Category: Choosing Wide Plank Wood Floors
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National Biobased Products Day- Why Wood Is Part of the Climate Solution
March 8th is National Biobased Products Day and we are tallying the reasons why it’s good to #usewood ! The original biobased product, wood has the powerful attributes of renewability and carbon storage, which make it a superior, sustainable, and environmentally-friendly material. Wood products contain the least amount of embodied energy of any floor covering…
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2023 Sawmill Tour at Hull Forest Products
Stewarding Local Working Woodlands & Manufacturing Materials for the Global Bioeconomy Join us for our 2023 sawmill tour at Hull Forest Products and come see what we saw! Learn how our Connecticut forest-based business stewards local working woodlands and manufactures wood products, including green and kiln dried hardwood lumber, wood flooring, and timbers, for the…
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The Hull Forest Guide to Styles of Wide Plank Flooring
By Mary Hull We custom mill all kinds of hardwood and pine wide plank floors to fit your look and unique style -whether the place you call home is a vintage farmhouse, a brand new home, or an urban apartment, we can make you the perfect floor. Use this style guide to inspire ideas for…
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Red Oak Flooring – Durable, Classic, and Rapidly Renewable
Red Oak flooring is beautiful and durable, and Red Oak trees are the dominant hardwood species in the United States. Red Oak is also the the most rapidly renewable of all the American hardwoods: it takes U.S. forests just .57 seconds to grow one cubic meter of red oak! (That’s less time than it just…
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Board Edge Profiles
Edge profiles or treatments refer to the amount of “reveal” on the edge of each floor board. At Hull Forest Products, we can customize the edge profile of your wood flooring or paneling. We have a variety of edge profiles for you to choose from, and while the square (snug) edge is always the most…
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2019 Sawmill Tour at Hull Forest Products
Join us for our sawmill tour! Connecticut’s largest sawmill, Hull Forest Products, will host free sawmill tours of its forest products manufacturing facility in Pomfret Center, CT on Saturday October 19, 2019 from 8 am to 2 pm. Learn about forest management, timber harvesting, and wood manufacturing, and watch as local timber is transformed into…
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Wide Plank Wood Flooring Sawn Locally in CT – A New England Tradition
Hull Forest Products of Pomfret, Connecticut, has been making traditional wide plank wood flooring since the family sawmill got its start in New England over 54 years ago. The company began as a tiny backyard mill and evolved to become the largest sawmill in Connecticut, manufacturing over 10 million board feet of forest products each…
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Hull Forest Products Makes Forest-to-Floor Wood Floors for Yale University
When Yale University new residential colleges architect Robert A.M. Stern specified rift and quartersawn Red Oak floors from Yale’s own university forests, Hull Forest Products made that dream a reality. As a woodland management service and a sawmill, Hull Forest Products was able to plan and undertake a timber harvest in Yale’s CT forest. Together with…
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Hull Forest Products Wood Floors at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show NYC
Hull Forest Products will be exhibiting its show-stopping wood floors at the 2019 Architectural Digest Home Design Show at Pier 94, 55th Street at Twelfth Avenue, New York City, March 21-24, 2019.
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Five Reasons To Love Live Sawn White Oak Floors
Live sawn White Oak floors are a customer favorite, with good reason. This type of wide plank wood flooring has beautiful and unique grain, is extremely durable, and offers excellent value. Read on to learn more of what’s to love about the live sawn cut: 1. Live sawing is a traditional method of sawing wood…