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  • Hull Forest Products Earns “Best of Houzz 2014” Design Award

    Pomfret, CT, February 4, 2014 – Hull Forest Products  has been awarded a “Best Of Houzz” design award by Houzz.com, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. The family-run forestry service, sawmill, and wide plank flooring manufacturer was chosen by the more than 16 million monthly users who comprise the Houzz community. This award…

  • Barn Destroyed by Hurricane Sandy is Replaced with Hull Timbers

    For all you timber frame enthusiasts, check out this youtube video of the Laird family barn raising.  After their barn was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, the family hired Todd Mendes Woodworking to build them a new timber frame barn.  The timbers were milled from locally grown wood by Hull Forest Products.  It…

  • Join Us At Architecture Boston 2013 November 19-21st

    Attention Greater Boston residents! Don’t miss the opportunity to see our locally grown wood flooring in person at the Architecture Boston Expo, held at the Boston Convention and Exposition Center, Hall C, November 19-21st 2013. Save yourself the drive to our Connecticut sawmill and check us out while we’re in your back yard. Produced by…

  • Explore the Woods With Us This Fall

    As a valued member of our community, we’re giving you a heads up on our fall woods walks so you can mark your calendar now and save the dates for these free and educational tours: Town Forest Does the Public Good: Explore the recent forest management activities initiated by the Preston Redevelopment Agency and Hull…

  • New Woodland Management Video

    Interested in learning woodland management 101? Hull Forest Products offers free open-to-the-public woods walks and tours each year to explain the principles of forest management and show off our work. Can’t make it? Fret not, we have recorded the highlights of our latest woods tour in this 7-minute video:  

  • Connecticut Wide Plank Hardwood Flooring

    Hull Forest Products is  Connecticut’s largest sawmill and premier manufacturer of locally grown wide plank wood flooring.  We are located in Pomfret, Connecticut, and we have been offering   CT grown wide plank wood flooring mill-direct to homeowners since 1965.  In 2017 we were chosen as the wood flooring manufacturer for the new residential colleges at…

  • Forest to Floor: Sawmill Open House at Hull Forest Products

    The circular saw was invented in 1813 by a Shaker sister named Tabitha Babbitt (and we still use one today), but you may be surprised to see just how modern lumber manufacturing has become! Join us for our sawmill open house on October 12, 2013, and you’ll see firsthand how sustainably harvested local timber is…

  • A Treehouse Grows in the Yale-Myers Forest

    When Yale undergrad Griffin Collier approached Hull Forest Products about the possibility of donating lumber for the Yale Treehouse Project, we were excited to be able to help him reach his goal of building an arboreal retreat for recreation and wildlife viewing. The treehouse project was begun when Collier,  inspired by the feelings that treehouses…

  • Oak Wide Plank Floors

    Oak. Quercus. How do you tell one oak wide plank floor from another? And what is the difference between red oak and white oak wide plank flooring? Well, for one thing, there is the price tag (red oak generally costs less than white oak.) Appearance wise, red oak tends to have ruddy undertones that are…

  • White Oak Wide Plank Floors

    White Oak. Quercus Alba. Considering a White Oak wide plank floor? You’re not alone. White Oak is one of the most popular species of wood flooring in the United States, though not as popular as its cousin, Red Oak. Renowned for its impact resistance and beauty, white oak flooring makes an eye pleasing and practical…