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Leading the way with innovation
Our complementary services only add to the client
experience. We also supply the best aftercare
products to ensure your wood floor stays in great
condition. It is quite possible a quality wood floor,
fitted well and maintained, can last you a lifetime!

We now have four main manufacturing facilities
specialising in our solid and engineered flooring range,
although due to sustainability issues we rarely
manufacture solid oak these days. All our facilities are
FSC or PEFC certified to ensure that all our products
are sourced ethically with the environment in mind.
Sustainability is in our DNA
Wood flooring products are just like us – every tree is
individual and unique as this is how nature works. The
grain and colour variation on any single species of tree
will be different, just like every human being is
different. Even identical twins will have personality
differences even though they may look alike. The
seasons and climate changes will have an impact on
trees and can alter their hue, colour, and structure.

Being proactive with sustainability ensures that more
trees are planted than harvested for our timber
products. We have earned a three tree rating with
the WWF, which is the highest that can be given
for our environmental and sustainability statements
and procedures.
A history of The Solid The Solid Wood Flooring Company cares considerably The Solid Wood Flooring Company cares
considerably about sustainability
about sustainability. That’s why we’ve made it a policy
Wood Flooring Company to only source from well managed legal sustainable
forests and be responsible not only to the environment
but also our clients, staff, and contractors.
We unreservedly condemn illegal logging or sourcing
material from deforested regions. Therefore, we never
harvest materials from rainforests and will not
manufacture some exotic wood species, as sadly so
much timber from these areas comes from
questionable sources. With modern oiled finishes, we
can create a vast choice of colour tones on oak
flooring; so, it seems so wasteful that people are still
selling flooring that comes from our ever-reducing
rainforests.
We only manufacture our own wooden flooring and
can therefore control the sources of our raw material
unlike many of our competitors who buy from traders.

We are FSC certified and PEFC certified, with full chain
of custody. This means that all our certified flooring can
be traced to the responsibly managed forest where it
was harvested. This is just one of the ways we ensure all
our products are sustainably sourced.

We are proud to be part of the ‘Gone West’ mission of
planting long term forest in England. Please be
assured our prices will not increase because of this.
Our commitment is to plant 4,000 (four thousand)
new oak trees every year, and if we use approximately
1,000 oak trees every year for our oak Wood Flooring
it means we are planting three new trees for every
mature tree we cut down.

01666 504 015
info@thesolidwoodflooringcompany.com A large proportion of our wood floors have been designed
and manufactured by architects and interior designers
www.thesolidwoodflooringcompany.com

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