Wide Plank Flooring
Whether driven by the historical connotations, the authentic vintage aesthetic, or the mindset of sustainable re-use, interest in antique and reclaimed wide plank flooring is flourishing.
After having served their communities well for a century or more, many 19th- and early 20th-century barns and mills are reaching the end of their productive life or are being retired due to changing demographics and economic realities.
Before demolition, we carefully harvest wooden beams, floorboards, and siding from these historic structures and give them the opportunity to provide perhaps another century of productivity and beauty—this time as flooring in your home.
We have been producing the finest mill direct wide plank wood flooring on the market for 30 years. Our solid hardwood flooring is sustainably harvested, selectively cut, and milled to your specifications for your project. Our customers receive the highest quality, most stunning, widest plank flooring available. And because we sell wholesale-eliminating the middleman-our flooring is surprisingly affordable.
Wide Plank Flooring Species
For several reasons when you choose to lay ash flooring in your home, you are making a statement. Most obvious are the aesthetic implications: its bright, sunny character and subtle swirling patterns say, “come in and make yourself comfortable.”
Ash also suggests ruggedness: its density and robust strength invite your best pounding while you smile and say, “bring it on.”
Lastly, due to its imperiled status at the destructive hands of the Emerald Ash Borer beetle, walking each day on your wide-plank ash floor signifies honoring the essence and posterity of this mighty and beautiful tree
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Birch’s golden sapwood, often juxtaposed with its dark red or brown heartwood and dappled with a gently woven grain pattern make it a sophisticated and desirable choice for hardwood flooring. Stir birch’s surprising durability into the mix, and the result is an alluring option that will brighten and beautify any home.
Here at our family-run mill in Brattleboro, Vermont, working with eastern white pine is like cheering for the Red Sox. They’re both New England favorites with deep roots and a long history underfoot. For more than 250 years, eastern white pine has been the flooring of choice in this region.
Eastern white pine’s humble charm is perfect for a casual home. The species’ slow growth results in a tight, smooth, inconspicuous grain pattern with occasional large knots. Its color typically falls somewhere between pale yellowish tan to light reddish-brown. These attributes provide an earthy quality to any space it inhabits
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The cherry tree produces wood that is alluring. Its elegant, lustrous hues, satiny texture, and gentle, swirling heartwood character combine to create an inviting warmth in any room, from rustic to formal. And over time, it uniquely darkens with age, evolving and becoming more resonant, like a fine wine--lush, deep-red, full-bodied.
Heart pine is actually the heartwood of the longleaf pine tree. Though pine is generally considered a softwood rather than a hardwood, heart pine is different. The longleaf pine’s secret is life in the slow lane, taking 200-400 years to reach maturity.
That unhurried demeanor creates a heartwood with tight growth rings and strength, stability, and density on par with red oak or walnut. Freshly cut, heart pine possesses a yellowish hue, but over time its resin content pushes the coloring toward a pinkish tan or comfortable russet. The grain is dense with some figures, swirls, and cathedrals, and is punctuated by the occasional knot.
Installing hickory flooring in your home is like receiving a two-for-one deal. You’ll get a dramatic hardwood floor with a built-in insurance policy at no extra cost. That’s because hickory’s color variations and striking grain pattern are part and parcel of the hardest, most durable domestically harvested plank flooring available.
So, you can breathe easy when your mother-in-law begins doing the tango in her high heels in the living room, or the kids break out the hockey sticks and puck for a game in the upstairs hallway. The floor will handle it and continue to look new for generations.
Here in Vermont, maple trees are serious business. Our sugar maples produce the finest (and sweetest) pure maple syrup on the planet, and we’re proud of it. So much so that the maple has been deemed the official state tree of Vermont. But aside from making our pancakes taste great, our maples are also the source of stunning hardwood flooring.
Maple’s predominantly straight, subtle grain and rich amber hue brighten and enliven any space, providing a crisp, airy feel that leans toward contemporary design aesthetics. Paired with its formidable durability, maple will brighten and enrich your home with natural elegance for several generations to come.
White oak’s characteristics and capabilities are legendary. This slow-growing, broadly spreading, majestic tree demands attention both for its physical stature and for the wood it produces. The inherent beauty imparted by the wood’s color and grain patterns have made it a long-time favorite for the interior finishing of houses, including flooring.
At Vermont Plank Flooring, we foster that beauty by milling visually dramatic quarter sawn and rift sawn white oak options (in addition to plain sawn). And we’ll produce it to your specifications, for your project, and at an affordable price.
