FSC Certified Wood Species Brazilian Teak, Cumaru, & Tigerwood Boost LEED Green Building

With the supply of certified FSC wood like ipe in short supply, species like FSC Brazilian Teak & Tigerwood are gaining favor amond architects, planners, and contractors that specialize in green building. By expanding the amount of available Brazilian hardwoods to the market, the strain on other FSC wood options like ipe can be alleviated. …

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Green Decking Options – 5 Things You Need to Know

Tigerwood is a green decking option.
A Tigerwood deck highlights how wood decking is beautiful, versatile, & eco-friendly.

These days, being green and using eco-friendly products is more than a trend. Our whole economy is starting to recognize and value materials and items that have been manufactured and/or promote a healthy, green, and eco-savvy lifestyle. Even the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has shown us that there can be a heavy price to pay when we rely too much on environmentally problematic and damaging resources and materials.

What does this have to do with wood decking?

Well, there is a huge marketing push led by composite decking companies to cast all wood decking as non-eco-friendly. These companies want you to believe that all wood decking comes from illegal logging and that it decimates the world’s forests. Here’s the truth, as an FSC certified lumber supplier, the wood decking that we sell here at Advantage comes from eco-friendly forestry practices.

Here are 5 things you need to know about Green Decking:

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Composite Decking Tropical Wood Marketing Campaign Unravels On Earth Day

This Earth Day, Advantage Lumber, LLC is advising the public to carefully review and question the claims and warranty information that these products come with. The claims of composite decking companies make are being disputed by actual customers. Mold, discoloration, and decomposing composite deck boards are some of the problems that have led to government …

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Reader Feedback Helps Make this Blog Better

To anyone who regularly reads, or just found this Hardwood decking blog for the first time, I just wanted to say, THANKS! Hopefully you’ve found the posts here to be helpful. Sure, some of them are opinionated, but everything on this blog is backed by facts, reviews, and customer experiences. With that said, I’d like …

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