Salvage Michigan has amazing building materials and it’s all recycled! But don’t assume that means ugly. On the contrary, our company prides itself on the beauty and personal value of our reclaimed material. For example, our Veneklasen and Hansen bricks date back to Holland Michigan between 1850 and about 1920. Also, our wood includes simple pine and turn-of-the-century Lumber from the Upper Peninsula.

Advantages of Using Recycled Material

By reusing the whole structure or just specific materials you can significantly reduce waste and disposal. Salvage Michigan’s material is all recycled and specifically focuses on wood and brick and when looking at hazards, harmful chemicals in materials can be threatening to human health and the environment. Harmful chemicals found commonly are asbestos, mercury, and lead-based paint. Salvage Michigan provides a person to person communication approach when doing business and does not charge a pickup fee. Our company takes harm to human health and the environment very seriously and Working with JMB logistics is great because they do not accept any waste containing lead-based paint, oil, chemicals, or other hazardous material, aligning with Salvage Michigan’s Morals.

History of Our Material

Salvage Michigan gets our recycled wooden material from many sources, but especially through the midwest’s superior recycling services: JMB logistics’. They have facilities across the midwest that screen the wood material to produce the highest quality material. Thanks to them, Salvage Michigan includes a year-round pallet supply and our wood options range from our simple pine to our turn-of-the-century Lumber. As for our Brick materials, we get supplied from the Veneklasen Brickworks company which started with Jan Veneklasen selling bricks in Holland, Michigan, as a small local business. They expanded rapidly and 1892 Veneklasen’s son incorporated the business as Zeeland Brick company. This decision led the company to see its biggest peak of success in 1892. However, big corporations took over the market and put the small businesses out of the job by 1925.

Color Options

Bricks come in mostly red ( initially being used for chimneys) but we also offer limited options of white and orange. White color options range from a creamy white to an ivory white for polychromatic accents. This color was in high demand once whole buildings began using white bricks. Around the 1890s the orange color caught popularity, extending accent options. Wooden options are limited to shades of tan brown to very dark brown and grey.

Examples

Sources

Douma, Michael J. Veneklasen Brick: A Family, a Company, and a Unique Nineteenth-Century Dutch Architectural Movement in Michigan. W.B. Eerdmans, 2005.

Enspink, Elizabeth. “Veneklasen Brick Company.” Digital Holland, Michigan, 2020. https://digitalholland.org/veneklasen-brick-company/

JMB Logistics – Wood Waste Management  Midwest region, 2020. http://www.jmblogistics.com/wood_waste_services.phtml