We have put together a video showing off our reclaimed flooring operation and products. The video shows how reclaimed beech with sports lines can be laid as lifted to create contemporary floors. It also shows our gorgeous Whiskey Barrel Flooring, and how the wood is sanded and restored to its former glory.
View more videos on [...]
Special Feature: Why Reclaimed Flooring
September 15th, 2010Reclaimed Oak/Maple Herringbone Floor for £12.77 a Square Meter
August 13th, 2010Herringbone is a parquetry pattern (pictured below) which can be made with blocks of 2 different wood species for an extra special effect. Buying enough blocks to create such a beautiful floor is normally an expensive affair, but we are currently selling some top quality oak and maple blocks for £12.77 per square meter.
We [...]
Read the rest of this entry>>>5 Reasons to Buy Reclaimed Flooring
May 13th, 2010Reclaimed flooring is creating quite a storm at the moment, in fact it is one of my most frequently updated Twitter streams. Here are five reasons why so many people are buying reclaimed flooring:
1: All the Benefits of New Wood + Some of Its Own
Reclaimed Beech in Artwork Floor
April 24th, 2010Regular readers of this blog will know that we sell reclaimed Junckers Beech Sports Flooring with the sports lines still in place. As we are the UK’s largest sports flooring contractor our stocks of reclaimed Junckers Beech are more plentiful than any other species or brand. Most people want the floor to be sanded; to [...]
Read the rest of this entry>>>Reclaimed Floors with a Difference
April 20th, 2010Reclaimed flooring is undoubtedly the main choice for those who want to have a hardwood floor, but who also want to do right by the environment. But it is not the only choice.
One of our main reasons for selling reclaimed flooring is that we want to do our bit for the environment, and as such [...]
Reclaimed Flooring is all the Rage
April 15th, 2010Reclaimed flooring is currently one of the most popular products in the world of wood flooring. That is, taking reclaimed as a species or a brand; it is as or more popular than each individual species and brand we currently sell.
This is undoubtedly because t he world is becoming more and more eco-friendly and [...]
Reclaimed Flooring: A Piece of History
April 10th, 2010As most of you will know, Reclaimed Floorboards.com is a blog run by the staff of Mckay Flooring, the UK’s largest independent wood flooring company.
Mckay Flooring’s commercial contracting division has worked in some of Scotland’s most prestigious and/or historically and culturally important buildings. Buildings like: Edinburgh Castle, Culzean Castle, the University of Glasgow (est 1451), [...]
Reclaimed Floors: What’s the Catch
April 5th, 2010Reclaimed hardwood flooring is arguably one of the most beautiful flooring products known to man, but it is also very expensive, both in terms of cost to the user and to the environment. Reclaimed flooring has all the benefits of wood flooring, with apparently none of the downsides, but does it have any downsides of [...]
Read the rest of this entry>>>New Reclaimed Teak Now in Stock
March 24th, 2010Oh my god, I am soooo excited. We have just got in some new reclaimed flooring and it is absolutely incredible. Reclaimed Teak from the Barca Tapas restaurant in Glasgow’s Princess Square (see left).
Read the rest of this entry>>>I’ve Bought Reclaimed Flooring, What Now?
March 16th, 2010Buying reclaimed flooring is not like buying new, reclaimed flooring from Mckay Flooring comes in exactly as it was lifted; nails an aw. It needs to have all the nails removed, it needs to be sanded, depending on preference it needs to be finished (stained) and it needs to be sealed. To some people this [...]
Read the rest of this entry>>>