Why choose reclaimed?

Reclaimed lumber products offer the advantage of quality, beauty and environmental friendliness. Decades of air drying impart dimensional stability. Tight dense grain highlights unique character and patterns. Nail holes and saw marks from centuries past reveal the era of its origin. The three trillion board feet of timber and lumber harvested in the United States since the beginning of the 20th century represents an abundance of quality material that still resides in buildings and other structures. As these structures reach the end of their usability, reclaiming their lumber for today’s products eases harvesting pressure on forests and reduces landfill volume. In the Portland metro area alone, an estimated 900,000 board feet of wood waste could be diverted from landfills every year (USFS, Forest Products Laboratory, 04/2005).