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• Not your average floor staining project

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  We just loved this innovation in floor staining, used on one of Carlisle’s White Oak floors, done in 6-inch wide planks. The floors were rift and quartered as well. This is the floor in a home builder’s own home, and the lovely pattern on the floor was created by Bill Corcoran of Neighborhood Hardwood Floors in nearby Nashua, New Hampshire.

  What do you think? So far these boards don’t have a finish on them. We’ll show you those photos a little later.

  Posted on August 10, 2010 at 03:04 PM in Hardwood Flooring • Home Decor • (0) Comments

• High praise from Low Impact Living

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  
  For some other views of how customers feel about their Carlisle flooring, check out the Low Impact Living website.

  It rates green products and gives Carlisle five out of five everygreen trees.

  Three customers added their comments to the site talked about “impeccable” customer service, beautiful hickory flooring, and praise that Carlisle was “one of the best companies I did business with while building my new home.”

  Posted on August 6, 2010 at 03:16 PM in Green Building • (0) Comments

• Pine mixed well with contemporary styling on the prairie

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  A homeowner in Portage, Wisconsin combined a contemporary Prairie-style designed home with original grade Eastern White Pine and the results are stunning.

  The six-inch wide planks ran right to the floor to ceiling windows. For the outside decking, the same width planks were used and aligned, thus giving the floor a continuous look right to the outside.

  The house used 1,500 square feet of the pine, done in Oatmeal Stout stain and finished with Tung oil.

  Here are photos of the whole stunning building project, courtesy of the builder.

  Posted on August 4, 2010 at 04:25 PM in Hardwood Flooring • Home Decor • (0) Comments

• Rendered speechless by antique flooring

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  A homeowner contacted Carlisle’s Peter Switzer to say he was “speechless” about the 5,300 square feet of Antique Heart Pine flooring.

  Wrote Peter in an e-mail: “He said ‘if the boards were much wider they would probably look like sheets of plywood!’ He was stunned at how wide and long the wood floors were.He was blown away by the floor for grain, color, widths and length.”

  This particular wood — the wood that built America, by the way — is today reclaimed from factories, warehouses and other old buildings throughout the East and Southeast. It is over-concrete and radiant-heat approved.

  Peter went on to say that the customer was full of praise about how the folks at Carlisle outdid themselves.

  [That’s a sample of our Antique Heart Pine to the left.]

  Posted on July 30, 2010 at 03:04 PM in Customer Stories • Hardwood Flooring • (0) Comments

• Environmentally friendly engineered floors? Yep

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  This article from EcoVillageGreen.com raises questions about whether or not engineered floors can be environmentally friendly. At Carlisle, our engineered floors offer customers the added convenience of engineered, with the bonus that they are indeed environmentally friendly.

  The writer of this article offers questions for the consumer to ask to determine if an engineered floor is a good choice for the environment. First, does it have FSC certification? Carlisle does. The Forest Stewardship Council endorses Carlisle’s products.

  Engineered floors require the use of adhesives in between layers? Hardwood floors that emit low levels of VOCs, or Volatile Organic Compounds are recommended. Our engineered floors contain no measurable amounts of harmful VOCs, including formaldehyde.

  Here’s the list of requirements we had for our engineered floors when we first began to make them: *Create engineered floors that used exactly the same premium woods and one-board-at-a-time quality control as our solid floors. *Assemble the engineered floors using a formaldehyde free process. *Make sure that when walked upon, they had the same feel as our solid floors – unlike the spongy feel often associated with floating or snap-down floors. *Make sure they were highly suitable for both concrete and radiant heat applications

  We think we’ve succeeded on all counts, and we’ve served the environment well along the way.

  Posted on July 22, 2010 at 04:08 PM in Hardwood Flooring • (0) Comments

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