Wormy Chestnut Timber Flooring

Ridgewood has been importing wholesaling and distributing timber panel and forestry products to the australian market for over 30 years.

Wormy chestnut timber flooring.

These trees stunt their own growth to cope with drought occasional flooding wildfires and winds. The timber is named for its characteristics rather than its species and comes from a blend of eucalyptus obliqua eucalyptus sieberi and eucalyptus fastigata. Ask about this timber australian wormy chestnut data sheet. Feature standard better sold as.

With a wormy chestnut floor no two boards will be the same. 85mm 130mm 180mm thickness. Just arrived from a barn salvage project this wormy chestnut will make some beautiful furniture or flooring. Wormy chestnut is found in the forest of south eastern australia.

As hardwood timber flooring it differs from most other timber species. Timber species wr timbers stock over 45 australian and international timber species to assure you will find the right wood for your needs. Chestnut wormy flooring. The resulting tracks of the chestnut timber worm are more commonly known as shot worm holes.

It is not just beautiful and full of character it. The timber is extraordinarily straight grained harvested from australia s tallest hardwood species the texture is uniform generally straight open and even but sometimes coarse grained or fiddle backed. Australian wormy chestnut timber. The shot worm holes are the defining characteristic of wormy chestnut millions of board feet of standing deadwood chestnut were harvested for industrial residential furniture and construction purposes.

With each piece of timber left with a mark from nature you will see deep red gum veins which are formed by fire where a suitable coating can be used to bring out the grain and. Australian wormy chestnut sometimes known as firestreak does not actually come from a chestnut tree at all. Technical data density 800 modulus of rupture mpa dry 118 radial shrinkage 3 5 hardness janka. Australian wormy chestnut timber for sale.

It is a very durable blend designed for decades of use. Australian wormy chestnut flooring will not collect dust or conceal dirt making it a natural choice for asthma and hay fever sufferers. We import species from canada europe south east asia usa and new zealand whilst also holding agencies and procuring local species from western australia tasmania queensland new south wales and victoria. Australian chestnut brings together three distinct eucalyptus species messmate southern beech and silvertop black ash native to the south east of australia.