The interesting and unusual at Masco Salvage

From fine Mahogany display cabinets salvaged from the Natural History Museum to the macabre Canterbury dentist chair, and so much more ……………

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Revolutionary in it’s time the CircOlectric Stryker Bed !!

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One of the first dentist chairs to be made in Canterbury – more comfy than it looks !

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Polished steel ships search light

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Mahogany double sided display cabinets from the Natural History Museum -  great for collectors of the rare and beatiful  but with easy adaption use as storage and display within contemporary store  settings  -  womens and mens clothing – homeware  ……………

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Fabulous large double ceramic sink on legs – width 138cm x height 80cm

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A retro pine kitchen cabinet with space saving enamel work surface  overall height 60″ x width 34″

Find lots more on the masco website  www.mascosalvage.com or call in and be amazed   open mon – fri  8.30am – 5pm and saturdays 10am – 5pm

Wow factor floors

Great to see our encaustic and geometric  tiles in the May issue of Homes & Antiques magazine – with business on the increase we’ve launched a new dedicated website www.thevintagefloortilecompany.co.uk take a look or call in at our Cotswold showroom – large stocks and friendly advice.

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Homebuilding and Renovating Show NEC 21st – 24th March

Come and find us on stand 189L for the best in Architectural Salvage – amazing radiators, wood flooring, York flagstone, geometric tiles, stunning French panelling and so much more !

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Beautiful Bathrooms at Masco

Masco is now stocking a great selection of interesting original, French and English bathroomware. Over the next few months Masco will be transforming the bathroom section of the showroom with new stock arriving daily.  

Rogeat & Lyon Bateau Bath fully restored and ready to install.  These baths were originally made in France in the mid 19th Century.

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Large Ceramic Bath removed from a property in Stourbridge

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French double ended Roman baths ready to be refurbed.

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At Masco not only discover lovely baths  but you’ll also find a vast array of sinks, stamped with makers names such as Royal Doulton, Twyford, together with reclaimed  French mixer taps and some reclaimed Barber Wilson.

If you are looking to buy or sell original pieces do give us a call or  visit our large Cotswold Showroom.  Look at our website for bathroom stock.

Get your tickets for The Listed Property

Get your tickets for The Listed Property show, we’ll be there on our stand, come & find us! http://ow.ly/h5lSy

Masco News Update Oct 2012

Watch out for Andys showmans wagon on George Clarks Amazing Spaces. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/george-clarkes-amazing-spaces . Should be shown on Tues 20th 8pm channel 4. Its a beautiful wagon, had a refurb and might be up for sale!

We also have some great wood in at the moment, some lovely reclaimed chene, waxed & oiled ready to go http://www.mascosalvage.com/Category/New-and-Reclaimed-Flooring

Unusual items have started to appear in our showroom. An 1848 original dentists chair,  cabinets from The Natural History museum with some great signs on them ‘ animal remains westray orkney neolithic’ a CircOlectric Stryker bed and some great gothic style hardware. Follow this link to see our furniture page. http://www.mascosalvage.com/Category/Furniture

Our next Business Biscotti free networking meeting is on Weds 28th November 9:30am-11:30am. We’ve twinned with Swindon Biscotti in order to increase the number of people doing business between Swindon and Stroud area. This is creating new opportunities for business. It’s free to come along and promote your business and a great informal way to make new connections. Here’s a link to our Biscotti group page. Have a look at some of the member benefits, all you have to do is sign up on line and why not come along to a meeting. http://www.businessbiscotti.co.uk/gloucestershire/stroud.html

We’ve just rebranded and are now part of The Reclaim & Reuse group.

This group incorporates Masco Architectural Salvage, The Old Radiator Company and The Vintage Floor Tile Company. We’re refurbishing our showroom upstairs and Andy has bought a cinema to put up in the showroom, watch out for our first film evening invite in January!

The Vintage Floor Tile Company, our newest business in the group is going from strength to strength. We now have a dedicated tile room and we’re filling our large cabinet in the upstairs showroom with the encaustic tiles. The company website is almost finished, still some work in progress but take a look. http://www.thevintagefloortilecompany.co.uk/ 

We can supply tiles for patching or make up complete floors for you. The tiles are all reclaimed original and are cleaned and sorted prior to being sent out.

If you need any more information on anything above don’t hesitate to contact Lizzie on 01285 760886. Why not come along and visit us in the south Cotswolds. We have Masco Salvage and The Vintage Floor Tile Company at this site and a good range of original cast iron radiators to view, polished, painted and ornate.

Seeing the wood for the trees

Antique and hardwood floors have become the ultimate design signature in recent years, but their roots go back a long way. In Tudor and Jacobean times wooden floors mostly of oak and sometimes elm, were found on the upper stories of houses and cottages, cobbles would have been used on the ground floor where the animals were kept. Boards were much wider than the ones we see today, often as wide as 24 inches.

As we move into the Baroque period (1625-1714) the theme of using wood on the upper levels continues, except around the East Midlands where lime putty on laths (thin strips of wood) was used. More expensive wooden floors were laid in patterns using woods of several colours. A less expensive way of creating the same effect was to paint patterns on the floorboards.

In early Georgian times, the finish below stairs was stone paving. Wood plank floors, laid over joists were used elsewhere in the house. The most common was oak, and later houses used Elm and by late 18th century pine was more common. These planks were often about 12 inches wide rather than 24 inches, but mixed boards were often used. They were left untreated and often scrubbed or scoured with sand. Boards began to get narrower as time went on, down to 8-10 inches and in some large expensive houses they began to stain and polish the margins of the room to provide a  framed carpet look.

Also by the 18th century the upper classes began to install wooden block floors such as oak, elm or yew in their houses.  In the 1820′s tongue and groove boards were beginning to be introduced and were  increasingly machine made and of a more uniform width using well seasoned wood.

In Victorian times, wood flooring was very popular in ‘masculine’ rooms, such as billiard rooms, libraries and studys.  The wooden floors were often accompanied by wood pannelling on the walls or imitation leather paper. The masculine scene was completed by brown leather armchairs, bottle green velvet curtains and antique armour or stag heads adorning the walls. This was in complete contrast to rooms used by the whole family which appeared more feminine and elegant.

Chene Ancien is our traditional oak flooring and is indistinguishable from genuine reclaimed boarding. Carefully prepared over many weeks in deep ammonia vats, before re-kilning and machining to give a finish appropriate for listed buildings or heritage work, giving an old original look. We can also provide reclaimed oak floorboards when available.

In these modern times that we live in we’re looking at ways to increase the comfort of our homes yet keep the style and design. So engineered board has been introduced for those of us thinking of installing under floor heating. This board is resistant to swelling, twisting, warping , shrinkage and movement that comes with the constant change in temperature. It looks the same as the solid oak as most engineered boards have 4-6mm of oak on the top. Masco provides boards which have 5-6mm on top of the engineered. Below is an example of engineered board available at Masco.

Reclaimed boards, either in oak, pine or elm are very popular now as people start to patch wooden floors in renovation projects. Many carpets are being pulled up these days to reveal original wooden floors, which with a bit of TLC can be restored to a beautiful floor. 

Download our pdf technical guide to wood flooring for some help and inspiration.  Wood Flooring Technical Guide