WELCOME
About US
Our Company, Salvage Antique is a reclamation Co. We specialize in reclaiming historical materials within the South Eastern United States. The buildings we salvage are usually earmarked for demolition with all debris going into landfills. Our Co. takes great pride in negotiating with contractors, property owners & developers to rescue and recover materials.
Our team has the ability to rescue and recover these materials with a low carbon impact on the environment. By way of dismantling most structures by hand. At a normal recovery rate of 98% recyclability of salvageable materials. Our professional and experienced methods of recovery have been developed for over 20 years, with over 164 reclamation projects finished. We assume in the last 20 years we have reclaimed enough lumber, the equivalent of 50,000 acres of standing forestry. This equation was generated by the U.S. Dept. Of Forestry. This equals 2,600,000 cubic yards of landfill space. In a sense Salvage Antique and it’s founding members were green before green was in.
In 1995, our founder Scott Brady purchased his first saw-mill to re-saw the timber to market recovered materials to home owners, contractors, distributors for historical preservation projects. By adding additional equipment and learning how to work with old materials was challenging in the beginning but after years of networking with companies in the industry we have obtained the skills to produce fine mill work products using only reclaimed materials.
Services
When it comes to our business, we believe in customizing for each individual customer. Listed below is a list of services we offer to our clients.
- Mill Works
- Re-sawing
- Planning
- Molding
- Straight Line Ripping
- Storage of customer materials
- Packaging/Shipping
- Custom Installations
- Pre-Finishing
- Green Projects
- Dismantling of historic buildings and structures
Services Details
The above list contains the services that we complete for our customer on an every day basis. Each one involves a detailed process as well as customizing for each customer. We have several pieces of machinery that make it possible for us to do the work that we do. We have a double gang re-sawing machine that is capable of sawing 10,000 board ft/day. Our band saw mill cuts accurate veneer slices as well as 3ft in diameter/25 ft long cants.
Our company offers storage of customer materials until it is ready to be installed. Our building is 44,000 square feet and is equipped with a state of the art sprinkler system. Along with storing, we offer custom packaging/nesting and shipping. We work with professional installers to make sure that you are satisfied with your purchase as well as 3 of the largest pre-finishers on the East Coast.
Our company prides itself in being "green before green was in". For 20 years, we have always been environmentally friendly and continue to live up to that everyday.
Products
Heart Pine 4 grades
- Low Grade. 1 - 10 wide growth rings per inch, knots, nail holes or occasional blue stains.
- Med Grade. 10 - 15 growth rings per inch, small knots, nail holes.
- High Grade. 15 - 25 growth rings per inch, small pin knots, occasional nail holes.
- Premium Grade. 25 - 40 growth rings per inch, occasional small pin knots, no nail holes.
White Oak, Red Oak, Mixed Species are White, Red, Ash, Hickory, Pine Oak.
Beach Maple, Poplar, Cherry, Walnut, Chestnut, Hemlock, Douglas Fur
Products Available
Flooring, Paneling, Moldings, Base Board, Crown Mold, Door & Window Casing, Bead Board, Stair Treads Bull Nosing.
GALLERY
Crab Orchard Tennessee Barn
We have salvaged this Barn that was built circa 1930's mostly from White Oak. Our salvage team carefully dismantled the structure and reclaimed approximately 98% of the materials that would be made back into products such as flooring, stair tread and stair case parts, trim, moldings, etc.
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West Knoxville Residence
This is a flooring project that we completed in spring of 2009. We manufactured the flooring and the stair tread material that we salvaged from an 80 year old barn in Crab Orchard, TN. The exposed ceiling timbers were reclaimed from a 200 hundred year old whiskey barrel warehouse in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
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L.L.Bean Store
We manufactured our © Saw Trace Oak flooring product for our vendor that was installed in the new L.L.Bean store in Albany, NY.
