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Upcoming Events
Historic Restorations Classes:
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Controlling Moisture in Buildings - seminar - November 8, 2008
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Router Techniques - hands on - November 22-23, 2008
Continuing Education Classes at Harrisburg Area Community College:
- Energy Conservation and the Older Home - November 12, 2008 - Lancaster
- Older Home Preservation Process - December 3, 2008 - Harrisburg
More information can be found at their web site www.hacc.edu |
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Architectural Salvage
Many of the materials and products needed for your restoration project are available from an architectural salvage dealer including: historic millwork, light fixtures, reclaimed flooring, plumbing fixtures, wavy glass, period hardware, and reclaimed stone and tile. Many of these features can be used to make your project even more authentic while still having a green approach to construction.
The historic millwork is probably the hardest to match from one house to another - we have used stair rails and balusters in our projects from salvaged dealers allowing us to have an antique housepart rather than a reproduction. Using the historic millwork in this manner helps to minimize the challenge of finding a room with millwork exactly the same size.
The reclaimed flooring can be the wide boards many people love in their early homes either from actual flooring, resawn beams, and barns. The species options are usually limited to what grew locally but you can often find rare species such as American Chestnut.
Below we have listed the local architectural salvage dealers we are familiar with that have web sites. Many of the dealers carry a wide variety of products and you will often have to search for the solution to your needs but while searching you might find something else you cannot live without.
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Local Architectural Salvage Dealers
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