Choosing Low-VOC Wood Flooring for Healthy Indoor Air Quality

Indoor air quality has become a growing concern for many homeowners, designers and builders. Poor indoor air quality (IAQ) can lead to health problems, including respiratory issues, headaches, and fatigue. Concentrations of many VOCs are consistently higher indoors (up to ten times higher) than outdoors, according to the EPA, which makes choosing healthy, low-VOC products extremely important. Choosing healthy indoor building materials is essential for improving indoor air quality and overall health and wellness indoors.

Earth Month 2023: Invest in Our Planet

Earth Day 2023 is April 22nd, a day to reflect on our impact on our home planet and a day to make change for our future. Though sustainability is on the minds of many producers and policy-makers, nearly every country in the world is behind on their Greenhouse Gas Neutrality by 2050 goals. Immediate and significant action is needed to promote a greener, lasting future.

Source Story: Heritage Oak

Reclaimed Spirit

The rich history of our forefathers can be felt through each plank of our Heritage Oak wood. Many Eastern farmers upon staking their claim would build and live in their barns first before building their homes. To them barns represented the farms income and where their livestock lived. In this region of the US, Oak trees were the most common tree to be found, so this is why most barns in Eastern US were constructed of either red or white oak planks. The wood from an Oak Tree is strong and hard, with a high tannin content making it resistant to both insect and fungal attack. Despite their rich legacies and strong timber frames, so many of these structures have been left empty as new generations head to the city abandoning the old family farm.

Source Story: Grandstand Fir & Pine

Most of us have shared memories of filing into our gymnasiums for school rallies, basketball games and dreaded gym class. Nowadays most bleachers are made of aluminum or concrete, but perhaps you remember sneaking a piece of elastic chewing gum underneath wooden bleachers when the teacher wasn’t looking. At the time, you probably wouldn’t have been impressed that these bleachers were high quality wide plank, long length clear pine and fir that make incredible flooring and paneling. But now, you might!

New Product: Deep Sumi Oak

Anthology Woods is excited to announce a new product to our collection of interior wall cladding and ThinClad paneling! Deep Sumi Oak gives the effect of the traditional Japanese Shou Sugi Ban charred wood, which is a technique of burning wood employed to better preserve the wood and use in exterior applications

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