Western red cedar cladding from millworks is attractive sustainable and has exceptional performance.
Western redwood cedar cladding.
Architects builders and home owners can depend on mill works expertise to supply western red cedar for a range of building projects.
It is legally responsibly and sustainably harvested in the publicly.
Zero knots and a tight even grain.
Both are beautiful in their own right but if you re planning to use a tinted stain or paint your deck or timbers you might want to go with cedar.
In short canadian western red cedar cladding is good value looks great and can last a lifetime.
Cedar a softwood is highly resistant to decay as well as resistant to splitting and movement once fitted.
Canadian western red s colour.
Canadian western red cedar is much slower grown than british western red cedar resulting in a denser darker wood with a more varied colour palette.
However the southern forests of the uk also have favourable growing conditions for the thuja plicata tree and it is available in commercial quantities from a number of sustainably managed sources.
Western red cedar unless stained a different color will naturally have a yellowish tone while redwood has a noticeably more reddish brown hue there s a reason it s called redwood.
Is western red cedar sustainably sourced.
If left untreated it turns the.
When first installed this timber cladding is a warm reddish brown colour.
Western red cedar cladding from silva can be supplied factory coated enabling it to be installed at any time of year regardless of the weather or temperature.
For environmentally friendly building materials wood is a clear leader.