Creating Furniture from Reclaimed Floorboards

Nina Tolstrup's design company, Studiomama constructed this stunning cabinet from reclaimed floorboards. We're always thrilled to see such ingenuity and this masterpiece really highlights the uses that reclaimed flooring can be put to.

If you have a project that requires reclaimed wood flooring please contact us on 0845 602 7694

Reclaimed Pine Flooring

We are soon to take delivery of much sought after reclaimed pine flooring. All the more appealing is the wide boards dimensions of 185mm face width x 21mm deep. These exquisite boards have been milled from old pine beams and are sure to fly out the door as soon as the stock arrives - for this reason we're now taking pre-booking and for those that want please contact us to organise a free sample. But hurray, this particular product will not last long. More details will be posted here as soon as the reclaimed pine arrives in.

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Reclaimed Junkers Sylvaket Displays Value of Reclaimed Flooring

I don’t know how I didn’t notice before, but a batch of reclaimed Sylvaket has been added to our online store.

Sylvaket is not the name of a wood species, but of a range of Vaccuum fumed Beech by Junkers. There is also Sylvared, which is Vaccuum stained Beech, both are some of the most beautiful wood flooring products you will ever see.

Right now you can buy 1 square meter of 22mm thick reclaimed beech Sylvaket in excellent condition for just £17.02 +vat. Brand new 22mm Sylvaket is priced from £61.99  in the main Mckay Flooring store. The cheaper 14mm thick is available from £52.99 new.

If you clicked any of the links to the new Sylvaket above you will see that it comes in Classic, Variation and Harmony, with Classic being the most expensive (and arguably the most beautiful) priced from £77.99.

Not everyone can afford to pay £77.99+VAT per square meter for their wood flooring, leaving Classic out of most people’s reach. Now you can get Junkers Sylvaket and have the Classic stain applied for a lot lot cheaper.

Another glowing example of what a fantastic product reclaimed flooring is, affordable great value for money, and great for the environment.

Special Feature: Why Reclaimed Flooring

We have put together a video showing off our reclaimed flooring operation and products. The video shows how reclaimed beech with sports lines can be laid as lifted to create contemporary floors. It also shows our gorgeous Whiskey Barrel Flooring, and how the wood is sanded and restored to its former glory.

View more videos on the Mckay Flooring You Tube channel.

Popular Reclaimed Flooring Species Part I: Maple and Beech

Our love of wood flooring, and especially reclaimed flooring is known throughout the land, of course we have our favourites and we know exactly what woods will work in a particular room, and fit which budget etc.

For other people the choice of wood flooring can be overwhelming, so we thought it would be a good idea to cover the most popular species of wood flooring, and explain why they are popular.

Reclaimed Maple Flooring:

Maple is a fine grained wood with a smooth texture. Most of the reclaimed Maple you will see will have been lifted from dance and gym halls, as a result it will tend to have a thick layer of lacquer and often a dark appearance. Sand back those layers however, and you are looking at a very light wood.

Without stain Maple has an incredible shine when finished, and is excellent for making a room look bigger and feel warmer by reflecting the natural light.

In reclaimed flooring, Maple is popular for a number of reasons, but the main reasons are

History

Our Maple is mostly lifted from old schools and gym halls, many of which have rich history in the city

Availability

We tend to lift large amounts of Maple at a time, and so it is very rarely out of stock in plank form, however, we currently have some reclaimed Maple blocks lifted from the Kilmarnock Academy in stock

Value for money

The aforementioned thick layers of lacquer usually covering reclaimed Maple keeps the wood like new. This means that buyers of reclaimed Maple flooring get a nearly-new maple floor for a fraction of the cost of a new maple floor

Reclaimed Beech Flooring:

Beech is a gorgeous wood in its natural form, with so many variants in tone, and a gorgeous sound under foot. Anyone who has ever been to a modern sports hall will most probably have seen beech wood flooring, because most sports floors in the UK are created using Junkers Beech (and mostly laid and marked with sports lines by us).

Here are some of the main reasons for the popularity of Reclaimed Beech:

Cheap and Cheerful

Reclaimed Beech tends to be lifted with sports lines intact, and is sold cheaper as a result. Reclaimed Beech with sports lines is one of the cheapest reclaimed flooring products on the market

Availability

Again, we lift reclaimed Beech in bulk, and, because we are one of the UK's biggest sports flooring contractors we come across a great volume of reclaimed Beech. People tend to buy what they see and they nearly always see reclaimed Beech

Unique Designs

The sports lines are not considered a negative by everyone; designers, architects and the like have seen the potential to use the lines to create unique patterns and designs on the floor (see below)

We currently have reclaimed Maple and reclaimed Beech in stock, priced from £9.36 and £10.21 respectively. To find out more or place an order use the links above, visit our online store, call 0845 602 7694 or email

Reclaimed Flooring from Oak Whiskey Barrels

OMG, I can't believe it. I was just going through the reclaimed flooring section of the Mckay Flooring website and I realised that I hadn't written a post on the Whiskey Barrel Flooring. We covered the product on the main Mckay Flooring blog and it went national and in the sweep of that we forgot to cover it on the reclaimed flooring blog, which of course it most certainly is.

Whiskey Barrel flooring is a unique product from Mckay Flooring; our flooring specialists found a way to flatten the panels from Oak whiskey barrels and make it usable as wood flooring planks. As floors go it is absolutely incredible, in the scent as well as in the look, and we have had much interest from whiskey connoisseurs the world over.

Because of the work involved in producing such a unique product, the whiskey barrel flooring sells at £149.00 per square meter and comes in various lengths, and of course with the branding letters still intact (see below). Call 0845 602 7694 or email enquiries@mckayflooring.co.uk to place an order or find out more.

A Herringbone Oak/Maple Floor for £12.77 a Square Meter, Really?

Yes really. For those that do not know what herringbone is, it is the most popular parquet (geometric patterns), pattern, created using two different species of wood made to look like a herringbone (see below).

We have got in stock right now some oak and maple blocks that are not only perfect for creating a herringbone pattern wood floor, but that were previously laid herringbone in the memorial hall of the prestigious  Kilmarnock Academy (read here for the full story).

The image above doesn’t do the kind of herringbone we are talking about here justice, because it is single species.

Herringbone using two different species -- especially maple and oak, which compliment each other excellently –, is a sight to behold. We will try to get some pictures of it to show you. In the meantime use the links above, click here, call 0845 602 7694 or email enquiries@mckayflooring.co.uk to find out more about the oak and maple blocks.