What's hard to imagine though is this material was all finished on the same
line it was all milled by the same knives, okay.
Theoretically, every board here could have come from the same tree. So we see
the same density, we see the same overall color
They're just made up mainly of aesthetics.
I'm Ted cook with really cheap floors today this is a pretty exciting time for
us we are finally doing a video that shows all of the grades of wood that we
carry and our solid wood line our big manufacturer just added two more products
lines to what they're asking us to liquidate for them so we it can get a
little bit confusing but this video should take care of that. One of the
things that we've been focused on the entire time that we've been in business
is offering value a lot of times that gets construed as low price you know
what's the cheapest well there those are two completely different things really
cheap and great value are not the same really cheap is dependent 100% upon the
price great value is the price multiplied times what are you gonna use
it for? What do you want? Okay so that's what we're doing here we're going to
show you four floors that we think are an excellent value and help you find the
one that best suits what you're looking for starting with a red label this
company does does an interesting grading process the red label as well as the
Chateau oak are pulled out before the wood is finished okay the the graders
are looking at this material and for the red label they're looking for natural
defects things like small knots discoloration mineral streaks wormholes
like we see in this board all of those when the graders see that they know that
board is never going to make a select floor so they take it out they stack it
against the wall we'll get back to that later so what we get with the red label
is when you look at this mosaic yes it has shorts in it yes it has colors in it
but when we bring people by it most people prefer the red label to anything
else. So look at the mosaic what is the end product rather than the individual
boards. Okay? That's a very popular product one because it looked but that
price point you won't find that price point on a solid wood anywhere in the U.S.
except it really cheap floors the next product that we want to talk about
is also graded out before the normal run this is called our Chateau oak this
these boards won't exhibit the natural defects of the red label but you will
see some more color in them when we look at this board we see some some warm
color here we see some some heartwood over there we won't see much of the
mineral streak like we do over here we also will see much longer board lengths
this is a first quality floor there are no manufacturing defects in our Chateau
oak it's more money certainly than the red label but it's a pretty popular
product another reason people like it is it's an extreme low gloss it's a 10%
gloss compared to the 40% gloss of the other product so that's something that
appeals to more people but you know if you're looking for a floor with a little
more color in it but you really want the board length you really want the higher
quality you want the warranty then this is the floor for you like the red label
it's these are available in limited colors we typically keep them in an open
an oak natural a gun stock the mystic and maybe a gray and that's all you'll see
those run in next we want to talk about our cabin grade floors so this is what
we do are really big volume in this is this is pretty serious value as well we
right now we have the lowest cabin grade solid pricing of any flooring dealer in
the United States now I realize that's a that's a pretty big statement to make
but it's a it's a statement we're pretty proud of being able to back up when you
look at our cabin grade you immediately think wow that's clean why is it so
clean it's so clean because the discolored pieces were pulled out
beforehand okay so your typical cabin is made up of this and this with what we're
doing or what we're having this company do for us we're separating these to get
better value for the customer that's looking for the color we've got it for
the customer that just wants to save more money then we've got this okay
that's what our cabin does it offers great value for the customer that really
doesn't want as much contrast as we see in the red label but they don't mind the
short boards they don't mind some maybe a planer marker or a little chip out of
it or so this is not first quality wood it's our
red oak natural cabin great it just looks like first quality that brings us next now to our
first quality this is our Appalachian collection here this is this product
right here will represent about 60% of the tree when they cut the tree this is
what most of it looks like this is the way God made it look okay these others
are fallout from this so this is our target here we'll see no manufacturing
defects no natural defects we're going to say an average board length of 32
inches or greater yes you'll see a few shorter pieces in here but the average
board length is what how wood is graded okay so again really long boards in this
very little contrast in color that and the board length and the the bigger
warranty is is the reason that we have the first quality of the reason people
buy it what's hard to imagine though is this material was all finished on the
same line it was all milled by the same knives okay theoretically every board
here could have come from the same tree so we see the same density we see the
same overall color we're just made up mainly of as thanks
okay if you have any questions about what we what you see here or if you'd
like to see a sample now our samples do go out ungraded because there's no way
we can show you one piece and tell you that's great but if you have any
question if you want to know more about our cabin or red label our Chateau or
our Appalachian floors pick up the phone and give us a call