Antique floorboards

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Antique floorboards designate parquet - and floorboards from aged wood.

Wood from old barns and homesteads is traditionally used for production. Real antique floorboards made from salvaged wood are therefore very expensive, and the demand exceeds the yield from these sources. In addition, these woods are often polluted .

For this reason, a new form of industrial production has found its way: The long aging of new wood is shortened. For this purpose, the wood is aged by manual or mechanical treatment and provided with signs of use. The antique look is emphasized by smoking , lime , pickling or lye .

Mainly it is solid wood of oak trees used. The thickness of the boards is usually between 14 mm and 22 mm, the width between 70 mm and 220 mm. Different manufacturers offer different length systems, whereby the elements can also have tongue and groove connections .