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Our Style Each Wide Plank is Carefully and Artistically Handcrafted from Beginning to End and are Hand Finished on all Sides and Edges for Stability! Pictures of a Recent Kitchen Floor Project Pictures of a Recent Antiqued Black Floor Project
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Old World Craftsmanship with Modern Finishes for Easy Living
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Hand Cut Planks & Hand Rubbed Finishes |
We strive to deliver a look reminiscent of traditional wide plank floors from the 1700's. In fact, we have installed our flooring in several Bucks County, PA homes dating back to 1730. The look of genuine handmade planks 11 inches wide and over 11 feet long can't be matched by "plank" floors consisting of 4 inch wide boards averaging less than 24 inches in length. Each plank is hand shaped using authentic old world tools and techniques to scrape the ends and edges just as they would 250 years ago.
Our look is foot worn without being primitive!
100% Hand Made in Pennsylvania Other large flooring companies claim their flooring is hand crafted. Their huge machines wouldn't fit in our shop! Every wide plank (over 6 inches wide) we make goes through 10 woodworking steps, all by hand with modern and traditional HAND tools. It's not unusual to find two or three of our craftsmen in our shop going over a plank to determine the correct side and the best way to bring out the natural characteristics.
Hand Finished! 95% of our planks are sold pre-finished. Whether it is our OSMO natural oil or a stained and top coated finish, every coat is hand applied and hand rubbed to achieve a patina that can't be matched by high speed spraying equipment. The Proof! Look on the back of our finished planks (and samples) and you will see a lot of stain coated hand prints (many of them are mine!) We love this work and we do it as good or better than any one in the country!
"Anyone who lives in a true Colonial home steeped in the past will appreciate the craftsmen at Colonial Plank Floors"
Philadelphia House & Home Magazine
Solid Kiln Dried Oak not Plywood!
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| Each wide plank is hand cut using 18th Century tools |
Our planks are cut from 3/4 inch cabinet grade, solid one piece oak boards, not from glued-up pieces made to look like wide boards.
Our floors are attached on the surface of the planks with 18th Century rosehead nails. This is historically consistent with methods used in colonial homes. The nails have remarkable holding power and have heads with a smooth rounded nub on top (called a rosehead) that polish with traffic to give your floor the timeworn look of an old floor.
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| Our craftsmen are skilled woodworkers and are also musicians, artists and writers. |
Our Prefinished Planks Are Solid Oak, Not Plywood!
Our prefinished planks are very different from anything else being offered in the flooring market. They are all handmade from solid 3/4 cabinet grade oak. They range from 7 to 11 inches wide and from 3 ft to about 12 ft in length, depending on your application.
Prefinishing has many benefits. We can control the process to ensure proper bonding between coats to guarantee a durable finish. The planks will stay in balance and remain flat right from the start. Our polyurethane, Basic Streetshoe XL, has won the floor of the year award 15 of the last 17 years!
It is also far easier to work with prefinished planks. You don't have to worry about stains, water spots or tool marks getting trapped under the finish. You can walk on the floor moments after installation.
We Make This Easy for the Builder and the Homeowner!
As part of your order we will prepare an installation plan showing the layout of each row by width.
We strive to duplicate the best old world colonial flooring with modern materials to make it durable and easy to live with. Because of the way we do it, even a novice do it yourselfer can get professional results!
Distressed and Antiqued Painted Surface
For a truly
unique colonial finish we will antique your floor using a 12-step process
to give it a timeworn historic appearance.
We hand work the painted surface selectively 'wearing' traffic areas almost back to bare wood. We even add distress markings that would come after centuries of use.
Next, we hand apply a stain to 'age' the paint and work it into the roughed in areas. We then finish it with commercial sealer and two coats of polyurethane for extra durability.
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