How To Salvage Hardwood Floors

If you remove the water from your hardwood floors quickly and properly dry them you may be able to save the wood or most of it.

How to salvage hardwood floors.

Make sure thickness of hardwood floors is enough to justify salvaging. Most salvage yards have well maintained websites that list available materials their prices and have good photographic representations of the items for sale. Preliminary considerations for salvaging wood floors. 3mm of reclaimed antique wood laid over a nine layer substrate of plywood.

Lumber longer than 6 will be easiest to salvage. If you have access to an old house with wood flooring that s being demolished you may want to salvage the floors. The first 24 hours are critical and the longer the wood is in contact with water the worse the damage will be. Nevertheless reclaimed hardwood flooring is one of the most requested items at salvage yards and interested homeowners may have to be dedicated to the search.

The beauty of reclaimed wood with the practicality of engineered flooring. You ll want at least 1 8 inch of wood left on the top tab of the flooring s groove side. Hardwood floors add value to a home because of their long lasting beauty.