Environmentally friendly? Tick. Stunning Australian timbers? Tick. Great new installation method? Double Tick.
|
Whether you're after a sleek and contemporary floor or more of an aged, rustic style our recycled floorboards have a classic charm that can’t be found in new wood floors.
Not to be confused with reclaimed flooring, which has been lifted from existing floors, our recycled flooring is sawn down from larger recycled or salvaged timbers sourced from all kinds of old buildings and structures. All our flooring is processed at our mill in the Northern Rivers area, just south of Casino and shipped Australia wide. (See more on timber salvage sources below). |
|
Floorboard options.
Our recycled hardwood floorboards are supplied in 80 x 14 mm, square dressed planks in random lengths. These boards can be supplied as sanded, part sanded or wire brushed for either an antique, rustic or more contemporary style.
You can oil them, stain them, whitewash or clear coat them to get just the finish to suit your style and décor.
Classed as "Non-structural", they must be attached (top nailed) to a substructure such a ply on concrete, yellow tongue or an existing timber floor.
Price: $127 per m2. / $10.16 per LM. Discounts apply for orders over 40m2. POA.
You can oil them, stain them, whitewash or clear coat them to get just the finish to suit your style and décor.
Classed as "Non-structural", they must be attached (top nailed) to a substructure such a ply on concrete, yellow tongue or an existing timber floor.
Price: $127 per m2. / $10.16 per LM. Discounts apply for orders over 40m2. POA.
'Easy Lay' floor panels.All of our floor styles are now available in our 'Easy Lay' panel system.
Just like our immensely popular Modular Walls, we can now supply our floorboards on a 2400 x 240mm, 1200 x 240mm and 600 x 240mm ply backed system. You can lay a floor in a fraction of the time - perfect for commercial jobs and well within reach of DIY-ers. Simply glue or nail the panels to the subfloor, nailing each one in place through the overlapping ply lip. Depending on the style you choose, they may still need to be sanded and coated on site. Supplied as 14mm hardwood on 12mm ply. Price: $175 per m2. Discounts apply for orders over 40m2. POA. |
|
Recycled flooring - 80 x 14mm mixed hardwoods, square dressed, sanded "as new".
|
Recycled flooring - 80 x 14mm mixed hardwoods, square dressed, wire brushed.
Coated with tung oil in this image.
|
Recycled flooring - 80 x 14mm mixed hardwoods, square dressed, part sanded.
Coated with a satin floor clear in this image.
|
Recycled flooring - 80 x 14mm mixed hardwoods, square dressed, wire brushed.
Uncoated in this image.
|
Timber Species
|
The timbers we use for our flooring are some of the hardest in the world. Couple this with their many years of seasoning and you've got one tough floor!
Our flooring is supplied as mixed hardwoods or categorised into 'mixed creams' or 'mixed reds'. Even within a single species there can be a diverse range of colours, so timbers such as Brushbox, Spotted Gum and Grey Ironbark could fall into either creams or reds depending on their colour. (We do not supply single species). Note that as a general rule, longer lead times may apply to a 'reds' selection. Here are some of the main timbers we use:
|
Janka
The hardness rating of timber species is measured by the Janka test, which tests the resistance of the timber to indentation.
|
Recycled flooring - Dressed, Mixed Hardwood
|
Recycled flooring - Dressed , Mixed Creams.
|
Recycled flooring - Dressed, Mixed Reds.
|
Easy Lay Floor in Mixed Creams with water-based clear coat.
|
Recycled timber flooring 80 x 14mm Mixed Hardwoods
|
Floor coating examples on 'Easy Lay' panels.
|
Recycled flooring - Wire brushed, Mixed Hardwood
Wire brushed floorboards - raw.
|
Timber sources
|
With thousands of tonnes per year of timber going to landfill, we are proud to be playing a small role in reducing those figures.
The timbers we recycle come from various sources, predominantly from the demolition of structures such as houses and buildings as well as from the salvage of railway sleepers and transoms. The construction timbers we mill generally come from framework such as floor joists, ceiling trusses and wall frames sourced from demolition contractors, salvage yards and even home builders. The majority of these timbers come from in and around the Sydney region, and are then transported to our milling facility near Casino in Northern NSW. The railway sleepers come from far and wide – mainly within NSW and South East QLD sourced mainly from companies with railway maintenance contracts. |
|
Old Growth Timber
|
The qualities found in reclaimed timbers are unlike those of new timber.
Logging from ‘Old Growth’ Forests is fortunately now a thing of the past, but the use of these beautiful timbers is not. The density, stability and durability we see in reclaimed timbers is just as much about the time they have been seasoned as about the timber that was used in the first place, especially where hardwood is concerned. Older trees produce stronger timber. It’s that simple. Years of seasoning on top is an added bonus. Not only have our recycled timbers come from structures that are already decades old, the timbers used to construct them would have come from potentially century old trees. It is entirely feasible that the timber in our humble floorboards was around long before our cities were... Now there's something to think about. |
|
|