About our planed meranti products.
Is meranti hardwood or softwood.
What can this timber be used for.
Meranti is not subject to warping or twisting and is dent resistant.
On the janka scale a scale that ranks wood for hardness meranti varieties rank between 800 and 825.
Our premier planed softwood is sourced from slow grown scandinavian redwood resulting in outstanding quality that is admired amongst our customers.
Colour and grain vary from sheet to sheet.
Slightly durable can vary in durability working qualities.
Ply s are laminated with wbp glue allowing the panel to be exposed to weather water and moisture for a long period of time without delamination.
It easily machines cuts mills and sands.
Cladding joinery interior and exterior flooring furniture cabinet work general construction boatbuilding and much more.
Frequently asked questions about meranti hardwood timber.
Dark red meranti is used for.
Workability meranti is one of the easier hardwoods with which to work.
Hardwoods generally come from broad leafed deciduous trees such as oak beech and mahogany.
Malaysian dark red meranti varies in colour from pale pink white to dark red purple.
Douglas fir a softwood ranks 660.
Meranti ranges from pale red to reddish brown.
Meranti is a hardwood.
The density can also vary substantially as there are numerous sub species.
The wood is capable of a good smooth surface and the various species can be glued nailed and screwed satisfactorily.
For the sake of comparison red oak ranks 1 290.
Classifying wood as either a hardwood or softwood comes down to its physical structure and makeup and so it is overly simple to think of hardwoods as being hard and durable compared to soft and workable softwoods.
The thing that defines a hardwood from a softwood is the presence of special pores in the cellular structure of the wood itself.
Due to the number of variations being marketed under the botanical species name shorea yet.
Cladding exterior and interior joinery.
Red meranti can be glued well but due to its high density it is advised to use special heavy duty glue.
Carefully selected joinery grade redwood which is more dense and stable ensuring crisp cuts for clean and accurate joints we also insist on having our timber cut to its final size and then.
Meranti is mainly used for joinery furniture and light construction.
This happens to be generally true but there are exceptions such as in the cases of wood from yew trees a softwood that is relatively hard and wood from balsa trees a.
Plywood with meranti face ply s and mixed meranti core ply s.
Alsford timber reserve the right to supply and invoice timber in lengths to make up the meterage required according to stock availability at the time.
All of our branches stock meranti hardwood.
