Custom Caribbean Heart Pine Flooring
Bayou Rustics is essentially a bridge between commercial contract finishing, and the homeowner. Our one and only manufacturing partner is Premiere Finishing & Coating, located in Reidsville NC. PFC is a USA owned and operated flat-line factory finishing company. Known as a contract custom finishing company, Premiere has state of the art equipment with the capacity to finish long and wide flooring. Bayou Rustic allows homeowners to purchase floors for their home using our pricing, it is truly revolutionary for those wanting prefinished flooring.
Our small batch wide plank prefinished Caribbean Heart Pine is produced using the leading waterborne finishes available today. These include products from: Troffer® Industrial Coatings, Bona® Industrial Coatings with Bona® High Durability Finishes Including but not limited to Bona Traffic® UV, Bona Traffic® UV Ultra Matte, and Bona Traffic Natural™ UV finish. WOCA® Industrial Coatings, and Rubio® Monocoat™.
Character Heart Pine Flooring
Our 5 1/8 Character Grade Southern Yellow Pine floors offer character and color variation that only comes with age. The color variations and ‘character’ result…
Our 5 1/8 Character Grade Southern Yellow Pine floors offer character and color variation that only comes with age. The color variations and ‘character’ result…
Our 5 1/8 Character Grade Southern Yellow Pine floors offer character and color variation that only comes with age. The color variations and ‘character’ result…
Prefinished Caribbean Pine
Flooring Grade: Vintage, Fawn, Natural
Natural, a true matte finish which really lightens up this floor, yellow/pink sapwood stands out on what is very "neutral" floor. To be clear, this…
Fawn offers a tinted version of the Natural Finish which brings out the lighter warmer tones. To be clear, this is not the same version…
The Vintage finished Caribbean Heart Pine blends a light, medium and dark brownish / red, a classic finish you will see DIY use on Southern…
The difference between Caribbean Pine and Caribbean Heart Pine resembles the relationship with Character grade and New Heart Pine.
It is all about heart content, the percentage of heartwood to be more precise. Caribbean Pine will contain up to 50% heartwood, in 1-7’ lengths while Caribbean Heart Pine contains a minimum 85%, in 2-12’ lengths. Another way to express the differences would be Old Growth versus New Heart Pine, either way works, and the differences are not hard to see when compared side by side. The problem occurs when both are called Caribbean Heart Pine, one sold prefinished, the other unfinished. We tell the truth about what you are buying, without bias or incentives. Bayou Rustic has a homeowner driven solution; we offer a custom finished Caribbean Heart Pine and the “#2” grade Caribbean Pine, factory prefinished with three options:
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