Our Devon wood flooring is part of a traceable process carried out here in the county of nature. We source our trees predominantly from the South West of England and use them for beams, cladding and other products through our sister company UK Hardwoods ltd. However, our flooring timber is sourced mainly from local Devon and Cornwall estates and well managed woodlands. All of our flooring is certified through Grown in Britain too. Here we discuss the importance of keeping our tree purchasing local, and what it means for our customers.
Buying trees for our Devon wood flooring involves Tom, owner of Coppice & Crown, visiting them in the woodland where they have grown. Tom will meet the forester on site and discuss the tree’s life story, and how they have come to be sold. Some trees will have blown over, whereas others will be part of an active management plan for the woodlands. Buying local trees in Devon gives Tom the opportunity to visit the trees himself and assess their quality, whilst building relationships with the estate foresters.
If the trees are purchased, having been of the high quality needed to produce our Devon wood flooring, then they will be delivered to the yard and sorted into lengths ready for sawing. Our customer base is spread across the UK. However, knowing that your flooring has had a low environmental impact is important to both us and to you. In our drive for sustainable production, we try to reduce travel lengths, which is yet just another reason for sourcing our trees locally for our Devon wood flooring.
When sawing, each pack produced is given a tag number to identify the woodland or estate that the boards have come from. The packs contain boards of all the same length from the same woodlands. These boards go on to produce our renowned extra wide and extra long floor boards up to 4.5m in length and up to 14” wide for our luxury Devon wood flooring.
Oak trees that grow in Devon, grow in a different way to those that grow in a warmer climate. The Devon and Cornwall Oak trees have a higher percentage of character and undulations in them, which is subsequently used in our Heritage Oak flooring. Our Classic Oak flooring still encompasses the landscape of Devon, with pippy character shown in most boards, but the boards are planed flat and have no undulations. Both Ash and Chestnut too have a different grain to them, making our Devon wood flooring distinct and natural.
Customers from all across the UK enjoy our solid wood flooring. We can send some of our gorgeous samples in the post, but if you are local to our sawmill and showroom, then please come and view our range of flooring samples and Devon wood flooring. Currently our flooring ranges are produced from trees grown in Clinton Devon Estate, Devon, Pentillie Estate, Devon, and, Escot Estate, Devon.
