The Best-Grown Wood
A Cross-Section of America’s Best
All of Carlisle’s wood comes from trees that were grown in ideal environments — where soil and climate allowed each individual species to flourish and produce superior wood.”
Most American hardwood trees are highly adaptive. You’ll find them in one form or another all the way from Canada to Florida and Texas. But it is primarily in New England, the upper Midwest, the Ohio River Valley and portions of the Appalachians where cool, short summers allow these trees to slowly grow to their maximum heights and circumferences. This translates into tighter, denser grains and optimum beauty for woodworking, cabinetry and especially wide plank flooring.
Like the trees themselves, the relationships we’ve developed with local foresters and sawyers are a result of slow growth. It has taken us time to get to know the right people, those who share our environmental vision and goals of producing the best hardwood boards possible from forests grown and managed in a totally sustainable manner. These much-cherished relationships mean that no matter which Carlisle hardwood you choose, it will be the choicest and most beautiful that America can grow.
Carlisle Wide Plank Floors Features & Benefits
| Feature | Benefit |
|---|---|
| Every Carlisle Wide Plank Floors floor is created one board at a time by skilled New England craftsmen whose hands and eyes are dedicated to bringing out the full potential of every plank. | More than just something to walk on, our floors are examples of American folk art and reflect a unique, custom-made look that mass production cannot replicate. |
| All newly sawn woods have come from trees harvested in a fully sustainable manner by small local sawyers with whom we have enjoyed longstanding relationships—because we believe the surface we create inside your home should reflect and respect the surface that Nature has created outside your home. | Our floors are eco-friendly in every sense of the term. By carefully selecting only fully mature trees which would otherwise enter a stage of slow decline, forests are allowed to continually renew themselves. We never practice clear-cutting or do business with those who do. |
| We use the absolute finest Eastern White Pine and Southern Heart Pine grown in America today. | Dale Carlisle founded our company by authentically recreating the traditional Eastern White Pine wide plank floors of colonial New England. To achieve this, he demanded only the very best boards that cold, slow-growth climates could produce—and then carefully cured them for up to a year. Today, we have applied these same principles to all our woods, including our outstanding Southern Heart Pine, which is specially grown for us by a third-generation forester in Alabama. |
| Our hardwood floors look better because they come from hardwood trees that grew better. | Outstanding grain, heart wood, and coloration are the hallmarks of all our hardwoods—Hickory, Ash, Cherry, Maple, Birch, and Oak. This is because all are sustainably grown and harvested in ideal growing climates that allow each species to thrive and mature slowly. Each board is then subjected to our proprietary grading process so that you get the best of the best. |
| Our antique woods have received full FSC certification and qualify for LEEDS points. | All antique recycled flooring is not procured and processed the same. Ours has been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council as being 100% post-consumer Reclaimed—meaning every board is certified antique—taken from historic structures slated for demolition. These woods have also received FSC Chain-of-Custody certification, which means they have been in our exclusive care from the time of dismantling to the time you buy them. As such, they qualify for LEEDS green building points. |
| Boards are offered in widths ranging from 3" to 20" and in lengths of up to 16' | Our floors provide a true wide-plank look, with fewer joint lines and more eye appeal. Board widths may be mixed and matched if desired. |
| We offer floors in complete range of custom finishes. | Our floors come pre-finished with our exclusive Custom Coat™ stains and top coats, which we have taken years to develop and perfect. They not only have a rich, hand-rubbed look but also can be easily maintained for a lifetime of use with our available re-coat products. All the while being environmentally friendly, with zero or near zero VOCs. |
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