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Flooring is one of the largest design elements in any commercial space. From offices and lobbies to restaurants and boutiques to showrooms and retail locations, flooring determines how customers feel when they enter a space – and how they permanently perceive the brand. When it comes to commercial hardwood floors, there’s nothing like a wide plank surface to build and elevate your brand.
Wide plank floors feature floorboards that are much wider and longer than standard commercial hardwood floors. With planks up to 12′ long and 20″ wide, a wide plank floor conveys a sense of luxury, spaciousness and elegance that enhances a customer’s feeling about your space. Wide plank commercial hardwood floors are a head-turning design element that speaks loudly about how you perceive your brand – and the experience you want your customers to have.
At Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, we offer wide plank commercial hardwood floors that set the benchmark for excellence, beauty and durability. Our customizable solutions produce one-of-a-kind floors that ensure your surfaces will be recognized as truly unique and extraordinary works of art.
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ExploreFrom Kuwait to Kauai, Carlisle wood floors can be seen in beautiful interiors throughout the world, including high-traffic retail, upscale retail, luxury hotels, mixed-use properties and more.
However, Carlisle is far more than a wood flooring manufacturer. In addition to extraordinary flooring options, we provide our customers with benefits, options and customizable solutions that no other flooring company can offer.
Our distinctive SlowCraft™ approach enables us to make commercial hardwood floors with the longest, widest planks in the world. Our craftsmen are true artisans with a love and feel for fine wood. They painstakingly inspect every board and obsess over every detail to make sure each floor lives up to our highest standards – and yours.
Our commercial floors are made with only premium wood taken from the center of old-growth trees. These center-cut planks have maximum vertical grain density that enables superior strength and long-term stability.
From different species of wood to options for grade, color, width and texture, you’ll find more than 20,000 flooring combinations to choose from at Carlisle. Our wide plank specialists are skilled professionals who are experts at matching your vision with the right Carlisle wide plank floor. Working with you every step of the way, we help design floors consistent with your brand standards and your overall interior design.
Our dustless recoat system was developed with global leaders in UV finishing technology and tested successfully over thousands of floors. With no sanding and no dust, our recoat system is VOC compliant and qualifies for LEED credits. And It’s a great way to coat hand-scraped and distressed commercial hardwood floors in just four simple steps.
All our wide plank floors are made in America by skilled craftsmen in our manufacturing facility located in New England.
Carlisle wide plank floors are available for installation throughout the world – from North America and Europe to the Middle East and Asia. Our specialty is ensuring quality and timely delivery to any location.
Solid wood floors are made with planks cut from a single piece of hardwood or pine timber. Engineered wood floors are made with floorboards constructed with multiple layers of material that are glued together and topped with a veneer of hardwood. This type of plank offers a highly stable core that performs better in installations below grade, over radiant heat, on concrete slabs and in any location where higher levels of moisture and humidity are present.
When finishing commercial hardwood floors, the final coat of sealant determines the amount of sheen or luster in a polyurethane wood floor. The more luster in the finish, the more the floor will reflect light and have a shinier appearance. With a luster level around 70%, high gloss hardwood floors are exceptionally shiny and are usually seen in spaces like gyms and bowling alleys. Super glossy hardwood floors will tend to show dirt, dust, scratches and imperfections in the floor more easily, making them less practical in commercial settings. Semi gloss hardwood floors have a luster level of around 55% and offer a more practical alternative for businesses that want a gleaming floor. Satin floors have a luster level of approximately 40% and offer a nice balance between a sparkling appearance and ease of maintenance. Matte hardwood floors have a luster level of 10% to 25% and appear quite natural though somewhat dull. As an alternative to a urethane wood floor, some businesses prefer floors that are sealed with penetrating oil or with wax, both of which will result in a matte finish.
Commercial hardwood floors installed in high-traffic areas are often made with Hickory or Maple. Hickory is the hardest of the woods that are commonly used for flooring, with a hardness rating of 1820. (Hardness ratings are based on the amount of force in pounds required to embed a small steel ball halfway into a plank of wood.) Maple is also quite hard, with a rating of 1450. These denser woods are more resistant to scratches, dents and wear, making them ideal for commercial locations that see a great deal of foot traffic.
To achieve the look of antique wood floors, Carlisle craftsmen can apply a variety of texturing or distressing techniques that give new floorboards a vintage appearance. Our craftsmen can add saw marks and rough spots to planks to reproduce the look of boards that were cut and milled more than a century ago. Wire-brush techniques wear away the softer grains in a floorboard to recreate the unevenness in planks that have been lived on and walked on for generations. And adding hand-scraped edges reproduces the look of floors that were once prepared for installation by hand.
For more than 50 years, Carlisle Wide Plank Floors has been a leader in flooring innovation. Every Carlisle floor is made with time-honored processes and the soundest, most reliable timber grown in American forests. Our artisan woodworkers embrace a level of craftsmanship that is equally at home with traditional styles and fashion-forward themes.
Carlisle products set the benchmark for excellence in commercial hardwood floors. No other company can offer you the extraordinary range of options that Carlisle can. In addition to creating stunning floors, our woodworking techniques and commitment to quality ensure you’ll have the most durable floor as well.
With Carlisle, you’ll have direct access to the people who are making your commercial hardwood floor. There are no middlemen, distributors or third-party sales representatives to deal with. If you have a question, you can simply contact us to speak with the people who have direct knowledge of every aspect of your floor. Our direct-to-client business model also provides assurance that you are getting the best price for the highest quality, with no intermediary markups.
