Home Grown Lumber 230 Heath Road Center Conway, NH 03813 603.447.3800
The Janka rating on hard red pine flooring is 1630, harder than white oak (1360), white ash (1320), northern red oak (1290), american cherry (950), southern yellow pine (870), our eastern white pine (420), and numerous others woods traditionally used for flooring.
Our Patented Process allows the character of the wood to shine through. You want high quality wood flooring and want to purchase it from a lumber company that cares about the environment. At Home Grown Lumber, we have the exclusive license to a cutting edge patented process which upgrades wood that would usually go into the waste stream into a premium flooring product. Until now, most Knotty Pine wasn't usable because of unstable knots. Our Patented Process upgrades the wood to a premium boutique product suiable for high-end floors. We are able to stabilize the knots before the final planing, allowing the beauty and character of the wood to come through.
We Recognize the Importance of Sustainable Milling Practices
Recognizing the importance of implementing sustainable milling practices since 2006, Home Grown Lumber has worked in partnership with Pine Tree Power, located in Tamworth, New Hampshire. All waste is trucked locally to Tamworth and used to generate power for the Tamworth facility's customers. The result is wood ash that has been reduced to less than 1% of the volume of the original wood chips.
As the Pine Tree Power web site explains, "The wood ash from wood chip fired power plants is an environmentally sound, nutrient rich soil supplement. It sweetens soil by reducing acidity, and supplies calcium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium and various trace elements essential to plant growth. Under a state approved plan, the ash that Pinetree Power produces is available to local farmers with ten or more usable acres. Private haulers deliver free ash to farmers, who spread it on fields or plow it into the soil. This encourages growth while keeping farmer's costs down and crop prices competitive. The New Hampshire Bureau of Public Health and the U. S Department of Agriculture regulate the ash program."
Whether you are building your own home or designing someone elses, contact our sales staff to discuss using our recovered wood for your environmentally responsible flooring project.
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