When selecting your decking planks, always check that the timbers are either hardwood or pressure treated softwood.
If you use charcoal, buy products made from hardwood because soft woods burn at higher temperatures.
Despite its superior strength, teak wood is not too heavy, making export of the hardwood popular.
French Guiana's economy relies on the export of tropical hardwood and valuable seafood such as shrimp.
hardwood forests
The rolling hills of northern Wisconsin's glacial kettle moraine are densely forested with hardwood s, birch and aspen and pitted with potholes and lakes.
Even bedrooms are being tiled, though usually with radiant floor heat to take off the chill in winter, but more often with hardwood or engineered wood and area rugs.
‘The larger feed wheels work better in crooked trees, especially hardwood , and the maintenance costs are lower,’ he explains.
Kenegy owns a small mill and, with the hardwood he selectively harvests, produces high-quality furniture stock.
Fortunately, the building material used then was hardwood and it has survived well, especially given the severities of the tropical climate.
