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San Francisco Decking Supplier

Don the Deck Board Expert — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:16:20 +0000

San Francisco evidently loves ipe. Sales of decking to the SF Bay area have always been strong but it seems that since there has been a restructuring of the export laws in Brazil and ipe decking is flowing, legally and in a controlled manner, that sales to the San Francisco area have gone through the roof.

Many tropical woods are being shipped to the San Francisco area according to my friends at Deck San Francisco, but the most popular in the area is easily, ipe decking. There’s lots of reason too.

In general tropical decking is less expensive than premium fake wood decking material like composite decking, vinyl decking etc. On top of that the tropical hardwoods look better and outperform composites decking (by a huge margin!) in all areas including strength, longevity, environmental issues, mold resistance, rot resistance and even wood boring/eating insect resistance. Of all the tropical hardwoods, ipe decking is the King of all decking.

So if you own a home or you’re a deck builder (psst. they WILL sell wholesale decking in deck builder, industrial or lumber yard type quantities) you owe it yourself to check out the amazing offerings this site has. they even list their prices right on their web site.

Still not convinced that ipe is the king of decking? Then learn more about ipe decking.

Cocbolo Hunters

Don the Deck Board Expert — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:08:32 +0000

Every now and then I meet a woodworker that loves to work with woods with a unique look and that look great when polished. The most famous is cocobolo wood. Most of the people who work with exotic lumber know that it’s rare, even the wood workers (after all they pay the higher costs for this wood, thus probably know why it’s so much more expensive than other exotic hardwoods). But while realizing it’s rarity and beauty they at the same time don’t have a clue as to how it’s harvested. Once you learn that cocobolo is usually harvested a single tree at a time then a lot of you most common questions about cocobolo will be answered.

Check out the video above. It’s first in a series of videos from some of my lumber industry friends. The series follows them through the little adventure that is harvesting cocobolo lumber. In this first short and sweet episode, our intrepid party finds themselves, suddenly, alone in the the Mexican rain forest wondering if their guide will come back. Was the rigors of Cocobolo hunting too much for him? Did my friends mis-translate something and offended the guide? Did something eat him? Did he get eaten?

The Ontario Wave Deck

Don the Deck Board Expert — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:43:16 +0000

Well Ontario sure built a huge ipe deck! Actually we’ve seen boardwalks and and such that had much more board feet of decking material before, but this one is certainly interesting. It’s “wave shaped” (see video below). It’s meant to be interesting and draw people to downtown. Here’s a quick video tour:

It make sense that they would use ipe deck boards. they have to be sturdy, for durability it always makes sense to use ipe deck boards as they will easily last over 40 years with any maintainence, and damn do those deck boards look great with the sun shining on them like that!. did you notice the ipe wood benches the deck builder created to go with this deck?

Here’s a video showing how much the kids love it: