Category Archives: salvage

Forest Salvaged Wood from Stone Source

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Stone Source offers a unique range of forest salvage wood from blighted butternut and culled sugar maple trees. The Spalted Maple is harvested from some of Vermont’s oldest maple sugar orchards where over time due to the decrease in sap production they are culled from the orchards. The spalted effect is created by accelerating the aging process it is then processed to reveal the black spalt patterns. There is random streaking and a range of colors in this beautiful wood. To highlight the tap streaks on the surface of the wood on the Tapped Maple the tap holes are filled with colored resin offering a unique alternative to traditional wood products. Continue reading →

Beetle Kill Pine Tile from laNeva

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laNeva exclusive tiles have added several complimentary tile products to their original handmade ceramic tile line. The company has partnered with Ryan Schlaefer in Colorado to produce the exclusive and outstanding Beetle Kill Pine Tile using the reclaimed waste wood from trees killed by the Northern Pine Beetle. The beetles leave an enzyme in the wood that results in an extraordinary streaking that turns the graining blue, gray, purple, or even rust colored.  Continue reading →

Campground Blue Pine from Sustainable Northwest Wood

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Campground Blue Pine is a unique and beautiful material for flooring, wall and ceiling paneling and furniture. It can be any species of pine tree that acquires a natural blue stain after being infected by the Mountain Pine Beetle. These beetles are infecting forests in the American West at epidemic rates with Ponderosa and Lodgepole Pine the dominant evergreen species being affected. Sustainable Northwest Wood is proud to partner with small mills that are salvaging beetle-killed pine trees from public parks and campgrounds where the dead standing trees pose a risk to human users. Continue reading →

Juniper Decking from SNW Wood

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Restoration Juniper Decking from SNW Wood is a beautiful, distinctive and long-lasting alternative to cedar, Trex, imported tropical hardwoods like ipe, and other decking options. It is made from untreated Juniper wood harvested during grassland-restoration projects in Oregon’s high desert. Juniper contains natural oils that make it more rot-resistant than cedar or redwood, so it provides an alternative to pressure-treated wood decking. Continue reading →

Antique Tobacco Oak Flooring from Historic Woods

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This antique oak flooring product from Historic Woods is reclaimed siding boards from tobacco drying barns. The barns not only provided excellent conditions for curing the tobacco leaf also they nicely preserved the combination of red and oak siding. The ExposedGrain flooring material is essentially smooth since most of the weathering and color has been removed to allow for the rich graining to show. Continue reading →

NyloSheet and NyloDeck Composite Product from Nyloboard

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Nyloboard is a composite board composed of 100% recycled carpet fibers, VOC-free resins and and is sustainably produced. The board is a green construction material that can be used just like traditional building material.The NyloSheet wall sheathing panels are impact-resistant and impervious to moisture, mildew, mold and termites. They have been approved for use without the need for additional moisture barriers and offer endless possibilities for applications requiring strength and rigidity. Continue reading →

Encaustic and Terra Cotta Tile from The Reclaimed Tile Company

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The Reclaimed Tile Company is Europe’s largest supplier of antique Encaustic tiles and antique Terracotta brick flooring from Spain, Italy and France.The Encaustic tiles, composed of cement and powdered marble, originally were installed in homes across Spain as a symbol of wealth. Unfortunately, today there is a limited quantity of these lovely almost two hundred year old tiles available. Continue reading →

Water Pipe Redwood Siding and Paneling from Terramai

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This beautiful wood has been reclaimed by Terramai from a massive old redwood-stave water pipe that was built in the 1920s to carry water in Southern Oregon.The wood is Sequoia clear, all-heart redwood in deep burgundies, browns and amber with some black patina showing. The wood has a shiplap profile with a 1/4″ reveal, has occasional nail holes and surface seasoning checks. Continue reading →

Greenstar BLOX Building Material from Mason Greenstar

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Greenstar BLOX is an energy efficient and environmentally friendly building material developed by Mason Greenstar. The material is composed of recycled short-fiber cellulose from newspapers, phone books and lottery tickets plus cement and a two part organic admixture. Currently the material is being produced in a 10” x 14” x 4” block replicating the traditional adobe size block. Continue reading →