Comments for Recycled Lumber from Reclaimed Wood http://CrossRoadsLumber.com/blog Green Building & More Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:09:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on Growing Up with Reclaimed Lumber by Sophie http://CrossRoadsLumber.com/blog/growing-up-with-reclaimed-lumber/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Sophie Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:09:06 +0000 http://CrossroadsLumber.com/blog/?p=26#comment-10 I am still learning about the work we do here and this industry. Without going back and changing what I wrote last month, I wanted to post a few corrections that my dad pointed out about my blog entry above: People do recycle bricks and they did that on the Cribari Winery job. Used brick has been popular for years in fireplaces and other applications. There was also a tremendous amount of iron and other metals recycled there including stainless steel and copper tanks. Demolition people have been recycling iron forever - long before any general public consciousness about recycling came about. When you say "first old growth trees that were logged 50 years ago" - generally speaking thats not that long ago and the first sawmills in the West were in the mid 1800's, so you could say 100 years or more ago... ---- That's all for now. -Sophie I am still learning about the work we do here and this industry. Without going back and changing what I wrote last month, I wanted to post a few corrections that my dad pointed out about my blog entry above:

People do recycle bricks and they did that on the Cribari Winery job. Used brick has been popular for years in fireplaces and other applications.

There was also a tremendous amount of iron and other metals recycled there including stainless steel and copper tanks. Demolition people have been recycling iron forever – long before any general public consciousness about recycling came about.

When you say “first old growth trees that were logged 50 years ago” – generally speaking thats not that long ago and the first sawmills in the West were in the mid 1800′s, so you could say 100 years or more ago…

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That’s all for now.
-Sophie

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