Wormy Chestnut Timber Flooring

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Wormy chestnut timber flooring.

85mm 130mm 180mm thickness. It is not just beautiful and full of character it. It is a very durable blend designed for decades of use. Ask about this timber australian wormy chestnut data sheet.

Australian wormy chestnut sometimes known as firestreak does not actually come from a chestnut tree at all. With a wormy chestnut floor no two boards will be the same. Australian chestnut brings together three distinct eucalyptus species messmate southern beech and silvertop black ash native to the south east of australia. Australian wormy chestnut eucalyptus obliqua eucalyptus sieberi eucalyptus fastigata.

Timber species wr timbers stock over 45 australian and international timber species to assure you will find the right wood for your needs. We import species from canada europe south east asia usa and new zealand whilst also holding agencies and procuring local species from western australia tasmania queensland new south wales and victoria. Wormy chestnut is found in the forest of south eastern australia. The timber is extraordinarily straight grained harvested from australia s tallest hardwood species the texture is uniform generally straight open and even but sometimes coarse grained or fiddle backed.

Just arrived from a barn salvage project this wormy chestnut will make some beautiful furniture or flooring. Once readily available this lumber has been in shorter supply recently so please call for current inventory. With each piece of timber left with a mark from nature you will see deep red gum veins which are formed by fire where a suitable coating can be used to bring out the grain and. The resulting tracks of the chestnut timber worm are more commonly known as shot worm holes.

Technical data density 800 modulus of rupture mpa dry 118 radial shrinkage 3 5 hardness janka. The timber is named for its characteristics rather than its species and comes from a blend of eucalyptus obliqua eucalyptus sieberi and eucalyptus fastigata. Australian wormy chestnut timber for sale. Ridgewood has been importing wholesaling and distributing timber panel and forestry products to the australian market for over 30 years.

As hardwood timber flooring it differs from most other timber species. Tasmanian oak is a commonly used for timber flooring. The shot worm holes are the defining characteristic of wormy chestnut millions of board feet of standing deadwood chestnut were harvested for industrial residential furniture and construction purposes. Chestnut wormy flooring.