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Old Barn in the USA
We need our living trees to help clean our air and sustain our life here for many generations to come. The purpose of this web site is to support and promote the recycling and re-use of building materials with the goal of reducing our overall consumption of our precious forests.
You can buy and sell old wood products and services, watch relevant videos & read interesting articles on old wood.
There is plenty of old recycled building materials in antique buildings, old barns and farm buildings that can be put to good use on new construction projects. Some of the wood in these century old buildings is some of the most beautiful wood in the world and has many applications. Much of the wood in these buildings is decades old and has come from old growth forests. As a result this wood has unique characteristics that new wood just can’t provide.
December 17, 2009
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Reclaimed White Oak in Alabama
Limited supply of rare white oak. Good for all kinds of oak applications.
January 31, 2010
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Urbanwood: A Better, Sustainable Option for Removed Trees
We know that wood disposal can be challenging and expensive for arborists and managers of urban and community forests. You’ve heard that logs from city trees can’t be used for anything but mulch or fuel. This simply isn’t true.
Our partners can show you how city trees can still be made into everything from rough lumber for maintenance projects to beautiful, high-end flooring. All it takes is a little advance planning, and we can help you work out an efficient system to sort and handle logs so that your removed trees can find new life.
Southeast Michigan’s Urbanwood Project conserves resources, supports local jobs, and can reduce wood disposal costs for operations like yours. Show your support for creating a more sustainable Southeast Michigan by joining the Urbanwood Project. Visit their website, urbanwood.org, to learn more.
January 29, 2010
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Reclaimed wood Flooring from Keystone Vintage Lumber
Keystone Vintage Lumber supplies a wide range of antique, reclaimed, and recycled wood for architectural, historical, and flooring applications. They understand how to source and grade repurposed lumber so you can make the best choice for your project and for your world.
Reclaimed Lumber Species
KVL ‘harvests’ lumber from a variety of sources. Old buildings and structures slated for demolition provide a great resource for antique wood. In some cases, this very usable resource might simply have become landfill. With the proper handling and reworking, it can now become flooring, furniture, or even used as structural elements again.
Web Site: www.keystonevintagelumber.com
January 29, 2010
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1882 Historic Santa Fe Railroad Building Lumber
1882 Santa Fe Railroad Lumber
Buy recycled lumber from, 1800’s from Bahm Demolition Recycling Sales.
January 1, 2010
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Recycled Meranti Wood from Malaysia
Sometimes called Philippine mahogany, this wood isn’t mahogany at all. Generally found in the Philippine Islands, as well as Malaysia, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia. Meranti is a wood of global commercial importance. Applications include plywood, plywood paneling, cabinets, and hollow-core doors as well as light structural framing, moldings and trim, and low-cost furniture although, Meranti has little durability in outdoor projects.
Malaysian Dark Red Meranti (DRM) is a well known timber in Europe particularly in countries like The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and the UK where it has gained a reputation as an excellent material for the production of high class joinery products especially door and window frames, facades and doors.
Automation Concepts is a Malaysian manufacturer of wooden products such as Meranti sawn timber, finger joint wood profiles and laminated board , wooden doors, cabinet doors, furniture parts, 3-layer finger joint wood profiles, timber & plank etc.
Learn more at Automation Concepts
January 1, 2010
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Recycled old teak wood from Indonesia
Old Teak Wood from Indonesia
These reclaimed/recycled teak wood are collected from old Dutch houses, village houses and old bridges from Indonesia.
They are in very good condition where the nails are removed and the damaged areas are cut. They have various sizes and they can be used to make furniture and for various other applications.
Buy from ISL INTERNATIONAL
January 1, 2010
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Where to buy old wood
There are many places to buy old wood. If you are interested in purchasing old wood, please contact the business below to discuss your project needs.
Old Barn Wood Company – Old barns dismantled, recycled and reused as timber beams, siding, wide plank flooring and special architectural uses.
Old Grain Reclaimed Wood Specialties – Reclaimed wood to assist architects, builders, contractors and homeowners for use in their projects.
Old Wood Workshop – Supplier of reclaimed and resawn antique wood flooring in chestnut, oak and pine plus salvaged vintage building materials including hand-hewn beams and other architectural antiques.
Classic Antique Wood – Company reclaims wooden beams from old buildings and remills it into heart pine flooring, custom doors and mantels, stair parts and various trim pieces. Located in North Carolina; will ship anywhere.
Kauri Craft – Furniture made from 35,000 year old Kauri wood, by artist Jaap Tediek.
Nina’s Rustic Primitives – Handmade reproductions specializing in old wood signs, antiqued shelves, folk art prints, distressed Americana style furniture and home decor
Old Masters Wood Finishing – Interior wood finishing and refinishing products including stains, varnishes and removers.
This Old Wood Pile – Hardwood flooring manufacturer and sawmill producing hardwood lumber, figured woods, burl products, and exotic strip and plank hardwood flooring.
State Auctions – Every month thousands of properties become repossessed by banks, state, federal and private organizations through various seizure and bankruptcy laws. Those properties could be purchased through auctions at a fraction of their actual market value! Find one for yourself today or purchase real estate to build up your net worth!
December 18, 2009
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Repurpose Rustic Barn Wood
Recovered wood, or wood salvaged from old barns, buildings, and other places, has become more valuable than ever. This wood is often used in many everyday products—from furniture making to home construction and renovation. Learn the basics of salvaging wood from a reclaimed wood specialist and give something old a new life.
December 18, 2009
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Reharvesting the Urban Forest
The Reclaimer, LLC began when Gary Schwirblat was working as a contractor in LA and realized wood from demolished buildings in LA was going into landfills ground up for fertilizer, releasing large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. Plus, the wood was mostly 100 yr old Douglas Fir, superior quality to new growth wood.
Reclaimed wood is the greenest building product available and its beauty is perfect for the design goals of business and homeowners. Gary just began saving the wood because his childhood summers spent study conservation made it difficult for him to see it go to waste but. Finally his stockpile was so big he had to do something, so he partnered up with Eric to find end users. The more wood The Reclaimer sells the more they keep out of landfills. The natural environment of reclaimed wood, there is nothing else like it!
December 18, 2009
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Wastecycle Wood Recycling
Wastecycle offers discounted disposal prices for wood which is segregated from other waste at source.
December 18, 2009
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Reclaimed wood project
Hennessy reclaims the past and preserves the future by, reusing 80 year old heart of pine lumber from a 1925 schoolhouse during a LEED certification renovation. This Reclaimed Pine came out beautiful.
December 17, 2009
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Old Lumber Reborn
This Pulse video travels to North Carolina to visit the Whole Log Lumber mill, which purchases wood from demolition sites, fires, and trash heaps in order to revive and resell it. This place is the fountain of youth for worn out lumber, and the high quality of the semiprecious hardwoods that are routinely uncovered takes business away from rainforest-clearing loggers. It’s enough to have sticklers for fine and rare wood muttering about the ‘good old days.’ But when we follow the wood back to Brooklyn, we find a restaurant under construction, using reclaimed wood from the Whole Log mill to finish a beautiful dining room. Easy, old timer. They’re still making ‘em like they used to.
December 17, 2009
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The value of old wood
An old crumbling barn or outbuilding may be an eyesore to some, but it could be worth big money. Old barn wood has high value in the reclaimed wood market. Here are a few basic tips for estimating the value of old wood.
December 17, 2009
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Metal Detection in Reclaimed Timber
I came across this security device recently and to all intents and purposes, it is exactly the same as the metal detectors sold in woodworking shops for 2 – 3 times as much. This video is a brief look at the detector in use.
December 17, 2009
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