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• Carlisle’s Partnership with Deltec Homes

  Posted by Megan Sprague

  Over the years, we've partnered with Deltec Homes of Asheville, NC on many projects. One of the largest was the sponsorship of an Extreme Makeover Home Edition Home in New Orleans last year!

  We received this letter and photos from David Ide of Deltec Homes this week. Our floors are featured in their model home!
  

  Glen,
  I need some more Carlisle literature to put on display.   We have handed out all that I had left over from my parade from last year.   We have had so many people asking about the floors, they are truly the highlight of the house.
   
  I have attached some photos for you.  I can’t tell you how happy we are with how the floor came out. 
   
  David Ide
  Director of Customer Relations
  Deltec Homes, Inc.
  69 Bingham Rd
  Asheville, NC 28806
  1-800-368-7401
  www.deltechomes.com

   

  
   
  
   
  
   
  

  Posted on October 17, 2008 at 08:58 AM in Green Building • Hardwood Flooring • Home Decor • (0) Comments

• Carlisle Wins Green Ribbon Award for Flooring!

  Posted by Megan Sprague

  

  Building Products magazine had their first annual Green Ribbon Product Awards and Carlisle won the flooring award for our FSC Certified Antique Reclaimed Wood!

  

   Carlisle's FSC Certified Antique Reclaimed Hickory
  

   

   

  Posted on October 2, 2008 at 12:31 PM in Green Building • (0) Comments

• True Hardwood Story: Green Frontier Festival in Denver, Colorado

  Posted by Megan Sprague

  A few folks from our Denver office presented our wide plank wood floors at the Green Frontier Festival this past Sunday!

  
  
  

  Here’s the report from Kevin, regional sales manager for Carlisle’s Denver office:
  
  “This festival was a very pleasant surprise.  While my hopes were high for a decent showing I wasn’t really sure what to expect.  The fact it was occurring while the Democratic National Convention is here in Denver made me more excited at the possible opportunities.  Booths varied from acupuncturists to “zero-net energy” neighborhoods (these neighborhoods actually produce their own energy).   While organic food booths, environmentally friendly bag and clothing companies were around there were also more industrial based companies exhibiting that were focused on solar and wind power.  
  

  

  We purchased the last available space at the show and obviously had no ability to select its location.  As luck would have it we were in the busiest thoroughfare in and out of the festival.
   
  Chris Acosta and Mike Schuster were very helpful splitting the day with me at the booth.  Booth received about the same number of leads and talked about Carlisle and our Green approach to flooring very well”
  
  

  Posted on August 26, 2008 at 02:14 PM in Green Building • News & Events • (0) Comments

• Carlisle Wide Plank Floors Teams up with Warmboard and Build It Green for an education Green Seminar

  Posted by Megan Sprague

  It was an exciting event and drew sixty people to the seminar  held in Palo Alto. The 30-minute presentation format allowed for each company’s educational snippet and a thorough question and answer session—where the audience was very enthusiastic and involved.
  
  The speakers were: Amy Dryden from Build It Green (a LEED-like organization), Terry Alsberg of Warmboard, Paul Izenstark also of Warmboard (on the subject of solar heat) and Dan O’Neill from Carlisle Wide Plank Floors.

   

  

   
  John Noble, also a member of the Warmboard group, gave me these details, “We diligently held to the speaker’s 30 minute allotment, as it became clear we’d blow past the time we had committed.  We had two speakers go, then took a short bio break, and got right back to work.  We decorated the walls with some plan sets that Jennifer (Build It Green) printed- a nice array of projects and I observed many people checking them out before the start and during the break. The room was extremely attentive and packed. Excellent questions were asked, the audience was clearly engaged in the material.”
  
   “This was a very strong event. Because I spoke last, I had time to mingle and gauge the interest levels and subjects that people were in attendance to learn about. The group was very diverse with professionals, and different levels of knowledge on the various subjects. One of the most positive things was the amount of questions and interaction throughout,” shares Dan O’Neill Regional Manager of Carlisle’s West Hollywood location
  
  

  Posted on August 21, 2008 at 08:06 AM in Green Building • (0) Comments

• The Industrial Forest: Harvesting Wide Plank Flooring

  Posted by GuestBlogger

  By Albert Waitt

  Carpenters often refer to salvaged materials as coming from "the industrial forest."  This somewhat comical slang indicates a growing awareness in the building industry of the importance of recycling classic wood and lumber.  The US Forest Service reported:

  "The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that the equivalent of 250, 000 single-family homes is disposed of each year in the United States. This represents nearly 1 billion board feet of salvageable structural lumber per year, equivalent to about 3% of the current US softwood harvest. Much of the lumber available for salvage through deconstruction is from decades of old-growth harvest and represents a resource largely unavailable from any other source.  As a result, much of the wood is of higher structural and aesthetic quality (higher density, slower grown, fewer defects) than is the lumber produced today." 

  Hardwood used in wide plank flooring can be salvaged from a wide range of sources.  It has come from turn-of-the-century homes, old hotels, dilapidated mills, and even a 120 year-old, decommissioned 15 story grain elevator containing "the equivalent of an entire forest of antique, old-growth white pine in its walls."  Where once this wood might have been seen as junk and discarded or burned, it is now recognized for what it is:  An extremely rare natural commodity. 

  The wood salvage industry has expanded to harvest this bounty. The 2005 Forest Service study identified approximately 1400 businesses involved in salvaging, restoring, and building with reclaimed wood.  It is a number that has steadily climbed. 

  Demand for reclaimed antique wood has also grown as homeowners have become aware of the look and ambiance it can provide.  A National Hardwood Floor Association survey found that 56% of decorators and designers noted an increase in the demand for antique wood flooring over the past two years. 

  To meet this need, the hardwood flooring industry looks to the industrial forest.  It's there that they can glean materials that are nearly impossible to find anywhere else.  The American chestnut tree is nearly extinct, but one can enjoy the warmth it offers a home through salvage and restoration.  Old growth pine harvested from a turn-of-the century farmhouse will show a dense wood grain with a tight ring pattern that just doesn't appear in virgin lumber.  The aesthetics offered in reclaimed antique flooring are inimitable.

  Barns that were once left to fall and rot are now seen as a valuable resource.  Old houses that may have crumbled in disrepair are mined for irreplaceable flooring and fixtures.  If one wants to create a period feel to a room or home, the most effective way to do so is with the materials of that period.   Thanks to the industrial forest, the floors of the past live on today-and look as beautiful as ever.

  (Survey results are available from The National Hardwood Floor Association:

  http://woodfloors.org/consumer/contact.aspx) 

  Posted on August 10, 2008 at 01:45 PM in Green Building • Hardwood Flooring • Home Building & Contracting • (1) Comments

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