- Sawn to Size Air Dried Oak
Prime Grade
Proven to bring real efficiency and labour savings to your joinery process, our Sawn to Size product is designed to make producing Oak joinery predictable and streamlined. Selected from our extensive board stocks and cut directly to your final sawn sizes, our experienced team check each piece for quality and straightness at each stage, finally marking it up with the dimensions/your coding for easy reference.
Seasoned naturally to achieve a moisture content relative to the outdoor environment, Air Dried is well suited to external applications such as gates, exposed external doors and balustrades. Due to the controlled and gradual seasoning process, air dried boards can be produced in Prime Grade up to 120mm thick, providing unrivalled quality for larger sections. The timber arrives at your workshop quality assured and ready for final preparation – ensuring a premium product and delivering significant time/labour savings.
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- Suitable for use in outdoor applications
- Quality assured - Prime grade sections
- Minimal & easy handling, minimising your production time
- No wastage worries or hassle
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Product Details
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Grade overview
Clear, straight grained sections, generally consistent in colour. European grade QF1A/B. Air dried timber may contain slight splitting across the timber surfaces as a result of the natural seasoning process. This is not considered a defect.
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Moisture content
18 - 100mm: 18 - 25% | 120mm: 23 - 28%
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Supplied finish
Sawn
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Density
800kg/m³
Hewins Prime Grade oak is the choice for high quality, clean and clear appearance joinery, furniture and fit out production. The majority of pieces are 3–4 sides clear, and mostly clean and free from knots with a tolerance for a few smaller, workable defects. This grade is our most popular grade and is widely used for many different applications requiring clean, strong and clear grade oak. The overall finish of a project will appear with a clean and defect free finish especially if the joinery application involves a proportion of hidden faces. Perfectly suited for use in doors, windows, stairs, plus many other high-end building applications.
Largely clear sections free of features and generally consistent in colour. Approximately 70% of the pieces supplied will be free of defects on 3–4 faces. Each piece is graded on its most affected 1.5 linear metres, this ensures high overall quality. There is a limited allowance for small knots of up to 30mm in diameter in some of the pieces, These are restricted and will be the exception. The occasional sound feature greater than 30mm diameter is permitted where there is the absence of a build-up of other features. There can be traces of sap on the arises of the sections with a view to this being removed in the planing process. This grade is sometimes referred to as A Grade / 1st Grade.
For sections of 200mm or more in width, we would recommend assessing if these pieces need to be clean and clear on both faces. We offer a Prime Good One Face grade which could save money, timber and potential lead time with these wide sections. Enquire with the Sales Team for more information on this option if you feel this could be appropriate to your requirements.
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Thickness
27mm, 34mm, 41mm, 50mm, 54mm, 65mm, 80mm, 100mm
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Widths
10–400mm
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Lengths
0.3 to 6.5m
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