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I have a 1.5″ red oak dining room and hallway which has been professionally finished and is still beautiful but those planks have long since been discontinued as they were used from about 1948 to 1952 (when the 2.5″ planks began to be used en masse). On the back of these original planks, it says “Hurtsboro” (a mill in Kentucky at the time).
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If you are trying to match solid planks, (not laminate) go to Frost Hardwoods and they can mill you just about anything you like. Unlike Lumber Liquidators and other flooring places, Frost is a full service mill.[/quote]Thanks for the tip, XBox! I’ve got some extra boards I’ve sanded down and can take them down there for advice!
It would look so much better if I could actually match the floor that I already have. My house was extensively remodeled back in the nineties by the previous owner, adding over 700 sf (new white paper) and thus some of the old floor had to be removed.
My 1.5″ solid plank floor (of the mid-century era) will most definitely cost more to install than the 2.25 – 2.5″ planks today, due to more nailing required (it’s more tedious). In addition, it would have to be professionally finished, using an electric floor buffer or professional application of polyurethane. I had a well-known wood flooring person here in town (the one who gave me the $4400 estimate just on my LR alone) tell me a few years ago that if he was able to get them milled for me at all, it would likely be in a place like Kentucky and I would have to pay $220 (just for enough for a ~360 sf LR) just to have them shipped to me and then they would have to sit in my garage for 2-4 weeks in unwrapped bundles to “acclimate” before being installed.
That’s a lot of time, money and hassle, imho. I know where Frost is and I’ll visit them but I suspect I would have to order enough for the rest of the house at once from them to lower the price since it will be milled just for me.
