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How can you tell if you need
oak, ash, elm, sweet chestnut or beech?
Or indeed how do you know that you are dealing with a hardwood rather
than a softwood?
If you are trying to match up
an existing beam or other piece of wood can you tell what wood it is? Elm was often used in old buildings, and
softwoods from Victorian times; and furniture may be elm, ash, oak, beech etc.
BTS offer a wood
identification service for indigenous hardwoods, costing just £25 for up to
three samples, or free with every timber order over £100. If you wish to take advantage of this service
we will need a small sample of the wood – about an inch long and quarter of an
inch thick and half an inch wide is plenty.
If you are uncertain whether a sample is softwood or hardwood, or
whether it may be a tropical hardwood (e.g. mahogany, teak) don’t worry, we
will tell you and if it is outside the range of timbers we identify
conclusively there will be no charge.
Guarantee
In the unlikely event that
BTS are unable to identify a sample no charge will be made.
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What wood is this? |
But what about this? |
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And this….same as
the previous one? |
And finally? |
For the answers keep
scrolling down…
New
unstained oak, old fumed oak, old elm, varnished ash.