Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering Re: Import or Australian made solid timber? 12Sep 13, 2010 4:11 pm dreamland u991386 Hi all, I am trying to work out which timber to go with for my floor and would appreciate your advice. I have found a small place that offers a very low price for Blue Gum solid timber - the price is equivalent to what other places are offering for floating floor. They claim that the timber is sourced from Australia but made oversea. I have been told by other places that timber made oversea are not climatised for Australian climate and does not meet Australian standards. So my questions are: 1. Has anyone run into problem with imported timber, or Australian timber manufactured oversea? 2. With the low price, what things should I look out for? (I am inspecting a job they did for a customer later today). Your advice would be much appreciated! Thanks, Bernado u991386 Hi all, I am trying to work out which timber to go with for my floor and would appreciate your advice. I have found a small place that offers a very low price for Blue Gum solid timber - the price is equivalent to what other places are offering for floating floor. They claim that the timber is sourced from Australia but made oversea. I have been told by other places that timber made oversea are not climatised for Australian climate and does not meet Australian standards. So my questions are: 1. Has anyone run into problem with imported timber, or Australian timber manufactured oversea? 2. With the low price, what things should I look out for? (I am inspecting a job they did for a customer later today). Your advice would be much appreciated! Thanks, Bernado Hi I just read this post as I'm researching on my flooring options now. I'm looking for a good quality solid timber floorings and the products I've seen and like are imported. I don't quite understand how if the wood is sourced from Australia but manufactured overseas can impact it's ability to climatise? Anyhow, i'm just wondering if you've gone ahead with the flooring and how it turned out? Appreciate your sharing. Cheers Naa I ended up tiling the whole area as it was too much headache and the cost was getting high. One of the things I have been told that could affect "climatisation" is how long the timber is held in the warehouse before it is laid. Apparently the timber should be held in the warehouse for a period of time (few months?) to enable it to adjust to the climate. But i'm no experts - so pls do more research . Re: Import or Australian made solid timber? 13Sep 14, 2010 5:13 pm The vast majority of pre-finished solid hardwood flooring - including Aust. hardwood - is machined and finished in China Whether the timber has sat in a warehouse in Sydney for 5 years or straight off a boat from China is completely irrelevant as far as acclimatistaion goes ACCLIMATISATION ONLY OCCURS IN THE HOUSE ITS BEING LAID IN - otherwise it is not being acclimatised Re: Import or Australian made solid timber? 14Sep 14, 2010 6:58 pm Quote: Whether the timber has sat in a warehouse in Sydney for 5 years or straight off a boat from China is completely irrelevant as far as acclimatistaion goes ACCLIMATISATION ONLY OCCURS IN THE HOUSE ITS BEING LAID IN - otherwise it is not being acclimatised Friends are getting blackbutt flooring laid next week and they were told that the timber was already acclimatised so it could be laid straightaway. We were told by a different company that the timber would need to be in the house for a week before being laid in our house. Re: Import or Australian made solid timber? 15Sep 14, 2010 7:43 pm Yes it will be acclimatised to the pack in the warehouse its sitting in - not to their house where it counts. People seem to get very confused about the definition of acclimatisation - it means adjusting to the specific climate. A climate in a warehouse or a mill or anywhere different to the house its being laid in is exactly that - DIFFERENT Re: Import or Australian made solid timber? 16Sep 14, 2010 8:23 pm That was what I thought - that the timber needed to acclimatise to where it's being laid. I thought it was a tad strange what they were told. Re: Import or Australian made solid timber? 17Sep 14, 2010 8:40 pm kid81 .............Also, Bamboo is one of the strongest and quietest timber species out there........ I know this is an old thread, but I think one misnomer that gets around a bit is the hardness of bamboo. The hardness of of Bamboo comes from the formaldehyde resin used to bind the bamboo strands together - not the bamboo itself. Engineering timber is certainly a less fuss option, times cheaper to supply and install and better withstands humidity. 1 16070 If this is a custom build then I would expect the builder to set out the door frame closer to the wall to avoid the gap between architrave and the wall and or specify… 9 8376 i imagine you also have another contract with an architect? and yeah, whatever other's said about special conditions and appendices 16 16138 |