Western Redwood Cedar Cladding
When first installed this timber cladding is a warm reddish brown colour.
Western redwood cedar cladding. 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. 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. 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.
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. Slow grown in the pacific north west of canada and sourced from leading sawmills. Canadian western red s colour. British western red cedar wood cladding the majority of western red cedar wood used in the uk is imported.
If left untreated it turns the. Zero knots and a tight even grain. In short canadian western red cedar cladding is good value looks great and can last a lifetime. 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.
For environmentally friendly building materials wood is a clear leader. Western red cedar cladding from millworks is attractive sustainable and has exceptional performance. Cedar a softwood is highly resistant to decay as well as resistant to splitting and movement once fitted.