About Us
We specialise in stripping doors and furniture,
and dust free floor sanding. In fact, if it’s wood and painted
or varnished, we can deal with it.
 The Old Pine Company is a family-run business with a range of specialist
skills (see below). Based in the heart of Hampshire, the business
has been run from our workshops in Swaythling, Southampton for the
past 22 years.
The Old Pine Company specialises in reclaimed
flooring and reclaimed
doors. As a one stop shop for your old pine needs,
we also make, repair and reproduce fireplace surrounds from mahogany
and oak, we sell reproduction
and original reclaimed fireplaces, knobs
and knockers, and we offer metal
polishing, paint
stripping and floor
sanding services.
Old pine is our speciality, but we also work with
oak and other timber. Old timber (especially pine and oak) is fully seasoned, making it perfect for beams,
doors, panels and floor
boards in particular.
The UK is one of the world's largest consumers of timber
and paper products. In the UK each year we consume about
50 million cubic metres of timber and paper products, double that
used by India. Our per capita consumption is one of the highest
in the world, yet only 15 per cent is produced domestically, which
means we import the largest amount of wood from tropical rainforests.
As a result of our over consumption of timber and paper, diverse
natural forests are under threat.
Say Friends Of The Earth, “There is clearly a requirement
on the UK to decrease its consumption of primary wood products.
This could be achieved by consuming less, switching to secondary
wood products (such as recycled paper and timber) and the
greater use of agricultural fibres, especially by-products.”
To read more click here.
Reclaimed (recycled) wood is available by pulling up existing wood
floors and reusing them, whole beams from old warehouses can be
reclaimed, and fire-damaged doors can even be recycled.
- Its environmentally-friendly, not only because
its recycled, but because wood conserves energy (It takes 15”
of concrete to equal the insulation qualities of just one inch
of wood.)
- Reclaimed wood or secondary wood helps with the need to reduce
consumption of primary wood products helping sustainability of forests.
- Reclaimed pine is easier to colour match than
new wood.
- Old wood has a history of its own and enjoys
character marks and patination not found in new wood. Basically,
old pine looks better than brand new pine.
- Solid wood floors have an extended life span.
- Wood flooring and furniture require fewer chemicals to clean than other floor coverings and they don’t trap
dust and fumes in the fibres or grow mold in the grout.
- New furniture tends to be mass produced and is made from new
soft timber which can have many knots.
Tel: 02380 570 666
Mobile: 07973 671245
Email: info@oldpinecompany.co.uk
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