘book’. If you’d like to collaborate with us on a project of any size, we’d love to talk with you so please feel free to call.
Phone toll free anytime: 888-545-9663.
Thanks for reading, check back, check in as we move this project forward with your comments and help. Write and call anytime!
The Old Family and crew are all at your service at:
888-545-9663 or email at: david@douglasfirfloors.com
Your friend in the woods,
David J. Old
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