Outdoor Redwood Furniture is a joy to the eye and adds character to your deck this wood has the strength and durability to last. To do justice to the Redwood this furniture has to be overbuilt.
Redwood More About the Wood
Like all other woods, Redwood also comes in different grades; this of course depends from which part of the tree trunk a board is cut. How the wood grew, the environmental conditions and the direction in which the wood was cut.
Good quality Redwood furniture is made from prime quality Redwood usually from trees in the 50 - 80 years age range. Redwood grades vary from con-common to A-grade clear. Most boards have open grain (less than eight growth rings per inch).
There is just one main difference between mature Redwood and "Redwood". The difference is sapwood. Sapwood is the wood that grew the last 20 years before harvesting Generally speaking sapwood is less decay resistant than the older "heartwood" which grew over 20 years ago.
Sapwood is easily spotted because of its vanilla/tan color. The prime heartwood of the Redwood grade is has the light reddish brown of the Mature Redwood. Heartwood is more durable than the sapwood and in fact Age does Matter.
The older the tree the better the wood, the more durable the furniture made from it, simple and true. The Wood resistance to decay increases as a tree ages. Compared to old-growth, young wood has less resistance because it takes centuries of slow growth to develop great decay resistance.
Forever Redwood produces high quality handmade tables and benches The Company is widely known for the skill, expertise and ecological methods of collecting and harvesting wood some pieces of lumber in old-growth furniture can be over 1500 years of age and have been in the open for 130 years.
The Old-Growth furniture is made from left over logs that have been out in the harsh unforgiving circumstances of the Redwood forest, and are therefore guaranteed not to decay in any climate for 30 years. Because the trees grew slowly in very competitive environment, most boards have a very tight grain. You'll often find more than 10 growth rings per inch
Forever Redwood benches are all hand built with thick over-sized boards of high quality Redwood. This Redwood Patio furniture is really built to survive the abuse of children, and to withstand rain, snow, wind or in short the weather. And what's even better it hardly requires maintenance.
Because of their commitment to regenerate, conserve the forest their old-growth furniture is all made from wood that is left over from the period that intensive logging destroyed a great part of the old Redwood forest. We cannot undo what happened in the past, but we can make restorations to what's been damaged
The company's conservative forest management practices works with the forest to naturally bring back the giant old trees overtime. The core idea of forest management is to harvest a lot less the can forest produce. With the help of this simple rule the old forest grows larger with each passing decade
The company Forever Redwood makes a contribution to the restoration of the old forest and produces the best red wood outdoor furniture at the same time.
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