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Timber Specifications
Timber is one of the oldest known building materials. It has been used in buildings across the world for thousands of years. Timber is a natural, renewable material that is both beautiful and durable. As such, it is specified for a broad range of applications in Australian design
To help you choose the right timber for your next job we have a hardness and durability table for flooring & decking. This will give you not only the Common names, but also Botanical names, the area from which it is harvested, its hardness otherwise known as Janka rating, and its outdoor durability class.
We have a summary guide to the Australian Standard 2796.2 grading rules for Australian Hardwood Sawn & Milled Timber products. Also attached is a Mechanical properties of Wood from the USA.
When you visit our centre you can pick up a free technical advisory brochure "Structural Timber products guide". It is a guide for designers, specifiers, builders and timber uses in general. It is also available from our online bookshop, postage and handling charges apply.
Mechanical properties of Wood USA (1.21Mb)- Summary of timber grading rules (114Kb)
- Timber hardness & durability table 2011 (89Kb)
