Western Red Cedar
Built to last for indoors and outdoors
Western Red Cedar
Western Red Cedar is well-known for its longevity and natural resilience. It features exceptional resistance to warping, decay, and insects. This lightweight wood offers outstanding dimensional stability and a rich, warm color palette, making it highly versatile for indoor and outdoor applications, saunas, and playground equipment. Its flexibility and light weight make it easy to work with for both interior and exterior projects.
Notable Characteristics
Low radial & tangential shrinkage
Excellent dimensional stability
Natural durability
Appropriate for furniture usage
Good thermal insulation
Having low thermal conductivity
Pleasant natural scent
Enhancing sensory experience
Excellent working properties
Planes & shapes well
Rich & warm color
Versatile for indoor & outdoor
Western Red Cedar’s Properties
- 85/15 CLEAR (equiv. FAS)
- #2 SHOP & BTR (equiv. 1COM)
- FACTORY FLITCH / SHOP FLITCH
- Rough 7/4 x 4 & wider, 4 x 4 & wider
- Exterior: Western Red Cedar provides excellent durability and dimensional stability for outdoor use in roofing shingles, exterior siding, exterior cladding, weather boarding, greenhouses, portable buildings, poles, posts, fences, and ship/boat building. Because it splinters less frequently than other types of wood, it’s also popular for decking and outdoor furniture. While lumber is often sold unseasoned, kiln drying greatly increases product stability.
- Interior: This attractive wood is popular for millwork and for sash, ceiling, and wall panelling. Its dimensional stability suits it to sauna panelling, moldings, and window blinds, and its superb acoustic resonance properties make it a good choice for musical instruments.
- This fairly lightweight wood is moderately soft and lowstrength, has good machining qualities, planes and shapes well, and can be sanded to a smooth, satiny finish. Western Red Cedar glues easily, has moderate nail and screw holding ability, and polishes well. Hot-dipped galvanized or stainlesssteel nails are essential for use with this wood, as its natural acidity can accelerate metal corrosion and leave a black stain when the wood is wet. Stainless steel, brass, aluminium, copper, or metals with a protective coating can be used when applying fittings, fixtures, or fasteners.
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