Western Red Cedar and other species available from Cedar Sales
Western Red Cedar (Thuja Plicata) is renowned for its natural beauty and good physical properties that make it one of the world’s most unique softwood species.
Western Red Cedar, a beautiful wood has natural colouring in mellow ambers, reddish cinnamons and rich sienna browns.
Western Red Cedar’s warm colouring is complemented by a uniform, fine-grained texture with a satin lustre.
Natural durability: Western Red Cedar is one of the few wood species that are naturally at home in the outdoors.
Western Red Cedar is classified as a durable wood by the building codes across North America, which permits the use of its heartwood in exterior applications without preservative treatments.
Dimensional stability: Dimensional stability is essential for a wood product to maintain its shape during its service life. This is especially true of products that are subjected to the climatic changes of exterior applications.
Western Red Cedar has twice the stability of most commonly available conifers. This good resistance to warping, cupping and twisting makes them a ideal choice for use as sidings, decking, fencing and outdoor garden landscaping.
Density: At 22lbs/ft3 at 6% moisture content, Western Red Cedar is one of the lightest softwoods available.
Western Red Cedar’s specific gravity is a low 0.33. The light weight is the result of a larger percentage of lower density early wood and less high density late wood within the annual growth rings.
The lower density cells have air spaces that positively influence the insulating properties of the wood.
Thermal insulating properties: Western Red Cedar is a good thermal insulator. The low density and presence of air spaces make it the best insulator of any available softwood.
Western Red Cedar’s good thermal insulating properties protect a building from the extremes of heat and cold. Cedar Skirtings provide better thermal protection to alternatives such as concrete, brick and stone.
Other species: Western Red Cedar is available from Cedar Sales. Cedar Sales are also stockists of Clear Grade Oregon, Mebau/Kwilla, N.G. Rosewood, Surian, Malas and other species.
23-Nov-2007