Red Hills Lumber mills a range of custom wood products produced from large, sustainably grown longleaf pine. The primary products from our lumber mills are four grades of high quality heart pine flooring, custom wood beams, wainscoting, moldings and stair parts. We also produce engineered flooring in both heart pine and prefinished yellow pine surfaces.
Heart pine has been highly prized for flooring since Washington chose it for Mount Vernon and Jefferson for Monticello. The tight, highly patterned grain and amber hues of Red Hills heart pine continue a long tradition. A few months of exposure to light mellows and deepens the colors. Continued exposure brings out the full patina.
Much of the small supply of heart pine available now has been reclaimed at considerable expense from old buildings or logs sunk in rivers and commands a price upwards of $9 a board foot. Red Hills Lumber Company sustainably harvests comparable lumber from mature longleaf pines and sells it at a considerably lower cost.
Longleaf heart pine was used for the decks and masts of Old Ironsides and it remains in buildings from the 18th century. It lasts because it is hard. Its rating on the Janka hardness scale is 1225, much harder than other pine (J380-870) and virtually the same hardness as red oak (1290). It is also 29% more stable than oak.
The forests from which Red Hills harvests are natural habitats under permanent conservation easements. They are sustainably managed to preserve the longleaf ecosystem and its biological diversity. See the section on environment in the page "About Us" for more.