Oak trees are ubiquitous. In fact, more than half of all hardwood-producing trees in the United States are oaks. With such a plentiful supply, it is no wonder that red oak, along with its sibling white oak, are the most prevalent domestic hardwood flooring choices.
But there’s more to that popularity than simple abundance. Red oak is laden with appealing qualities—including its strong aesthetic character, its durability, and its chameleon-like adaptability to virtually any décor. If you are looking for something unique and unusual, look elsewhere. But if you seek a timeless classic, red oak may be just the ticket.
Found predominantly in the eastern United States, the black walnut tree, from which most hardwood walnut flooring is derived, grows at a slow pace to a height of 75–125 feet and a spread of 50–75 feet. When harvested, its wood is treasured for its practicality and beauty.
At Vermont Plank Flooring, we accentuate that beauty by selecting and harvesting only the healthiest, fully mature trees grown sustainably in small, family-owned woodlots. We then mill those trees to create wide-board planks of exceptional quality specific to your project and your specifications—all at affordable prices.
White oak, along with its sibling red oak, are the most popular species for hardwood flooring in North America. White oak’s reputation, though, begins in forests and fields throughout the eastern third of the United States where the tree is highly esteemed for its beauty and stately eminence.
Officially deemed America’s national tree, as well as the state tree of Maryland, Illinois, and Connecticut, the white oak wears its honor well. It grows straight and tall within the forest canopy, and when out in the open, it spreads its limbs broadly, sometimes producing a crown that is wider than the tree is tall.
Whether driven by the historical connotations, the authentic vintage aesthetic, or the mindset of sustainable re-use, interest in antique and reclaimed wide plank flooring is flourishing.
After having served their communities well for a century or more, many 19th- and early 20th-century barns and mills are reaching the end of their productive life or are being retired due to changing demographics and economic realities.
Before demolition, we carefully harvest wooden beams, floorboards, and siding from these historic structures and give them the opportunity to provide perhaps another century of productivity and beauty—this time as flooring in your home.
At Vermont Plank Flooring, we take the recipe for engineered wood flooring and dramatically improve upon it. We fuse the highest quality materials and then stir in the most advanced technologies to create wide plank engineered flooring that is far superior to the industry standard.
By slicing hardwood into thin plies, and then restacking them with the grain running in alternate directions, you create an incredibly strong and stable structure. Top that with a layer of your chosen locally sourced hardwood (or premium pine) species, and you have flooring that is as beautiful as it is sturdy.
We mill of our wide plank flooring to order, and frequently have overages after large jobs. We are pleased to offer these to you at the discounted rates below! Priced and sold as complete lots, these special overages are unfinished unless otherwise noted, prepackaged, and ready to ship.
Sustainability
Vermont Plank Flooring is committed to sustaining our valuable forests and maintaining the earth’s precious ecosystem for generations to come. Striving for ecological balance makes sense on many levels. From a business perspective, we rely on the earth’s bounty for our products, so it is in our best interest to be stewards of the planet.
From a broader, ethical perspective, we believe it is our duty to champion our planet’s health by minimizing our impact however we can, and by working exclusively with forest owners and material suppliers who can be trusted to do the same. It’s simply the right thing to do — for our business, for the quality of our products, for the earth, and for our children, grandchildren, and future generations
At Vermont Plank Flooring, we strive for quality in everything we do. Our products are highly functional and exceedingly beautiful, which is enough for most companies to proclaim their superiority. But we believe that a quality product, like a stable stool, requires the critical third leg of sustainability. Because if that beautiful and functional product only lasts a few weeks, or poisons you when you use it, or creates damage to the environment when produced, it is difficult to argue that it is truly excellent. When you purchase flooring from Vermont Plank Flooring, you know you are getting an incomparable product of the highest quality – exquisitely beautiful, superbly functional, and exceptionally sustainable.
We keep another eye on the future by sourcing our lumber from woodlot owners who commit to sustainable forestry management practices. Harvesting selectively cut, mature trees provides us with the highest quality raw material from which to mill our flooring, a critical starting point for a spectacular finished product.
Those practices also sustain the health of the forest, allowing for the regeneration of the woodlot and the ecosystems woven within it, and safeguarding high-quality raw materials for decades and generations to come. That’s why it’s called sustainability.
At Vermont Plank Flooring we continually strive to reduce our ecological footprint. We source our raw materials from as close to our mill as possible, thereby reducing trucking emissions. We actively source and sell flooring milled from reclaimed materials harvested from homes and buildings scheduled for demolition. We recycle and actively seek ways to reduce our waste.
And we are proud to be powered 100 percent by our own 317-kilowatt rooftop solar array.