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Traditional Hardwood Flooring from Carlisle

Don and Kerry Carlisle from Carlisle Restoration Lumber visit the project house to discuss the custom flooring being installed in the kitchen area. Old growth White Oak was chosen for this project. Carlisle specializes in custom products, and spends a great deal of time communicating with the homeowners about what kinds of styles and colors are available. Don Carlisle explains to Bob how this family business focuses on maintaining slow-growth and long-growth trees and maximizing the yield from each tree. Carlisle floors bring true wood character and beauty to this new Colonial.
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Traditional Hardwood Flooring from Carlisle

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" We're very very happy to have received the flooring in this and that this is that strip flooring is real special stuff right it is what kind of wood is it. This is actually our country grade of old growth white oak it's white oak from new England and of course it comes in various widths. And -- who do this always. Well those are just stress reliefs that we columns that would eliminate the surface tension on a wide board OK. Beautiful now. One of the things that's interesting about this is the fact that its all custom. To the room and the client Kerry tell us how that works."

" OK great -- what happens is is. A customer will give us an idea of the general look that they want they might want an old traditional looking floor -- and then we might narrow it down to something like our. Why why don't floors. And then from there might choose on certain widths maybe four to ten inches wide. They tell us certain colors that they might be looking or they'll send us pictures of what they -- easy then we custom make the samples. Are an actual sample of that floor for them. With different color tones that you would see in the old home right or they wanted you know a different look a modern look."

" Yeah. We're getting here -- Howard has already installed this much of it and it's old growth what does that mean. Basically it. It's a tree that's been allowed to reach maturity. And it grows in an environment through natural selection which means that it's gonna have a slower growth to it. It's gonna have a denser green has any of the more durable let you have things like wood a lot of people would call flaws knots. And bark lines that are still left in the wood yes and that's part of it to my highest part of the beauty of it yet but. Well you know a lot of the looks that are coming back today people read the lines magazines like country living things this -- they want to get. Then more traditional looking floors in -- old floors they didn't grade these things out. Now Carlisle has been around for about thirty years right yes my father actually started it. 35 years ago so you've been selectively harvesting some of this timber. -- We have force -- off and on eastern seaboard and on species. That specialize in going in and selectively taking immature dominant and and it needs to be done some very. Good thing for the force because it's creating a higher value on your -- work. Which is preserving getting the average land owner to preserve their trees versus cutting it quickly. Some of these pieces are what is it fourteen -- sixteen that's probably a fourteen foot long piece ball that's quite a length of material. Now is there -- process by which you can maximize the yield. Well there is we take each. Piece of timber and try to maximize. The length and the width of the board to leave as much as a man -- natural beauty in the wood well this brings us to this whole area of this plank. Someone made a conscious decision not to cut out this knot that's correct. Now it's up to the homeowner once they get their floor if they wanted to leave that in their floor or not. But most of our customers were designing old floors would prefer to have that old line on the board. And show the length of the board versus cutting it and putting in a four and a six foot piece right. --"

" Look I don't think you'll want to remember that each customer gives us a very good idea we have a lot of conversations on what they're looking forward to. About six months exactly so when this goes through the various process to make the floor. Each person knows OK this customer wants to really maintain those longer boards and keep in the knots and character throughout the work."

" Sure and that is just the point the character of the wood I mean that knot is not just I'm not exactly history of the tree -- exactly and goes on the way all the way down here in the grain of the wood and up beyond it."

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