Timber
Ecoclad is available in FSC Pure European redwood.
FSC Certification
FSC is the only timber
certification scheme endorsed by all major environmental
NGOs such as Greenpeace, FOE and WWF. There are several levels of FSC
Certification. FSC Pure means that all timber
used is certified. Other grades include FSC Mixed, in which some
material is
FSC and some from 'controlled' (ie legally logged) sources and FSC
Recycled. For a company to offer an FSC Certified product, they must have been through a
rigorous auditing process to ensure 'chain of custody' of the timber used from
forest to product.
Green Building Store FSC Chain of Custody number: SA - COC - 1435.
Engineered timber
Engineered timber includes both lamination and finger jointing of timber, using
modern high performance adhesives. As well as offering the optimum use of
resources, this has three major advantages.
• Lamination increases stability of
timber
• Virtually no knots or surface defects
• Surface layers are cut to ensure that
grain is vertical to the surface, which
dramatically reduces the risk of surface movement and splits
Construction
Door and window sashes comb jointed.
Frames mortice and tenon jointed.
In compliance with BS EN 942.
Adhesive - modified PVA, D4 grade.