DIY: Outdoor Wood Mat

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We always like to provide all our readers with some do it yourself wood projects that are simple and add a personal touch to your home.

This time we’d like to invite you to create a modern and very durable wooden welcome mat. It’ll be a project that will require only a few tools and even simple materials. We always suggest using the best materials like ipe but, you can use any other wood you like.

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Brazilian Wood For Dinner?

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It wasn’t too long ago that plastic was being used for almost everything: lunchboxes, building materials, and even dinner plates. However, restaurants and fast food chains, have slowly started to evolve their image, moving from fast, convenient, and on-the-go to a more refined model that prioritizes the customer experience. As part of this change, many restaurants, both fast and traditional, have begun to use wood in the presentation of their food.

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How To Convert Square Feet to Linear Feet

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The lumber industry has a lot of terms that are often very tough to navigate especially if it’s the first time anyone considered buying wood. Most wood products are sold per piece or per square foot. Often a lot of people won’t know how to convert from square feet to linear feet and if they order amounts per the square foot then there will be a very big shortage of material. Luckily we do provide a handy dandy square feet to linear feet calculator that’ll do the hard work and a page that explains what lumber sizing is! But, have you wondered how exactly the calculation happens?

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Thinking of Exotic Hardwoods for Your Project? Here’s What to Expect

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Wood is one the most beautiful and environmentally friendly products in the world. It comes in a variety of colors, textures, patterns, grain, and much more. It is a natural material that can’t be duplicated and sometimes it may be hard to envision exactly what will arrive at your doorstep after you place an order.

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How to Build a Horizontal Ipe Fence

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Ipe isn’t just for decking anymore. This versatile wood is perfect for a variety of outdoor projects because of its durability. Its strength and dimensional stability can make it a little harder to work with than other woods, but with a lifespan of 75 years, it’ll be worth it to put the little extra elbow …

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Advantage Deck Tiles

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We are fully stocked with Deck Tiles ready for shipment

They’re so quick and easy to install they’ll walk out the door!

We have a large quantity of beautiful, exotic Brazilian hardwood deck tiles in stock and we’re offering them to you at incredible wholesale pricing. Advantage Deck Tiles are available in ipe, cumaru, massaranduba and tigerwood. They’re exceptionally hard, durable and naturally resistance to pests, weather and decay. Our deck tiles are extremely low maintenance and naturally fire-resistant and slip-resistant.

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Odds and Ends

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You can achieve beautiful results with random pull decking orders.

Did you know there is an extensive amount of lumber wasted when manufacturing mills cut decking to even lengths? For example, to produce 12’ boards they’ll take 13’ boards, cut them down to even length, and discard the cut offs leaving massive piles of beautiful hardwood to waste.

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