Good durability and the possibility easily revamp the material by sanding. If it is not treated with glues, finishes and paints, scaffolding wood can be recycled into engineered wood products or fuel. Although it is softwood, scaffolding wood comes in thick planks that make sturdy furniture. They have had a colourful life on building sites and often display some of the following “imperfections”. Scaffolding wood is a safe material to keep in homes. The reclaimed scaffolding boards which we use for some of our commissions are super quirky and no two are ever the same.We make furniture from all sorts of traditional furniture making timber (which need no explanation)… but the reclaimed scaffolding boards, which have become a big trend recently, are unusual and need a bit of explanation, so here goes….They are always warped and twisted… no board is ever the same and they are never the same thickness or depth throughout their length… this is their characteristic because they were never sawn in the timber mills to be made into furniture… no cabinet maker wants to work with them for this reason, but a trend has arisen where they have become desirable for their quirks despite the challenges they present in working with… this is one of the reasons the cost of the furniture made using them can be expensive (the other, in our case, is that everything we make is bespoke)…Their are countless examples of warped and twisted features in the reclaimed scaffolding board furniture we produce (and in the samples we send out), but we ensure that everything that we make is fit for purpose and in our eyes beautiful… if you want something perfectly consistent we wouldn’t advise you to commission reclaimed scaffolding boards as the substrate for the build… we can, and do, use traditional furniture making timbers for commissions and you can see examples of oak, walnut, birch, ply etc on our website and in our online stores…We believe that this non-uniformity is the beauty… but we never allow the non-uniformity to overstep aesthetic and functional boundaries…
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