5" Pitched Pine Floorboards (New)

jinx9000

Hello,

My original house has pitched pine floorbords from 1890's. My extension has carpet. I want to rip the carpet up and put down some pine floorboards so the old and the new interate more.

The pitchpine in the original part has been replace over the years as boards fell to time so its a bit of a mishmash, which is fine.

The reclaimed pitchpine is a bit too expensive. I believe its around 50 a sq yard? So thats 500 for the bedroom.

So, the quaetion is, where would I get some new pitch pine floorboards, 5" wide and with quite a few knots (to somewhat match the original)

Any suggestions on good suppliers. I'm in city centre. Also,c an I get these cut to a depth which I require, so that the florrs bords will flow into eacvh other without having to lay an underboard in the extension part.

Thanks,

Bob.

PS. I'm heading off to B&Q this weekend but maybe theres some suggestions which can help me out.

mad m

Have you tried Mac Salvage in Kilmainham, they always had pitch pine down there at a reasonable price.

riclad

Theres 2 or 3 old type salvage shops ,on richmond street south,
they have old doors, wood, planks, from old houses , from memory theres 2 on the left, one on the right .
I was there about 2 years ago.

jinx9000

thanks for the replys. weird, im nearly sure i was down macsalavge few years back. the 50 euro a yard is a price i believe the victorian salvage company will be charging. ill do some foot work this weekend.

if anybody has any info on new boards (that will match the old) that would be great too!

riclad

Can you post pics of the floorboard s you have , i,ve got some old boards .I have no idea ,what they are made of , 40 years plus old.
they have never been painted.
i dont know what pitched means in regard to a floorboard.

red sean

riclad wrote: »

Can you post pics of the floorboard s you have , i,ve got some old boards .I have no idea ,what they are made of , 40 years plus old.
they have never been painted.
i dont know what pitched means in regard to a floorboard.

Open to correction, but I seem to remember being told that very little pitch pine was used in the last 50 years or so. Deal took over. I was looking for some about 20 years ago for a restoration and could only get salvage due to old measurements.
This might help you identify it:
http://www.woodcomponents.ie/timbers/pitch_pine.html

http://www.google.ie/search?q=pitch+pine&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Fcp&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=np&prmd=imvnsfd&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=_lPiT9CBBInEtAbK-aBw&ved=0CHkQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=665

mathepac

riclad wrote: »

i dont know what pitched means in regard to a floorboard.

Pitch pine floorboards are named after the tree(s) they come from. A dense high-resin content board, it has good strength and lasting properties but usually has knots. Traditionally these boards were of a roughish finish as befits their harvest age, 100 -300 years ago.

riclad

my boards look like this,
http://www.salvo.co.uk/images/userimgs/44378/Victorian-pine-floorboards-6-3-4-inch_67049_1.jpg
but in much better condition to pic,
probably pine ,but not pitch pine.
i have seen, old derelict houses ,where you could walk in and take the boards,ie before the boom there were houses abandoned ,empty in dublin.

jinx9000

ok, please belive me, im not trying to sell these chairs to you guys

but i have a photo of the actual floorboards which im trying to match to in this ad

thanks,

bob.

http://www.adverts.ie/furniture/two-1970-s-kitchen-chairs-f-b-paint/1764435?notification=4bbbc990f5f14cb2eb5440026c73cfdf-1339968542

riclad

i posted 4 close up pics of 1 floor board here,
I just opened a new flikr account ,today,as i cant attach my phone to my pc.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishriclad 4 pics are set to public.
measured 1 board ,8.5 inch wide,
I dont know if they are pine .might look better if they were cleaned.
i used flikdroid app to upload to Flikr ,very easy to use.
i notice my boards all have knots in them.

jinx9000

^thanks for the pictures.

i went down to mcsalvage and got some good info. all the old pitch pine boards are ususally 6.25 inch wide.

so my 5" boards are prob some replacement boards from the 60's/70's. I only have 5 original 6.25inch boards left upstairs. so basically any cheap 5" board will do as its all a mix-mash anyways.

prob have to go to a timber yard to get these cut to 5". B&Q off the rack boards are 4.25 inch.

Prices:

McSalcage

6.25" Reclaimed Proper Pitch Pine cleaned and sanded €40 per 12ft lenght (these looked the business)
6.25" Reclaimed Pine cleaned and sanded €20 per 12ft lenght

B&Q

4.25" T&G Pine €11 per 12ft lenght (cheaper in a pack of 5)

red sean

Go to a proper builders suppliers (not a diy store ala B&Q) and have a look at their deal t+g floor boards. Will be a lot cheaper than a diy store and probably the same as what you already have.

Stove Fan

I went to my local builders merchant and bought their red deal new boards. The merchants sorted out all the clean ones. I fitted them and just stained them, no sanding. I bought about 70sqm. The cost was reasonable. Can't remenber the price but so many cents a foot.

They did pine with knots which was cheaper and red deal. They havent warped, cupped or shrunk in the 18 months so well happy.

Try your local builders merchant.

Stove Fan:)

paddy147

Builders Providers for the win here.

Had to replace some floorboards myself before,and a few lengths of 20mm thick red deal boards from the builders providers did the trick nicely.

A tin of wood stain and you wont know the difference.

jinx9000

thanks for all the help.

bob!