Recycled Maple Options for Your Home

Maple hardwood flooring is a beautiful, light-colored flooring surface that's well known for its durability. The recycled maple used in flooring is generally old stock from demolished buildings, or from the scraps leftover from standard milling procedures. For those older sources, many of the planks date back 70 years or more. These aged planks have different benefits over newer hardwood, and can be repurposed in many different ways.

Maple hardwood floors add an earthy undertone to any house. They are beautiful eye candy for those that enter your home, which will have everyone envious of the style you created. They can be very durable, if properly maintained. Everything takes a little TLC to give your hardwood a long, beautiful life. You may have to stain reclaimed maple after a few years, especially in high-traffic areas or if they have water damage. The grain pattern that Maple offers hides the normal wear and tear we all experience in our daily lives. But sometimes you need the extra coverage and protection only a stain can offer. Luckily maple takes stains very well! Hardwood woods floors are a solid investment for your home because even as home trends change, wood flooring remains a sought-after choice. The most popular hardwood floors in the United States remain oak and maple. Both woods add long-lasting value and style.

The maple tree especially the sugar maple and the sycamore maple make excellent choice for hardwood flooring. Traditionally maple was a popular choice of flooring for public buildings and multistoried warehouses in the States. Because maple is a hard and durable wood with a Janka Hardness of 1,450 pounds, it is often used to make gym floors and bowling alleys. For this reason there is plenty of reclaimed maple and antique maple flooring on the market. The advantage of antique maple flooring is that it is more dimensionally stable than new maple flooring because it has had many years to acclimatize to relative humidity levels. Also antique maple flooring, if carefully removed, often has less dents, marks and scratches than other types of reclaimed hardwood flooring. Reclaimed hardwood flooring with lots of blemishes is often described as ‘rustic’. For some ‘rustic’ means full of charm and originality, for others it means ‘damaged’, I call it Character!

What about recycled maple for more contemporary and modern themed homes? Using scraps of maple taken from flooring mills, you can find recycled maple flooring in both soft and hard varieties. Each plank features multiple strips of maple glued together to create a truly exotic looking floor without the high price tag.

Maple hardwood flooring has a unique look. It has a subtle and distinctive grain and ranges from a pale white to a soft red color. Reclaimed maple flooring can really transform any room into something historical and amazing all at the same time.




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