Production Availability for Real Wood Floors

I wanted to give you some updates regarding our upcoming production so you can plan your bids accordingly. We have picked up a number of new customers in the last 4-6 weeks and it has put a little lag into some of our available inventory for certain items and we are now in catch-up mode. I wanted to take each species and break down our current inventory situation and our upcoming production so you know what to expect for the next 6-8 weeks.

Red Oak
Still the king of everything we do. We are having a difficult time keeping up on 2 1/4" and 3 1/4" in both Select and #1 common. We have 2 1/4" and 3 1/4" S&B in stock currently and we have a lot of 4" that we ran to sell as a substitute until we get the 3 1/4" production up to a level that will meet the current demand. If you have larger jobs upcoming you might consider pushing 4" widths for both S&B and #1. We had backed way off on 5" production last year as our demand for that product had slacked off, but with the rising solid market pricing our demand is coming back. We have stock on it currently and we have more on the way. If you have upcoming demand for 2 1/4" you might get orders placed early as we are now getting distributors buying some material for stock.

White Oak
We started making plainsawn white oak about 18 months ago and I don't think we've ever caught up on 3 1/4" S&B. It is a tough product in that the demand for the common grade is not as strong as the red oak and that forces us to find very specific loads of lumber that has good color and the right widths to make just what we need. We have been doing better as of late with it but it is still a situation where every time we get a batch in it is usually presold before it hits the warehouse. We have found a solution on the lumber side to this problem but it will still take a few months to get that worked out. So on 3 1/4" S&B be prepared for some delays. We do have about 8000sqft coming in soon but we do have some orders against it already. 4" S&B has a new life in that we've taken a lot of new orders from new customers on it and similarly to the 4" we are catching up. 5" S&B we do the best on and we do have a little in stock now and we have another 10000sqft in production. We have not found any good market for the #1 common product yet, please let us know if you have different ideas for that. We are going to move some white oak into our prefinished handscraped product to off-load that material.

Maple
This product more than any other has seen an increased demand in the last few weeks. We sold out of 3 1/4" in both grades and we have a little more coming in but its going to be a month or so before we can catch up on that width. In response we've upped the 4" production so please consider quoting the 4" product for the short term as an alternative to the 3 1/4". We have good stock of 5" currently and we have more coming in.

Jatoba
We have all widths on hand now. We will have more 5" coming in the third week of March (8000sqft).

Hickory
We have sold a large volume of hickory to distributors who are finding their solid pricing inching up and are seeing the engineered product as a more viable option than 6 months ago. We sold completely out of 4" and 5" last week. We still have 3 1/4" and 6" on the ground and we will have 10000sqft of 5" and 3500sqft of 4" coming in around the third week of March.

R&Q White Oak
This has been a product in the past that was tough to keep up on but we are currently well stocked on all widths and grades.

Walnut
We currently have good stock of both grades in all widths. We are offering special pricing on 4" Character so you might consider that when you have customers looking for Character Walnut floors.

Tigerwood
We have a good amount of 5" material on hand.

Santos Mahogany
We have a good amount of 5" material on hand.


Let us know if there is anything we can do or if you have any questions about our upcoming production.