Sweet Chestnut Cladding

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The fleshy nut is sweet with a starchy texture and has a low fat content, resembling a cereal grain. The nuts are eaten as traditional foods in much of Asia and Europe, where they are consumed fresh, cooked, candied, and as a source of flour for pastries. The chestnut tree is in the same family as beeches and oaks (Fagaceae). The for-

Sweet Chestnut Finger Jointed 25 X 150 Vertical Half Lap Cladding K/D

May 4, 2021 Comparing Oak and Sweet Chestnut cladding Oak and sweet chestnut are great options for timber cladding, and our latest video compares these two timbers, to help with your decision making. Oak is the UK's favourite hardwood. It's strong, hard and tough but it can be unstable.

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Likewise, European oak and sweet chestnut trees are naturally durable temperate hardwoods. Both can naturally last up to 30 years although oak especially can be quite an expensive option. Both woods are corrosive to metals so specific fixings need to be considered.

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In favourable situations sweet chestnut attains a height of 30m or more and a maximum diameter of 1.8m with a straight, unbranched bole of about 6m, but in less favourable conditions, the undivided bole is little more than 3m long after which it divides off into several huge limbs so that the general character of the tree is altered. Wood type.

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British Sweet Chestnut is an indigenious hardwood specie often used for external timber cladding. Discover all you need to know about it here, as well as how it can be used to create an outstanding exterior to your building.

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Unlike oak, sweet chestnut is stable and relatively lightweight for a hardwood. Being dry and relatively free of knots, sweet chestnut is suited to machined profiles. The natural stability of the wood helps to maintain straight lines as the cladding boards weather.

Sweet Chestnut cladding supplied by Vincent Timber

Sweet chestnut is strong, durable and relatively light when compared to other types of hardwood cladding. Additionally, sweet chestnut is a very stable timber, resulting in less movement, distortion or splitting.

Sweet Chestnut cladding supplied by Vincent Timber

Sweet Chestnut Cladding InWood Developments pioneered the use of sweet chestnut as both an exterior and interior cladding material over twenty years ago. It is a unique timber species that offers similar benefits and character to Oak, but with a number of environmental and sustainability benefits.

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Now, with the RIBA specification list featuring sweet chestnut cladding among its one hundred best products, architects are looking at the material with interest and curiosity. Some of this is to do with BBM being a committed sustainable practice and sweet chestnut being a local resource, readily available in the South East, with about 21, 000.

Sweet Chestnut Finger Jointed 25 X 150 Horizontal Half Lap Cladding K/D

What's in a name? Sweet Chestnut or Castanea Sativa, sativa meaning cultivated by humans, probably because the nuts (Chestnuts!) are edible (if cooked properly!) It's the same species as the European Chestnut, the Spanish Chestnut or otherwise know as just plain old Chestnut, but also Marron. Describing Sweet Chestnut

Sweet Chestnut Finger Jointed 25 X 150 Horizontal Half Lap Cladding K/D

Sweet Chestnut Cladding We dry sweet chestnut naturally for a year to improve the stability of the cladding boards. We offer sweet chestnut either in solid random lengths or in 4.0mt finger jointed boards. Call us to discuss your cladding project CALL US Find Out More

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Sweet Chestnut is available in a wide range of cladding and decking profiles and can either be supplied in solid timber or finger jointed, which has considerable benefits such as longer lengths (up to 6.1m). Finger jointed can also be produced to specification, thus reducing wastage.

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SWEET CHESTNUT FINGER-JOINTED CLADDING Wood is a natural, ecological, recyclable material with magnificent insulating properties. It helps to reduce energy consumption and minimizes the carbon footprint, in addition to offering multiple technical and creative possibilities.

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Sweet chestnut is increasingly used in exterior cladding thanks to its natural durability, which makes it a good alternative to imported larch or cedar, but very little of this timber is used in other building applications.. Coppiced sweet chestnut is a significant timber resource in Europe (Unrau et al. Citation 2018; Marini et al. Citation.

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Sweet Chestnut Also naturally durable with no need for preservative treatment clean and clear appearance - very similar to Oak - available in very long (6.0m) lengths.