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Sustainable Flooring and Decking

Bamboo Select

Worldwide and in Australia, Bamboo is now suggested as a serious flooring alternative. A sustainable renewable resource that is one of the most striking, hardwearing and unique products on the market today.

Yes, Bamboo! The product has been around for many years and is popular in commercial applications but only now, as we become more environmentally aware, is its popularity growing and becoming more common in the residential market.

Bamboo Select's flooring and associated products are non-toxic, allergy free, environmentally friendly, durable and repel termites. Quick and easy to install - they are delivered already coated in a matte, gloss or semi-gloss finished product and delivered in recyclable packaging.

Because they are already coated, this eliminates the unnecessary mess and dangerous fumes normally associated with onsite sanding and polishing.

There are 3 basic styles: Horizontal, Vertical and Strand Woven. All of these styles of board are available as standard width or the increasing popular wide board, and come in both short and the popular long board.

In the past, the most limiting aspect of bamboo flooring is that it did not come in a wide range of colours. The standard colours offered are generally only two: a natural colour, very much like the bamboo trunk, as well as a darker golden brown color.
Bamboo Select has exciting news for the environmentally aware that are searching for a range of colored bamboo. We now have bamboo in all styles. The standard colours are Chocolate, Black, Cherry and Limewash and you can choose many other colours; just allow a lead-time of 10 to 12 weeks for delivery.

Bamboo flooring can now be supplied as a fine sanded raw product, matched to a colour of your choice, then sealed and polished on site.

Independent tests have shown that bamboo, particularly the Strand Woven product, has a greater hardness than many hardwood timbers. Bamboo floorboards can be installed over plywood, particleboard and concrete sub-floors.

Different manufacturers recommend different installation methods. Some prefer to glue and secret nail while others prefer a floating floor method and, of course, the flooring can be installed by direct stick method onto a concrete slab. A DIY enthusiast can also install the product but, if doing so, should always follow manufacturer's instructions.

Maintenance of bamboo floors is quite easy: just use a damp mop for cleaning when required. Any spills should be cleaned immediately.

If exposed to direct sunlight over long periods, bamboo flooring can darken so direct sunlight should be avoided. Timber flooring generally fades under the same conditions.

As dust mites cannot be harboured, bamboo is an excellent choice for asthma and allergy sufferers.

Aside from the benefit of using an environmentally sustainable resource, bamboo floors feel and look good, are durable, easy to clean and unique and elegant in style. And when your friends see it, they will be surprised and say "Bamboo? Really - how unique!"

Bamboo Select has developed strategic relationships with suppliers and manufacturers in order to ensure a product range of consistent quality. All our flooring products are solid boards not a veneer.

Bamboo Select's other products include:

1) Bamboo quad, skirting and finishing mouldings for the flooring
2) Bamboo flooring for heating systems
3) Distressed' Bamboo flooring
4) Zebrano' Bamboo flooring
5) Furniture Boards for bench tops or wall panels
6) Stairs and stair treads
7) Our newest product is Bamboo Decking, arriving soon.

At all times we are consciously aware of the need to provide renewable sustainable resource products from plantation growth forests.

http://www.bambooandtimber.com.au

Bowerbird Timbers

Bowerbird provides ethically collected, kiln-dried solid timbers for fit-out and construction, including decking, benchtops, kitchen benches, outdoor furniture and more.

Unique timbers, saved in the urban forest...

From cedar planted by Ferdinand von Mueller to cypress and natives from suburbs and farms. Trees which have fallen to wind, development or age, now starting new lives.

Timber with history, timber with character.

Bowerbird provides ethically collected, kiln-dried solid timbers for fit-out and construction.

Many of our timbers are unique. Each comes with its own history; all are price-competitive, all are correctly graded.

We provide our standard products in a massive range of species and, because there is such a variety growing in the urban forest, we have an ever-changing range of rarer timbers.

We can meet your need for everyday timbers. We can amaze you with the choice available for special projects.

Our website is up-dated almost daily. It offers descriptions of timbers (usually with photos) along with measurements and prices.

Our product range...

DECKING TIMBERS
Reclaimed / re-machined

Standard sizes available in Macrocarpa Cypress
INTERNAL & EXTERNAL CLADDINGS
Macrocarpa Cypress in our standard sizes
Other species available
KILN DRIED BARTOPS / BENCHTOPS & SLABS
Huge range of species available: call for a quote or search our website for inspiration
KITCHEN TOPS TO ORDER
Choose from our vast showroom; online quotes available
OUTDOOR FURNITURE

Made to order or standard stock available
POST & BEAM TIMBERS
POA
RADIAL SAWN WEATHERBOARDS
Availability dependent on log stocks

SAWMILLING & SANDING SERVICES
Check the website for details

STAIR TREADS & BALUSTERS
Wide board stocks available

Unusual Requests & Challenging Jobs
You may have a project that demands a particular effect. You may know the answer is timber, but you're not sure which timber.

That's what we're here for. Pick up the phone, email us or wander through our website and you'll start to see how many ways we can help you.

Best of all, come out to Millgrove (come on, you've earned a break) and take a look first-hand at all the timbers we can show you.

The feel and smell of honestly-won timber which has been selected, sawn and kiln-dried by people who know their stuff and love to share it: that's something we can't deliver any way other than in person.

But you can start here:

Phone 03 5966 5966 or 0417 384 069
or email info@bowerbirdtimber.com.

http://www.bowerbirdtimber.com

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