Antique Wood Floor

Signature Antique Flooring
Antique wood flooring has a variety of edges. It may be old original edges as in our Signature Antique Flooring (definition below), or a straight line ripped square edge, or tongue & grooved (T&G) or a ship-lapped edge. The bottom of the antique wood floor boards may be back relieved or just skip planed. The most original looking flooring would have an old original top face and two old original edges as in our Signature Antique Flooring. Only a wood floor removed from a 100 year old building would be more original looking than our Signature Antique Flooring.

When antique wood floors are re-installed, they may be fastened to the sub-floor by face nailing, blind nailing, gluing, or any combination of the three methods. An original antique wood floor would not normally be installed by the screw and plug method common during the mid 1900’s. Sanding of Signature Antique Floors would never be done with a drum sander. By sanding with a screener sander or a buffer sander, you will be able to preserve the sculptured or non-flat look of an original old wood floor.

Using Dutchman patches rather than cutting out open holes or major defects in antique wood floor is another way to get that authentic aged look. Finally, the best finish is still the old well tested tung oil finish that gives that soft in- depth look to the surface. We recommend Sutherland Wells polymerized tung oil finishes.