RepurposedMATERIALS is looking for flooring-related waste or surplus material or obsolete inventories.
The company, with warehouse locations in Denver, Chicago and Atlanta, has become a sensation for its ability to promote innovative uses for material that people or commercial enterprises would otherwise throw away or recycle.
“We characterize ourselves as an industrial thrift store,” says company founder Damon Carson.
“Repurposing,” as it relates to the company, means to find a use for a product in its second life that is very different than its first life. The company buys the material at bottom-barrel prices (it’s “junk”), and then sells it to do-it-yourselfers or homeowners, typically for small-scale projects, he says.
One man purchased an amount of trailer-truck flooring from Carson and used it to construct a countertop for a food truck. Recent newsletters have advertised inventories of old maple gym flooring.
While Carson is currently looking nationwide for more flooring material to repurpose, flooring is just the tip of the iceberg. The company has found success selling, for example, industrial conveyor belts as truck mud flaps and advertising billboard vinyl as drop cloths for home painters and hay bale covers.
More of the company’s quirky ideas can be seen in its often zany weekly email newsletter.
One recent newsletter started with a question: How many square feet of gym flooring can you get in a small compact sedan? The answer, as photographed by a customer, was 160 square feet.
If you have leftover flooring material, contact repurposedMATERIALS at (303) 321-1471.
