Recent content by redabby

Again thanks for all your replies, the reclaimed wood man says they are defiantly pine he even has some just like them at the moment from a house renovation just down the road . I've told my chaps and looking forward to having a lovely wood floor.

Thanks again I don't mind them being a pine because it will keep costs down and give me plenty of options stain or varnish.

Thanks everyone. I don't think they are oak so will let the floor men know, I think they are probably pine maybe chestnut. What threw us is the darkish red colour on the underside and the treated boards are so dark but obviously someone has coloured them in the past. I don't care what they...

Thank you it's very interesting. I've taken a couple of other snaps witch show the side, underside and knots, but i hadn't thought of chestnut . I live near a dockyard so the wood could have come from anywhere even ship timbers.

The untreated underside of the board is quite dark you can mark it with the tip of a pen if you push quite hard but where the upper part is rock hard which is why we thought it might be oak. The men who are filling the gaps thought they may be oak because they hadn't seen boards like it, and...

Hi, I live in a early Victorian cottage and plan to sand the boards in my living room area then have them filled . The boards are very wide 9.1/2 inch and dark at the moment but wont know what they will look like until they are sanded. We are unsure of the type of wood i.e. pine which i have...