Kwila Wood Flooring

Do you want to get merbau or kwila hardwood from one of the top timber suppliers in brisbane.

Kwila wood flooring. Kwila is hard wearing easy to work with and has good strength durability and excellent stability. Kwila is a dense timber and very strong commonly used as an attractive timber floor with dark warm golden brown colour and flecks of gold that you can see in sunlight. It is susceptible to tannin bleed appearing as a red brown stain. Prices should be moderate for an imported hardwood.

Kwila is suitable for superior joinery including staircase materials handrails and posts. Merbau or kwila is the perfect product for the biggest of your home improvement projects including timber decking and flooring. Kwila decking 19mm thick should be installed at maximum 450mm joist centres. Kwila is a naturally oily wood with high tannin content.

Kwila heart wood is yellow brown brown or dark red red brown turning to a dark red brown with age. All hardwood decking timber will weather to a silver grey if left to do so. Kwila instsia spp is a south east asian tropical hardwood used for extensively for decking in nz. It has a rich dark brown colour with flecks of yellow often noticeable.

Call 07 3888 1293. Kwila is a high quality strong and durable hardwood. Kwila is the most well known hardwood decking timber in use in new zealand. For 32mm thick decking this can be increased up to 600mm joist centres.

All decking is available with an optional coat of factoryoil on all four faces prior to delivery. The wood is hard and heavy. Kwila wood flooring water based polyurethane finish. Attractive gold to reddy brown coloured timber which will age to driftwood grey if left to weather.

This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices but is on the iucn red list. Available in dressed boards. It has become popular in new zealand and australia where it is in high demand for decking outdoor furniture and high quality interior finishing s. Given that radiata pine joists are softwood and kwila is a strong hardwood the joists should be clean and sound and the screws should penetrate at least 40mm into the joists to achieve good holding.

Its only downside it water soluble tannins that leech from the timber with exposure to water a process called bleeding.