Red Hills Lumber produces a range of custom wood products and provides custom sawing and millwork services. Our focus is high-quality, older forest grown longleaf pine. Most of our trees comes from our own property, which is sustainable managed through timber salvage operations and single-tree selective harvests, in addition to small amounts of salvage on other local properties and even sourcing trees from tree and land clearing services when the quality is right. The age and growing conditions yield a tightness of grain and density not found in planted pine. While we specialize in flooring, we can produce a wide variety of profiles suitable for all uses. We also carry small volumes of locally salvaged hardwoods in a range of species and source and mill other logs and lumber as needed. Almost all products can be customized, and although shipping and setup can be pricey on small volumes we do not have minimum order sizes. We ship nationwide and internationally.
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Red Hills Lumber vertical grain is quartersawn with grain angles between 45° - 90° forming an elegant pinstripe pattern on the face of the board. This cut also maximizes the surface exposure of denser "late wood" (the darker growth rings), creating an even more durable surface. Compare the tightness of our naturally grown vertical grain with others.
Red Hills short leaf pine flooring, like all of our products, is sustainably milled from old growth natural forests, not planted pine tracts. Many of the trees from which it comes are over 150 years old. As with our longleaf, this results in a higher heart content and denser grain.
Red Hills Lumber Longleaf Southern Yellow Pine wood flooring has both vertical and flatsawn grain. It comes in two grades: clear and knotty.
Red Hills Lumber offers a full range of heart pine interior products including stair parts, custom molding, paneling, and fireplace mantles.
Heart pine has been highly prized for flooring since it was installed in Washington's Mount Vernon and Jefferson's Monticello. The tight, highly patterned grain and amber and copper hues of Red Hills' heart pine continue that long tradition. A few months of exposure to light deepens the colors, with continued exposure bringing out the full patina.
Our wood comes from our own forests, which are under permanent conservation easements and are sustainably managed to preserve the longleaf ecosystem and its biological diversity. See the "About Us" page for more information.
Much of the small supply of heart pine reclaimed from old buildings or logs sunk in rivers and commands more than $12 a board foot. Red Hills Lumber Company sustainably harvests comparable lumber from mature, forest-grown longleaf pines and sells it at a considerably lower cost.
Tour any historic home in the U.S. and chances are that you will be walking on centuries-old longleaf pine floors. Longleaf has a Janka hardness rating of 890 - significantly harder than eastern white pine (380), ponderosa pine (460), and other southern yellow pines (690-790). With a Janka of 1225, longleaf heart pine is even harder, and virtually equivalent to red oak (1290).
