Flooring - Building Heirloom Spaces

Flooring is another specialty of CGI, providing custom flooring for that special room in your home, or even for the whole house. We work with you to find just the right wood for your project, and mill the lumber to your specifications. We also produce an Antique Heart Pine Flooring product that you can see here: www.heartwoodflooring.com.

We have several products that are not found in flooring stores, such as random widths, mixed species, and authentic antique heart pine. We are also working on a new flooring technique known only in the Scandinavian countries that involve a special way of milling that is unique and produces a memorable floor.

Another thing that is hard to find in mass produced flooring is character. We can help you select for character in your flooring, emphasizing knots, defects, grain patterns, or historic markings in antique wood, if desired.

	Closeup of Antique Heart Pine Flooring Installation

If you are trying to match an existing wood floor in your home, we can source that for you, and mill it to your specifications. We have access to high quality red oak, white oak, hickory, and Antique Heart Pine that make beautiful flooring. We have even produced flooring from Red Cedar!

When selecting a floor for your home, there are several things to consider:

• Wood Specie
• Finish
• Width
• Square footage
• Installation

CGI can help you work through these considerations, providing samples of flooring in various species and widths, and provide examples of the various woods for your consideration.

Here is a link to a successful flooring installation of 100+ year old Antique Heart Pine:

CGI will mill your lumber or ours to flooring of your specifications. If you don't know what specs you want, we will help you determine that based on the look of the flooring you desire. The specifications need to include:

• Specie
• Type of Flooring (nail or glue down, T&G or straight sides)
• Width of face
• Random width or all the same, or mixture of widths
• Lengths - Random or certain lengths
• Amount of character desired - such as knots left in or cut out, historic markings left or taken out
• Moisture Content
• Thickness
• Center Match or one face only.

These specifications will help us produce the flooring you desire for your home. Come by and visit us or call for an appointment to discuss your flooring project.

Above "Dirty Top " flooring immediately after installation - this floor will be sanded to smooth the floor, though not entirely taking out the milling marks and rich patina coloration of the floor.

For something completely different, consider what we call "Dirty Top" flooring. Also know as "high patina", this flooring is made to show as much historic use as possible. We have found that for historic flooring, everything is within 1/8" of the surface. We call this the patina layer. We barely skim this flooring with our planer, just to level things up and preserve as much of this rich patina layer as possible. The floor to the left shows the original circular sawing marks left by a saw from a previous century. Years of use shows through and adds a richness that is hard to duplicate with new wood.

For a "rough" floor look, such as for a trophy room or lodge, this type of floor is hard to beat.

Another specialty product we can provide is wide flooring. We don't mean 5" width, we mean 8" plus sizes. Up to 12" in width! This wide flooring can be milled from antique heart pine beams and installed to make a beautiful, unique, ageless floor.

If you have beams you want to have milled into flooring, bring them to CGI. We can denail them, resaw them and mill them into beautiful flooring for you! Or we can locate beams for you.