Woodbank's reclaimed wood materials reflect the character, beauty and durability that simply isn't available in new wood. By definition, reclaimed wood is a post-consumer resource, and has the weathering, wear marks, nail holes and stains, and other unique signs of its previous life as an Industrial Revolution-era mill, barn, water flume, even wine and beer vats and water storage tanks.

Why Use Reclaimed?

• The re-use of post-consumer wood materials helps to preserve virgin forests.
• Wood saved from well-used but no longer useful buildings has a depth of character and beauty that can't be duplicated by new wood.
• The careful dismantling of large structures often yields very large dimensional lumber and especially wide and long planks unavailable in virgin wood.
• A managed deconstruction process provides retraining and jobs for skilled workers in the area.
• Some wood species is now only available in the form of reclaimed materials.
• Old-growth timber is generally denser, straighter and more stable.
• Reclaimed wood is air dried for 50 to 150 years. Air drying or seasoning prevents further checking after installation.
• Wood procured out of a managed dismantling project prevents significant waste.

Demolition, the more common method of removing a building, is the destruction of most or all of a structure by bulldozer, wrecking ball or explosives. Using this method, a smaller crew can clear away an existing building more quickly and inexpensively, but the result is massive amounts of wasted, unusable material destined for the landfill.

Deconstruction involves the carefully managed dismantling of a building with the goal of preserving valuable building components, including exceptionally large dimension timbers and flooring planks no longer available in new wood.

Some of our available reclaimed materials are sourced out of Woodbank-managed deconstruction projects, which involve programs such as worker retraining, environmental impact studies and mitigation.

Engineered Flooring with Reclaimed Components:

Engineered flooring can be an ideal solution for many residential and commercial projects where solid wood flooring is too expensive or problematic. Woodbank offers engineered flooring which combines a superior quality, pre-finished reclaimed wood surface with a high-tech substrate.
 

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