Choosing local wood for your carpentry project
Carpentry Quotes
from local carpenters
So you have a carpentry project, and it might be to build a deck or pergola, build a new wardrobe or even part of a bigger job extending your home. When choosing your wood, taking it's origin and locality into consideration is a good way to reduce costs and your carbon footprint. Buying wood sourced close from home reduces your carbon footprint because it's taken less resources to transport the wood to you. Not only that, but locally sourced wood should be a more competitive price too.
The Forest Network has put together a useful table of the types of wood that are grown in Australia, and also narrowed it down to local area wherever possible. Click here for the Good Wood Guide.
- Did you know? There are two main types of wood ie HARDWOOD and SOFTWOOD. Interestingly enough this doesn't actually refer to the hardness or softness of wood and is just an accepted system. A more appropriate way to classify wood would be 'deciduous' or 'conifer'.
- Did you know? Once a log is cut into boards it becomes lumbar or timber, and when very thinly slices it becomes a veneer.
Carpentry Quotes
from local carpenters
