The ultimate green building material, lumber is truly the best building product when it comes to the environment. Of course, its beauty and longevity are excellent qualities, as well. Thanks to grading standards and generally common lengths and widths, it’s often easy to get … [Read more...]

Teak is a high quality, coveted wood; however, it comes with "issues" As the #1 species used for by yacht builders as well as one of the top tropical hardwood species used as a decking lumber, Teak is a high-quality lumber species with a variety of interior and exterior … [Read more...]

What Kind of Tropical Decking Wood Would Best Serve Your Application? For both commercial and residential decking needs, tropical hardwoods provide the basis for the kind of low-maintenance, long-lasting attractive structures that today’s discriminating customers desire. … [Read more...]

As Teak Demand Increases, Afromosia Emerges as an Alternative Lumber species flow in and out of popularity like the undulating waves of fashion and design. In the lumber industry, each shift in preference sets off a predictable chain of events, beginning with the change in … [Read more...]

It might seem to make sense to you to use a completely different species than you have before to build something you’ve built many times before. But it may not work. Unlike manufactured products, where a simple color or finish type simply means a different pigment, each wood … [Read more...]

We’ve been pretty excited about the growing availability of Teak that’s become available for uses outside the boat-building industry in recent years. But never did we expect to be able to put it to use in such an amazing historic restoration as the Salk Institute in San Diego. … [Read more...]

If you’ve tried using Teak for a project designed with another lumber species in view, you’ve found this out the hard way: you simply can’t assume that what’s a typical length or width for other lumber species will be reasonable to acquire in Teak. The reason for the limited … [Read more...]

We’re guessing you already heard the amazing news that there’s Teak available for builders outside the boat building industry, here in the US, ready and waiting for you to purchase. (If not, go back and read this post, so you’re up to speed.) While most of the Teak boards we … [Read more...]

While the Teak industry has traditionally revolved around the needs of boat builders, the current market has allowed for those in other industries to have access to premium Teak. With the high degree of fluctuation within the Myanmar government, Teak availability has been … [Read more...]

We’re not at all opposed to plantation-grown lumber in general; however, when it comes to Teak, we’re certainly partial to native growth Burmese Teak. The exceptional coloration and consistent vertical grain make authentic Burmese Teak far superior to Plantation Teak. While we’ve … [Read more...]