If you're looking for new hardwood floors or decorative beams for your home, an upstate company has a way to make old wood, new again.
Wood from trees that's over 100 years old finding new life. We're in Union county talking to a family business about going green.
“We bring the timbers in from the old mill and we de nail them.”
Howard Johnson started Old American Lumber in Union 15 years ago with a simple idea.
“I grew up in hard times and we never threw nothing away. I guess I took it from there,” Johnson explains.
That idea has blossomed into a thriving "green" business.
“We started off taking down old buildings and saw the old wood was still valuable.”
“We started making them into flooring and other things and then the cotton mills started closing down,” says Howard.
Johnson's family specializes in finding new life for the leftover wood and bricks from closed businesses.
“If we can take our time on the mill, we try and get 80 percent. We try to get 90 percent yield out of everything.”
Howard's son Jason says it's their way of going green.
“We've also sold little sticks for tomato sticks. We've also taken our sawdust and people make compost out of it for their gardens,” Jason says.
Tables, hardwood floors, even benches...if you want it, chances are they can do it.
People come in and they are looking for anything old, different to put in a house...something that's different from everybody else.
As a way to save some green, you can bring your old wood to the company and they can help make it new again.
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