Decking termo-acacia

Acacia tree familiar to Ukrainians. It can be found everywhere in the squares and parks of the capital, along the streets and playgrounds, as well as along roadsides barrage in the forest belt. Despite on sharp spines, especially on young branches,people love this tree for its smell when it blooms in the spring. Acacia blooms in bunches of small white flowers, densely covering its prickly young branches. The smell is so strong that enough only one of the bouquet in the living room that would spread the fragrance throughout your home or apartment. Acacia flowers have healing medicinal properties. Of them harvested herbal teas, and beekeepers collect acacia honey.

Acacia tree has active root shoots and resumed a little too quickly. Therefore, if left unattended small area where it has taken root, then a couple of years, you can find real prickly and impassable thickets. That's where anyone who tries to eradicate it faced with unique properties of its wood!

Exotic woods - Australian, African and Mexican acacia.

Despite the widespread acacia in our country is a tree, not often seen in Europe. There products are increasingly Australian acacia, African or Mexican origin, and in a growing form is found except in greenhouses. Despite the similar name, and one family of European, Australian and Mexican acacia trees are different but with similar properties of wood.

Wood for decking board.

Acacia wood is extremely hard and heavy. Brinell hardness factor 4.0, and the density and viscosity close to the reference (690-750) kg/m3. It responds poorly to processing, and then only in its raw form, the cutting edge of the tool quickly become dull, polishing products from acacia is also problematic. But perhaps it is these qualities and fine texture of acacia wood makes it an excellent raw material for decking board.

Fiber structure terrace boards from acacia absently vascular, non-uniform, with a fancy decorative pattern. Color is yellow to olive, greenish tint. Annual rings texture dark brown, clearly visible to the heartwood almost black. African and Australian acacia species has a reddish tint.

Decking made from termo-acacia.

Decking made from acacia must undergo heat treatment. Modern methods of heat processing allow wood to heat up the temperature of its combustion. Thanks to this invention termo-acacia not afraid of the impact of water and increases its durability. Heat treatment of the decking board not only protects the product from moisture and frost, it is several times increases the service life of the wooden flooring and makes the board is not susceptible to rot and mildew and prevents damage by insects, termites and box elder bugs.

When installing the decking board of termo-acacia at fixing use groovy clips, avoiding drilling and wood chipping, and improving the overall appearance of the flooring and terraced surface.