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Pre-finished at Renewal Ranch near Conway Arkansas

 

Installation of a Pre-Finished, hand scraped wide plank engineered floor at Renewal Ranch, a service and outreach center to help men break addiction at Conway, Arkansas.

We were contacted by one of the regular builders that we normally work for in Conway, Arkansas about helping at a work day at a very worthwhile organization.   Renewal Ranch is an organization which helps men try to break the cycle of drug and alcohol addiction.   With donations and lots of volunteer help, they have succeeded in raising the funds to secure a very nice piece of property outside of Conway and have constructed the first of several planned homes that will be used to help in this effort.

Home Depot had graciously donated about $10,000 worth of pre-finished hardwood floor for the project, and had also donated a “work day” for about 25-30 of their employees to help install the floor in the facility.   Most of these employees didn’t have any hardwood  flooring installation experience, and the builder recommended us to come down and oversee the workday, and finish up the project after the workday was done.   There was a very good turnout for the work day, and even with a lot of volunteer help, quite a bit of floor got installed on the work day, and good food and fellowship was had by all.

This project is now finished and being used by Renewal Ranch, and hopefully with further donations, more can be completed in the future.   For more information about Renewal Ranch or to help their worthwhile cause, you can go to their website at therenewalranch.org

 

Hand Scraped “Heart” Hickory Floor

 

These are photos of a Hand Scraped “Heart Hickory” floor that we did in Texas in 2009.   Heart Hickory is hickory that has been graded out at the mill has 100% Heart wood.  It is the “brown part” of the hickory, so there is no white wood whatsoever.    In some cases, it nearly looks like walnut, but is just a bit lighter in color.  It is also very hard, even more hard that standard hickory in general, because the “heartwood” of hickory is harder than the sapwood.

In 2009, a good friend of mine who is also in the Hardwood Flooring business in Kerrville, Texas, had to have a hip replacement, and needed our help on this special 3000 Square Foot project.   We scraped this floor in our shop, hauled it to Texas, and installed and finished in a few days.   This is a special “heart” hickory, that only contains the dark wood from the hickory, none of the white wood.  It is a very hard wood, and more uniform in color than standard hickory.  This turned out to be a beautiful floor, in a beautiful home.