If you are considering purchasing hardwood flooring from any of the brand name manufacturers mentioned above, you may want to consider purchasing there factory seconds, which are simply "off-goods" that didn't pass inspection before packaging at the factory. These "off-goods" are referred to as "Cabin Grade" in the pre-finished wood flooring industry.

The most common reason for why a particular manufacturer may label a particular flooring product as "Factory Seconds" or "Off-Goods" is the presence of Natural Character Markings in the Hardwood's Surface such as small knots, streaking, and color/grain variation. Other imperfections are less common, and make up only a small fraction of the imperfections. These less-likely imperfections include unfilled knots, slight milling imperfections and slight finish imperfections

It is important to realize that only a very small portion of this flooring is labeled as factory seconds due to milling and finishing imperfections, and that the most noticeable imperfection is simply more naturally occuring character in the hardwood itself than would be found in the comparable 1st Quality product. We have recommended only a 10% waste factor for these Cabin Grade products for years, and have never had a case where a customer needed more than 10% overage to complete a job.

Image above shows Bruce Lock & Fold - Factory Seconds in the color Gunstock.

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Select a manufacturer below to view product collections available. Currently, this section of our website is under construction, and only the Bruce Hardwood products have been uploaded to our site. For other brands, or for Bruce products not seen here, please call us to request a quote, as we have a very wide range of factory seconds available from the 21 name brand wood flooring manufacturers that we deal with for both 1st and 2nd quality material.