WOOD PRODUCTS

Wood massaranduba

Massaranduba Wood

A beautiful reddish durable South American hardwood with few knots. Perfect decking wood with high water, fungal and blue stain resistance. The natural oil content helps with protection against termite attack.

Wood ipe

Ipe Wood

Famous for its durability due to its density, Ipe wood has a beautiful chocolate brown colour. With few knots, this heavy hardwood has a high resistance against fungus, water & blue stain.

Wood garape

Garapa Wood

This very distinctive wood from Brazil and South America has an attractive light yellow brown color tone. Elegant wood for decking with a smooth top side. Very high resitance to fungus & blue stain.

Wood pine

Pine Wood

This North European wood is pressure impregnated to increase durability. Easy to process, diverse small & large knots and high fungal/blue stain resistance.  Very good price to performance ratio.

Wood saligna

Saligna Wood

This wood has a pale yellow sapwood, fairly well- defined from the light rose-brown heartwood. The grain is usually interlocked, occasionally straight and the texture is rather course.

Wood teak

Teak Wood

The heartwood is reddish-brown marked with irregular black lines and flecks, and sharply defined from the lighter coloured narrow sapwood. The grain is straight to slightly interlocked and the texture is fine and even.

WOODEN FLOORING

No other type of flooring can match the warmth and atmosphere that solid wooden flooring brings to a home.  With proper care a wooden floor will last you a lifetime. Solid wooden floors are able to withstand years of service with proper maintenance and are environmentally friendly depending on the type of wood used.

The unique and individual feel of a solid wooden floor adds value to any home, office, reception or restaurant. There are three types of installation methods for solid wooden flooring:

1. Nail Down

This floor is installed onto timber batons fixed to a concrete sub floor using the hidden nailing method to fasten the floor through the tongue to the baton. This traditional way of installation allows for a cavity space between floor and concrete but should not be installed above bare earth as used to be practiced in former times. Modern kiln-dried flooring does not allow for moisture rising from the ground even if the floor is vented on the sides. The nail down floor is more noisy when walking on it giving it a traditional feel.

2. Glue Down

A glue-down floor does not require the construction of a timber sub structure. The flooring boards are glued directly to the screed. The quality of the concrete screed as well as the level of the floor have to be perfectly straight to successfully install this type of flooring. The floor follows the level of the concrete screed making adjustments in height (as with a nail-down floor) impossible. This type of flooring is very quiet to walk on and gives a wonderful solid feel under foot. The glue down floor is best used where height presents a problem in existing or new homes.

3. Floating

With this type of flooring the planks are glued together on the tongue and groove. It means that the floor planks are not fixed to the screed/sub floor, it literally floats. It is the most cost effective way of laying a floor.  It allows the wood to expand and contract freely without being restricted. A 10mm expansion gap is left around the floor to allow for movement, the floor itself is held down by skirting, which also covers the gap.