[jyl]

Picked up fir flooring at a reclaimed & salvage place today. They didn’t have any original fir floorboards, because the moment they get any, it is bought up. Apparently demand for the original stuff is way way more than the supply.

So they started milling tongue and groove fir flooring from the reclaimed lumber they pull from deconstructed old houses. They can only make them 3” wide, not the most common 3 1/2”, but demand is big anyway. An architectural firm almost cleaned them out recently, bought 1,000 sf and wanted the most distressed looking boards, the more nail holes the better. Anyway, the stuff was $7/sf so my little haul was $75.

Wait, you say, that’s too narrow! Actually I measured my floorboards and they are 2 1/4” wide. So narrower than typical. I’ll rip these down on the table saw.

I don’t know if it will match. It is old lumber, but newly milled. Well, it’s got enough nail holes to look authentic.