Crossroads Recycled Lumber, LLC has been recycling wood since 1981, supplying quality old growth lumber, timbers, flooring, and finish materials to some of the finest homes and commercial projects in the West.
One of our primary goals is to promote and support sustainable design and green building. We especially want to work with people using earth, straw, and non-toxic materials in their projects. The vast majority of our lumber is FSC Certified.
Crossroads supplies individual homes as well as larger mainstream projects where the look and quality of old growth wood is desired.
Our workers include veteran mill hands that are knowledgeable about lumber and milling equipment. We are located in the exact geographical center of California (North Fork), close enough to garner a LEED point for locally-sourced materials nearly anywhere in California.
You’ll find Reclaimed Wood Flooring, Timbers, Barnwood, Post and Beam, Siding & Paneling, Wainscoting, Mantlepieces, Timberframe Packages, and more. Crossroads offers you products from the best of our natural resources – grown, harvested, manufactured, salvaged, and remanufactured in the USA.
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About Reclaimed Lumber
Most reclaimed timber was originally sawn from old growth trees that were much larger, slower growing and had tighter growth rings than trees cut today.
Compare the growth ring density of Reclaimed Old Growth Wood to new lumber and you will typically find much finer grain in the reclaimed wood. The old wood has been fastened in place in a structure, usually from 50 to 150 years in the Western States, where it air dried and seasoned to a stable condition.
Therefore, when a building is deconstructed, the posts, beams, joists, purlins, and rafters generally maintain their straightness. When we get a twisted post or beam we can saw it straight and square. Unlike new timber, the resawn old wood will stay straight 99% of the time. This is one reason why many timber framers and other fine builders prefer reclaimed timbers.
The look of aged, antique lumber and timbers has a warm and welcoming quality. From golden brown to light gray patinas, there’s something soothing in the old wood.
About Green Building
Sustainability is often defined as “Meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
It makes sense, right?
Then why aren’t we doing it? Why aren’t we, as a society, living it?
At Crossroads Recycled Lumber we are greatly concerned about the sustainability (or unsustainability) of the American lifestyle, particularly regarding the use of our natural resources. The way we have harvested and built over the past 200 years has come to a head, endangering our very existence on this earth. Now all of us in the U.S., and our worldly neighbors, have to develop wise ways of living, making less waste and pollution. The more quickly and sustainably we develop these ways, the better off we will all be.