Five Value Added Reasons for using
Incense Cedar for Shutters
Incense
cedar is the best wood for close tolerance fabrication,offering
the specialized user advantages over pine, fir and other
softwoods. Incense cedar ensures natural durability, dependable
dimensional stability, excellent workability, exceptional
painting, staining and gluing characteristics and useful
insulation properties. In addition, its light weight facilitates
handling.
1.
Natural Durability.
The USDA Forest Products Laboratory rates incense cedar
one of the most durable and decay-resistant woods. It
provides long, dependable service with little or no maintenance,
even under high-moisture conditions.
2.
Dimensional Stability. Incense
cedar is one of the most stable species of lumber. It
weathers well with little warping or checking, thus minimizing
any tendency to pull loose from fasteners, particularly
where exterior applications expose the wood to wide temperature
and humidity changes.
3.
Workability. The
growth characteristics of incense cedar are unique. Growth
rings are fine and evenly distributed. There is little
difference in the texture of earlywood and latewood. The
benefit: superb workability by hand or machine tools.
It provides silky smooth, even surfaces ideally suited
for precise machining requirements. The uniform texture
also makes gluing easier.
4.
Paintability. Few
softwoods can be as easily prepared for painting or staining
and none provides a better quality finished surface. Incense
cedar's surface is naturally uniform and homogeneous,
smoother than that of pine and raised-grain softwoods.
Most important, the species does not contain resin canals
or pitch pockets to ruin stain or paint application.
5.
Insulation Properties. Incense
cedar's "K factor" (thermal conductivity rating)
is among the best of all sandalwoods, giving it very dependable
insulating properties. It is prized in uses where heat
and cold insulation is important.
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Shade Shop, Inc.
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Houston, Texas 77027
Phone: (713) 623-0750
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