The Pressure Treated Wood Used In Our Gazebos, Pool Cabanas, Pavilions and Pergolas – Gorgeous and Durable – Simply the Best!
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- Have you ever seen wood like this before?
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- and you will be surprised that our products are not that much more.
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- Tongue and Groove Gazebo Ceiling with double 2″ x 4″ rafters and 2″ x 4″ “Helpers”
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- Splitting and is beautiful too. The only way to make posts.
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- Notice the “Clear” wood and double 2″ x 6″ floor joists.
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- top plate and fascia. Just the best darn wood gazebo you’ll find anywhere
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- Not only to we buy the best lumber, we select and cut out the bad sections
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- we start with great material and end up with the best product possible.
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- These details are even more impressive in person
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- Abner and Rueben figured it out no problem.
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- the bad parts and either hide them or toss them.
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- competitors’ sales model
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- 2″ x 8″ lower rafters, and 2″ x 4″ upper rafters…beautiful and strong
Treatment – The treatment used is a brand name called Wolmanized µCA-C. It does not contain arsenic but rather copper and other chemicals and is safe for the environment. It has a lifetime guarantee against infestation by termites and fungus. The engineers at Good Housekeeping have deemed this product worthy of its seal.
Kiln Dried After Treatment – or KDAT. All builders use this type lumber or it would still be too wet to work with and would warp due to it’s high moisture content.
Wood Grade – A few builders use #2, but most use #1 Premium. We use #1 Premium Clear Grade which must be completely free from knots and defects. What is the difference between #1 Premium, and #1 Premium Clear hand selected? Clear lumber is going to have NO knots and all smooth edges.
Hand-Selecting, Cutting and Machining – We take every piece of visible lumber and run it through a shaper making even the floor boards smooth with rounded over edges. If we happen to get a board that isn’t quite right, we cut out the offending section and use the rest for small pieces. Our octagon and oval gazebo floors are made in pie shapes and we use the good parts for the smaller pieces, that way nearly all of the wood gets used.
What about the floor joists? – The #1 and #2 lumber we use in our floors is more structurally sound than what is used in your house. We don’t use clear lumber where it’s not going to be seen.
How Much? – There are a lot of things a builder could skimp on figuring that a lot of people might not know the difference. You have a lot of choices to make, from whether or not you want a double roof, to whether it’s worth it for the turned posts and scalloped fascia you’d like to have. Did you know that some builders use 5/4” decking instead of 2” decking? Or that solid 4”x4” posts always crack and that 3 piece laminated posts don’t? Or that 9 out of 10 builders use single 2”x4”’s in their roof rafters? What about the top of the railing? It would be a lot cheaper for us to do what everyone else does and use 2”x3”’s, but instead, we use 2”x4”’s which means we also have to sand down the area by each post so that it’s smooth.
