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Western Red Cedar
is an attractive fence board and it is famed
for its extraordinary durability and
resistance to decay. The fence board color
is extremely attractive, varying from almost
pure white of the
narrow sapwood to the light straw shade of
dark reddish-brown of the heartwood. The
wood of Western
red cedar has a very low coefficient of
expansion, so that it does not shrink, swell
or warp excessively,
even when subjected to changing degrees of
temperature and moisture. Th e wood is
saturated to every
fiber with natural preservative oil which
renders it virtually immune to decay and
gives it extreme durability
without artificial preservative treatment.
Woodruff Doug Fir is stabilized Kiln-dried
Fence Boards. Kiln drying minimizes
shrinking and warping,
plus mold spores are eliminated with the 180
degree kiln temperatures. Woodruff fence
boards and rails
are Pre-Stained and Anti-Fungal Treated, but
do not contain harmful metallic compounds
that may be
unsafe for family or pets. The fence board
also contains an environmentally approved
mold inhibitor that
assures a fresh-looking product.
Northern White Cedar is unique to the
Northeast region of North America, where it
grows from upper
Michigan along the Canada-United States
border to New Brunswick. It's a slow-growing
tree found mainly
in swampy areas. The heartwood of white
cedar is light brown, and the sapwood is
white or nearly so.
The wood has an aromatic spicy 'cedary or
pencil-like' odor. The wood is lightweight,
rather soft, and low
in strength and shock resistance, It has an
even grain, fine texture, and the lowest
density of any
commercial domestic wood. It shrinks little
in drying. It is easily worked and holds
paint well. The
heartwood is highly resistant to decay and
subterranean termites. |
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