RECLAIMED FLOORING · SORREL HOLLOW · EVERY BOARD ALREADY LIVED ONCE
We un-build the old world carefully, so your rooms can be floored with a century of it — nail holes, scars, grain and all.
In the yard this month: 4,100 board-feet of 1920s heart pine from the Alderport gymnasium, 600 ft of chestnut, and one barn’s worth of pine the color of tea. yard@bramleyfloors.example
Supply, mill, lay
The reclaimed rate card
Buy the boards from the yard, have us mill them to fit, or hand us the whole room — the card prices each stage on its own line, and the yard is open Thursdays.
Sorrel Hollow, 2026
Reclaimed oak, supplied$9.50 / sq ft
Graded, de-nailed, moisture-checked at the rack
Milling to your joists$3.20 / sq ft
Rip, tongue and groove, relief-cut underside
Installation, laid and fastened$7.80 / sq ft
Blind-nailed, face-nailed where the era demands
Sand and hardwax-oil finish$4.60 / sq ft
Two cuts, two coats, the grain kept open
Patch weaving, board by boardfrom $21 / board
Gaps, radiator scars, the wall that came out
Salvage survey of your demolition$0.90 / sq ft
What your floor is worth before the excavator arrives
Where the boards come from
Gymnasiums whose maple heard forty winters of sneakers. Vats and tanks from distilleries that flavored the wood on purpose. Barns whose pine carries the shadows of a hundred hay loads. We buy whole floors at demolition, de-nail them by hand at the yard, and keep provenance cards with every stack — your floor arrives with its own biography, and it is a true one.
Six floors from the last two seasons — supplied, milled and laid by the same crew that pulled the boards out of their first buildings. Provenance cards included; ask about any of them and the answer will name the demolition.
The yard, and the policy
Every stack is stickered, dated and moisture-metered weekly until it sells. Boards are graded in daylight, and the grade on the rack is the grade that arrives — the worst board in the bundle is the one the price is honest about.
Nail holes stay
We fill nothing that tells the truth. Ferrous stains, foot-worn edges, the occasional boot heel mark — they are the biography you bought. Structural damage is another matter: a board that cannot carry its century gets replaced from the same era, and we say which ones.
Process
Salvage to floor, the whole road
Whether the boards come from our yard or from under your own demolition, the road is the same one.
Step 1
Survey & source
We measure the room, read the joists, and walk the yard racks with you — or survey your demolition floor for what is worth pulling.
Step 2
De-nail & grade
Every board is de-nailed by hand, metal-scanned, graded and stickered. Provenance cards follow the stack.
Step 3
Acclimate & mill
Boards live in your rooms until the meter says so, then rip, tongue and relief-cut to your joist spacing.
Step 4
Lay, sand, oil
Blind-nailed where the era allows, face-nailed where it does not; two cuts and hardwax oil, the grain left open to age again.
The salvage ledger
Our architect specified new wide-plank everything. We brought her to the yard, she ran her thumb over the gym maple for a while, and the specification changed that afternoon. The floor is now the room.
Honest answers
Reclaimed wood is not for everyone, and pretending otherwise would be the one dishonest thing on this page.
Is reclaimed wood more expensive?
The boards cost more than new commodity oak and less than new wide-plank anything. Laid and finished, a reclaimed floor lands within ten percent of a good new floor — and arrives a century ahead on character.
What about bugs and old finish?
Every board is metal-scanned, kiln-baked or long-air-dried, and any historic finish comes off in the milling. What survives the process is wood, full stop — the yard has never shipped a live surprise.
Can it go over radiant heat?
Most of it, yes — the milling adds relief cuts and the meter decides the rest. Quartersawn stock takes radiant best; we will tell you honestly when the stack you love is the wrong board for the job.
Do you buy floors from demolitions?
Yes, and the survey is on the rate card. We bid on the salvage before the excavator does — owners are often paid for a floor they had budgeted to pay someone to remove.
Or write to the yard
Tell us the room and the square footage; we will tell you what is in the racks that would fit it, with the provenance cards attached.