This year, Carlisle Wide Plank Floors introduces a new type of distressing technique brushed surface texture that is applied to our customized wooden floors. This process allows Carlisle craftsmen to remove the softer spring growth wood grains by using wire fibers specially designed brushes to pull it away from the plank, leaving behind the hard summer growth grains. This effect creates a textured, three-dimensional wood surface and a softer wood aesthetic by highlighting the depth in the premium heartwood.
“After making sure we got the process and product just right, we were very pleased to add brushing to our distressing surface texture options,” said Chris Sy, National Sales Director of Carlisle. “The wire brushing technique will create an more organic-looking older floor that is becoming a sought-after trend among our customers.” Carlisle perfected the technique experimenting with different wire gauges a wide variety of brushes, thicknesses and pressures, in order to create the finest boards composed of clean groove lines. Because we have worked to perfect our technique, each craftsman-made Carlisle board does not have the problematic grain pull seen in other wire brushing methods when fibers are not lifted out completely. While the technique works best on woods with greater differentiation in grain lines, such as white oak, it can be applied to all species of wood that Carlisle offers and may be combined with other distressing techniques. This new texture is initially being offered on our newly sawn Oak and Hickory wide plank flooring. This distressing brushing process authentically weathers Carlisle’s wood boards, creating natural looking reproductions of older, worn flooring. Each custom made wire brushed floor will perform the same and have the same life span as all other Carlisle floors, each capable of lasting more than 200 years. In addition to the wire brushing distressing technique, Carlisle offers customers the option of incorporating several other handmade surfaces into their wide plank floors including hand-scraped, hand-scraped edge, saw-kerf, hit or miss, and footworn and watermill. All of these options can be viewed on Carlisle’s website.
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