This order of resawn recycled Douglas Fir has been planed to nominal sizing and left wild for the client to cut to exact length on site. This order is for a professional builder who understands the merits of choosing Recycled Douglas Fir over Green or recently logged Douglas Fir Timber.
For a start; recycled timber is DRY. Reclaimed wood is better than recently logged timber for several reasons, primarily related to strength, stability, and longevity. When timber is freshly logged, it contains a significant amount of moisture, which weakens its structural integrity and makes it prone to warping, cracking, and shrinking as it dries out. This can cause problems in construction, where precise dimensions and stability are crucial.
Last Mountain Timber’s recycled timber, on the other hand, has already lost its cellular moisture content through a natural process, having air-dried over decades inside buildings and Grain Elevators. This drying process enhances its strength and durability, making it more suitable for load-bearing structures. When we are milling recycled timber for orders, we select appropriate timber, reading the cracks and checks that occurred during the natural drying process and we can therefore offer truly square, STABLE timber for the best structural integrity; be it for a post, beam or rafter responsibility.
Dry timber is also more resistant to fungal decay, pests, and mold, which thrive in moist wood. It also provides better insulation properties, making it more energy-efficient for buildings.
While speaking of dry timber; it is lighter and easier to work with than green timber that still has all of the cellular moisture, and yet, our clients understand why our timber has a “heft”. The second remarkable benefit of LMT Recycled Douglas Fir is its STRENGTH. Our Timber is OLD GROWTH Timber; these timbers would have been logged in the late 1800s and early 1900s from the original, First-Growth, and naturally grown forests from Coastal and Interior Douglas Fir stands. The original ecosystems produced trees that grew slower than in the planted forests of today. First-growth timber typically has a much higher ring density and is, therefore, denser and stronger. You can literally feel the weight of these timbers, the density and the difference in strength.
Overall, using Recycled Douglas Fir timber in construction ensures more reliable and long-lasting results, as it is the most stable, durable, reliable and of course environmentally conscious and responsible.