Plywood with meranti face ply s and mixed meranti core ply s.
Is meranti a hardwood or softwood.
Stained meranti hardwood left next to stained pine softwood right stained oak hardwood.
On the janka scale a scale that ranks wood for hardness meranti varieties rank between 800 and 825.
Because of its stability it can be used for a wide variety of applications.
All of our branches stock meranti hardwood.
About our planed meranti products.
Workability meranti is one of the easier hardwoods with which to work.
Due to the number of variations being marketed under the botanical species name shorea yet.
Classifying wood as either a hardwood or softwood comes down to its physical structure and makeup and so it is overly simple to think of hardwoods as being hard and durable compared to soft and workable softwoods.
Meranti is a hardwood.
Red meranti can be glued well but due to its high density it is advised to use special heavy duty glue.
Douglas fir a softwood ranks 660.
Ply s are laminated with wbp glue allowing the panel to be exposed to weather water and moisture for a long period of time without delamination.
Meranti is mainly used for joinery furniture and light construction.
The density can also vary substantially as there are numerous sub species.
The thing that defines a hardwood from a softwood is the presence of special pores in the cellular structure of the wood itself.
For the sake of comparison red oak ranks 1 290.
Hardwoods generally come from broad leafed deciduous trees such as oak beech and mahogany.
Meranti ranges from pale red to reddish brown.
Alsford timber reserve the right to supply and invoice timber in lengths to make up the meterage required according to stock availability at the time.
Malaysian dark red meranti varies in colour from pale pink white to dark red purple.
Meranti is a soft to firm hardwood timber.
Deciding on whether to choose a hardwood a softwood or a modified timber for your windows and doors depends on a number of factors such as your particular requirements the properties of different woods and your budget.
We stock a range of planed softwood timbers from the very best our premier planed softwood that we machine ourselves to a lower grade but decent quality softwood ideal for projects where the finish is not that critical.
About our planed hardwoods.
It is generally easy to machine and imported grade is mainly selects better.
Colour and grain vary from sheet to sheet.
Meranti there is a wide variation in the strength properties of the various merantis due to the differences in density and the number of species involved.
