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The trees were giants. Mature chestnut averaged up to five feel in diameter and up to one hundred feet tall. Many chestnut trees were recorded at eight to ten feet in diameter. Trees cut after the chestnut flight bare a distinct difference than trees cut before, the variance between the two range from no worm holes in the earlier chestnut to a softening of the wood fiber turning the wood from a dence hard wood like that of oak to a more soft wood similar to that of pine in the later.
Wormy chestnut the best wood for lumber. Loggers tell of loading entire railroad cards with boards cut from a single chestnut tree.
History the origins of a recycled wormy antique chestnut floor. Colonial Lumber recycles much of the rustic wormy chestnut floors found in many long standing American buildings. Much of these prized recycled wormy chestnut timbers, chestnut floor rescured from old wormy chestnut barns, and chestnut flooring from factories, warehouses.
Recycled or reclaimed or antique wormy chestnut is used primarily for flooring and home building and is often used for paneling, architectural detail, chestnut cabinetry and furniture. Chestnut once functioned as one of the primary building material because of it’s strong resistance to the elements.
Today much of the once plentiful wormy chestnut is only available through recycling. In the early 19th century barns were often built using wormy chestnut or either woods found on the property.
Chestnut Wainscot or Wainscoting and flooring
Colonial Lumber our unique 3/8” thick (T&G) interlocking wood planks are used for wainscoting, paneling and flooring. Wainscoting traditionally is applied using either beadboard or decorative panels (such as a wondendoor might have) are also common.
Built by hands that took the time to do things right. Today, at Colonial Lumber, we carry the same beliefs and family traditions and quality. Our Wormy Chestnut Flooring.
Chestnut Woodworking
Working with wormy chestnut is a real pleasure. The wood is generally moderately hard to soft and easily tooled. Making wormy chestnut our most popular choice for woodworking, furniture, cabinets, kitchen cuberts, flooring, chestnut farm tables and rustic chestnut used for decorative paneling, picture frames. Rustic wormy chestnut barn timbers share a decorative as well a structural purpose. Heavy rustic chestnut barn beams used mostly for fireplace mantels, summer beams, box beams. |
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The time worn beauty ingrained by decades of history make our antique Wormy Chestnut flooring impossible to replicate. Reclaimed Wormy Chestnut planks are milled from old barn and timber. Scattered nail and spike holes, cracks, worm holes, insect scars, and legacy saw marks give antique Wormy Chestnut flooring a rich aged character. Antique Wormy Chestnut planks are golden honey to a darker brown in color.
Antique Wormy Chestnut Flooring
For more than three centuries, most barns and homes east of the Mississippi River were made from American Wormy Chestnut.
History of The American Wormy Chestnut
According to the American Chestnut Foundation there were once an estimated 4 billion American chestnut trees in eastern forests. The American chestnut was once the heart of the forest. In the first half of the 20th century a deadly blight struck, and the chestnut tree virtually vanished from the American landscape. Today Colonial Lumber harvest from many of Americas earliest structures, the only remaining wormy chestnut in America. |
Antique Wormy Chestnut Flooring |