Clover Lea 3/4" x 5" Southern Yellow Pine

Comments about Clover Lea 3/4" x 5" Southern Yellow Pine:

It was pretty easy to work with and I was impressed with most of the boards. The warehouse guy damaged my floor with his fork lift and I didnt realize it until I unloaded it but I am still giving it 5 stars.

Comments about Clover Lea 3/4" x 5" Southern Yellow Pine:

I was looking for a product I would not mind creating "defects" in and would fit in with the turn of the century saloon I had built to house an antique collection. That said I did not want perfect from the mill lumber as I was going to be adding "repair" pieces, making gaps and cracks, etc to mimic something that has been down a while. This product was good for that and being I bought between 72 and 100 sq every week what I got from the mill was usually always different in some regard. Thickness and even width being a 1/16 to an 1/8 different. Grains and cuts also seemed to go the spectrum you can with a board. If your planning on doing large area's I would recommend getting it all bought at the same time to avoid that. I preferred it. You will have to square cut each board end as it comes ratty. I had some waste but not a bunch as the look I wanted made it work except for 3 badly cupped pieces Those I ripped down for finish boards near the wall. I also ended up needing to screw and plug some boards that got creaky but I was going to anyway. Oak plugs in pine jump out nicely! I also screwed and plugged every board on the outsides. You can get pine plugs. If you want perfect flat it takes some extra sanding but I just finish sanded to open things up before staining. Lots of boards with different thickness throughout. The different grains combined with my stain choice ended up making it look like an old tavern floor complete with stains just perfectly ! Varathane golden oak.

Comments about Clover Lea 3/4" x 5" Southern Yellow Pine:

I used this product to repair and match a 90 year old floor after removing a wall. It took some work to fit it into the existing floor (thanks to my carpenter) but once it was in, it looked great. I took a piece of the old and new floor to Riccardi's and found a very good stain (Zar) to match the old flooring. It looks great and I am happy with the purchase. Thanks

Service and delivery comments:

Service at the store was great. Knowledgeable and friendly.

Comments about Clover Lea 3/4" x 5" Southern Yellow Pine:

Found the milling is lacking quality. The ends of the boards have no tongue and groove milling so they have to be butt joined. Because the boards are 5" wide there tends to be squeaking when the joint is stepped on. If the intent was to just butt the ends they were not square. The square of the ends was random, so I ended having to cut each end to get the joints to butt evenly.
I understand this product naturally has numerous knots and that adds to the look, but many of the knots had fallen out making the sections unusable adding to the total number of the already numerous end joints.

Service and delivery comments:

Delivery to the store and pickup was good from Lumber Liquidators.

Comments about Clover Lea 3/4" x 5" Southern Yellow Pine:

Bought 1000 s.f. for bedrooms in an old mill duplex. Cost was about $1800 with taxes. Expected more knots and shorter boards at this price. Bundles were made up of 7 foot boards and a 5 footer/2footer. About 50/50. Ends have to be squared, but went down quickly. Looks great!

Comments about Clover Lea 3/4" x 5" Southern Yellow Pine:

Based on previous devious order a little more than required. Could use more variety of lengths. Many large boards were bowed. Order on line and was told not available for pick up or delivery until February got a call the week before christmas to say it was in when did I want it delivered. That caused a bit of an issue.. Overall floor went down well more waste due to condition or boards and too few length variations . Treated pine with a wood condition then stained Good results we used varathane wood conditioner and varathane wiping stain color was Golden mahogany used in 100+ year old
House. Satisfied ,

Comments about Clover Lea 3/4" x 5" Southern Yellow Pine:

NICE TOUCH IN OUR OLD HOUSE

Comments about Clover Lea 3/4" x 5" Southern Yellow Pine:

Let's keep in mind that this product is priced very inexpensively and you get what you pay for. I installed 900 square feet of this in a 1928 farmhouse restoration. We did not want the large knots but needed the width and wanted yellow pine to match what was original. The first order had bundles with two 7' lengths and varied shorter lengths in between. The second order we received had only one 7' length per bundle and six miscellaneous shorter lengths to make up the 12 sq foot bundles. Almost all of the full 7' lengths were warped or of such poor quality due to full thickness imperfections that they had to be cut into shorter lengths. Installed lengths ranged from 6" to 60", but the ends are all flat cut so the seams were staggered and the finished floor had no knots larger than a dime. There were some variations in the thickness from board to board so that quite a bit of sanding would be necessary to have a perfectly flat surface. We opted to use a palm sander and round edges. The finish somewhat resembled a hand scraped texture. Finished with Zar stain and urethane. In the end our real waste was 21%, but the cost still beat most pre-finished options by a long shot and the wide look is great.

Comments about Clover Lea 3/4" x 5" Southern Yellow Pine:

only one board warped yes the ends aren't square but if you just cut each end and put the boards on the floor then the nailer can just slide them to himself just like putting down any other hardwood flooring. Iplan on doing a true whitewash finish with three coats of bono floor finish. did the whole upstairs three rooms and hallway with staircase opening to trim out in 16 hrs two guys

Comments about Clover Lea 3/4" x 5" Southern Yellow Pine:

We used this 5" pine flooring for a painted floor in a bedroom 2 years ago. We had it professionally installed and we had very little waste. I filled any open knot holes with wood filler and sanded floor with small electric hand sander, then vacuumed and went over with tack cloth to clean well. I painted each knot hole with white pigmented shellac and after proper drying time my husband painted entire floor with white pigmented shellac as a primer coat. After light sanding and cleaning, we added 2 or 3 coats of white porch paint, drying completely between each coat and sanding/dusting as needed. We added 12 inch diagonal checkerboard design in another color. This floor was labor intensive but we have been extremely pleased with it for our cottage decor and it cleans easily. The first winter boards contracted causing small cracks between boards that were previously tight, but that just added to the charm of the floor. It does dent pretty easily so we are careful with moving heavy furniture. Hope to do more floors with this wood in the future either painted or stained. Great look for economical price!