Tag: hull forest products
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Saving Money on Wide Plank Flooring
Love the look of wide plank flooring but not the price? Don’t despair! With a little homework you can find the floor of your dreams at a down-to-earth price. Here are some tips from Hull Forest Products, a family-run New England sawmill that has been making wide plank flooring for three generations. 1. Buy mill-direct.…
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Curly Birch Wide Plank Flooring
Couldn’t resist showing you a sneak peek of this truly exceptional figured wide plank Birch floor we created for a client in California. We loved it so much, we used curly Birch for the floor of our new office addition here at Hull Forest Products. We have many more photos of curly Birch floors in…
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Join Us at the Shriner’s Auditorium Home Show Wilmington, MA Feb. 8-10 2013
Attention Greater Boston residents! Don’t miss the opportunity to see our locally grown wood flooring in person at the Home Show at Shriner’s Auditorium in Wilmington, MA February 8-10, 2013. Selected floors will be 10-30 percent off. This show is free and open to the public and ample parking is available. Save yourself the drive…
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Hull Wide Plank Flooring Appears in Old House Journal
Interested in the history of wood flooring? Dan Cooper has written an informative article on the topic for Old House Journal, and OHJ editors selected this photo of our wide plank oak flooring (taken by Damianos Photography) to accompany the article. Wide plank flooring is touted as a way to get a historic look or…
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How to Choose a Wide Plank Wood Floor
Not sure what kind of wide plank wood floor you want? Flooring manufacturer Hull Forest Products recommends you ask yourself four questions to help determine your style when choosing wide plank flooring: 1. Do you prefer a clear floor or one with some knots or other natural markings? Clear floors, like the White Oak floor…
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Preserving May Brook Glen
October 2010- The Hull family has donated a 3.3 acre parcel in Holland, Massachusettts, comprising May Brook Glen to the Opacum Land Trust in order to see the parcel protected from development. May Brook Glen has over 1,000 feet of frontage on May Brook, which rushes and tumbles over rapids in May Brook Glen and…
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Hull Forest Products Earns FSC Certification
August 2009- Hull Forest Products is now certified to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards and we are pleased to offer our customers FSC-certified flooring and lumber from our sawmill. Nearly a decade ago, the Hull Forestlands were certified to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards. Since then public concern about the state of the world’s forests…
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Helping Nature Conservancy Conserve Working Forests
March 2009- By conveying an easement on 450 acres of forestland it owns and manages in Union, CT, Hull Forestlands has helped the Nature Conservancy reach its 50,000 acre mark of protected forests, rivers, and coastline across the state. The conservation easement, established with the help of a grant from the North American Wetlands Conservation…
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Champion of Youth and Wildlife Award
February 2009- The nonprofit organization Facts About Wildlife & Nature Society (FAWNS) has recognized Hull Forest Products for their long-time generous support of the Massachusetts Outdoor Expo (“The Big MOE”) with a special “Champion of Youth and Wildlife Award.” The Big MOE is an outdoor experience where families are encouraged to sample, entirely free of…
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Waste Not, Want Not: Recovering Optimum Value from Every Board
January 2004-Hull Forest Products Installs First-of-Its-Kind Edger In 2004, Hull Forest Products installed and began running a new computer-optimized edger system that was the first of its kind in North America. An edger is a machine that saws the round edges off boards from the saw carriage. This may sound like a simple task, but…