Browse Forums Finishing Touch Re: which wood for timber slat fence? 2Oct 26, 2010 3:47 pm Ooh, i am interested in this too. Don't want treated pine as it's likely to warp over time and don't want merbau as I'm not comfortable with felling tropical rainforest timber. Re: which wood for timber slat fence? 3Oct 26, 2010 6:28 pm I have a timber slat fence with steel posts and used merbau timber - still looking great nearly 2 years on. We just give it a light sand/stain when it needs it My karma ran over your dogma Re: which wood for timber slat fence? 4Nov 01, 2010 4:57 pm Like haygwl, we have merbau slat screens around our place and love them to bits. All it takes is an oil once a year to keep them looking perfect. You can see our feature screen here: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ This small one hides our rubbish bins: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Any hardwood used for decking should be OK (listen to me, I'm such an expert. NOT. ). xquisite, if you want sustainable timber, you may need to do some research. I don't know what's available for outdoor use except salvaged materials, and I doubt those are in plentiful supply. This might be useful though: http://www.goodwoodguide.org.au/ Re: which wood for timber slat fence? 5Nov 01, 2010 5:43 pm That's perfect Kek, exactly what we are after. Now just trying to find someone who can actually get it for us. Have been ringing decking places and timber yards and been told it's hard to come by?? Anyone know where in WA to get it from? Re: which wood for timber slat fence? 6Nov 01, 2010 5:50 pm Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: which wood for timber slat fence? 7Nov 03, 2010 2:42 pm kek xquisite, if you want sustainable timber, you may need to do some research. I don't know what's available for outdoor use except salvaged materials, and I doubt those are in plentiful supply. This might be useful though: http://www.goodwoodguide.org.au/ Fab! Thanks for the link. For anyone else who's interested, I found this great place for cypress: http://www.goldencypress.com.au/Home_Page.php And your screens look great, kek. Really impressed with the Bin Hider! Re: which wood for timber slat fence? 8Nov 05, 2010 10:30 am We did our front/side fence (from house to boundary fence) using 90x22mm Treated Pine. We did it all ourselves and the total price for the 8m to a height of 2m was about $800. We used the Intergrain NaturalStain in Merbau to finish it, and you really wouldn't know the difference between the pine and real merbau. The key to it not warping is having posts and bracing closer together (about every 600mm) so that the wood can't bend (we used a piece of the decking cut to size and screwed to the back of the slats as the bracing in between the concreted posts). We did notice that the wood has shrunk slightly in the 10 months it has been up, meaning our 6mm gaps are now at about 10mm, but it still looks fine. If you want to avoid this get the timber kiln dried - meaning it will be less likely to warp and it has already shrunk. The icing on the cake was knowing we paid less than half the price of real merbau and a fencer across the road complimenting us on our fence - when we told him he couldn't believe we had built it ourselves and he couldn't believe it wasn't real merbau link: http://ourhausinthewest.blogspot.com/20 ... fence.html Second Time 'Round Re: which wood for timber slat fence? 9Nov 05, 2010 7:11 pm First_Timer_Ray We did our front/side fence (from house to boundary fence) using 90x22mm Treated Pine. ..... We used the Intergrain NaturalStain in Merbau to finish it, and you really wouldn't know the difference between the pine and real merbau. The key to it not warping is having posts and bracing closer together (about every 600mm) so that the wood can't bend Intergrain products are the ant's pants. And even hardwoods can warp if the supports are spaced too far apart, so that's good advice, whatever you use. Rizzo, I don't know about timber supplies in WA, but when we did our front deck, we found that spotted gum was way cheaper than merbau. It was hard to get at the time, but we managed to find enough at Bunnings. It's a beautiful timber; the only issue is that the boards are more likely to be twisted or warped, so you need to choose carefully. We hand-picked all our boards - luckily it was a fairly small quantity. I think it could work well for screens ....and as long as you took First_Timer_Ray's advice about securing it to vertical bracing pieces, it should stay nice and straight. Thank you. Do I use timber floorboards for stairs or do people use timber treads? 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