Quality Cypress
Cypress is an economical and sustainable softwood timber, plentiful in NSW and QLD. The highly durable species is naturally termite resistant making it ideal for building and construction applications such as cladding, fencing and landscaping, while the features of Cypress timber creates an appealing and unmistakable flooring product.
White cypress is a softwood timber species growing to a height of up to 25 metres and a stem diameter of 0.6 metres. It is commonly found throughout Victoria, western New South Wales and central western Queensland.
In contrast to a creamy-white band of sapwood, the heartwood of this species ranges in colour from light yellow through orange to light brown, with occasional dark brown streaks. Grain is generally straight with a very fine and even texture. The presence of numerous tight knots is a distinctive feature that produces a strikingly decorative figure on exposed faces.
Natural resins in the wood impart a distinctive odour to white cypress and are believed to contribute to the timber’s impressive natural durability. Heartwood is resistant to termites. Life expectancy for above ground applications is greater than 40 years and up to 25 years in-ground. Both the sapwood and the heartwood of this species resist impregnation with commercially available preservatives.
In terms of hardness, white cypress is a firm timber (rated 4 on a 6-class scale in relation to both indentation and hand tooling). It can be satisfactorily machined and turned to a smooth finish. Pre-drilling is recommended for hand nailing seasoned timber, although machine nailing with shear-point nails works well. White cypress readily accepts most standard coatings, stains and polishes. Special techniques, such as surface roughening, are required for gluing.
In its area of natural occurrence, white cypress is commonly found as sawn timber (usually unseasoned) in framework and other aspects of general building construction. More widely, it is used as flooring, cladding and fencing material. Decorative uses of white cypress include quality indoor and outdoor furniture, turnery, joinery, carving, parquetry and linings. Other common applications include oyster stakes and jetty piles in low-salinity environments, as well as beehives.
Applications
Hurford’s extensive range of Cypress products include:
- Screening & Decking
- Solid select grade flooring
- Pre-finished solid flooring
- Solid flooring with reverse VJ profile
- Chamfer & Shiplap
- Sawn Unseasoned F7
- Sawn Unseasoned Posts
Our Cypress harvested from the Barakula State Forest in Western Queensland is otherwise known as “Barakula Gold”, due to the superior quality of the raw material. Hurford’s Cypress Mill in Chinchilla is the only licensee in the Barakula State Forest, and as such Hurford is the sole supplier of the Barakula Gold range of Cypress.
Specification
GRADE F7
Visually stress graded, a suitable choice for use in decks and pergolas. Often preferred by builders for its strength, flex and cost qualities. Refer to appropriate span tables for load capacity and spanning ability, these will indicate what end sections can span over a set length, at a specific spacing.
Variations in Timber
Timber is a spectacular and versatile natural material. It yields a vast degree of variety in colour, texture and naturally occurring feature. This diversity can be apparent even between pieces selected from batches of the same species. Finishing can also effect variation in colour and may even highlight subsurface feature.
Hurford Wholesale recommends that care be taken when making a preference selection based on a single sample piece or a small area sample. In all cases, timber supplied will deviate in appearance between jobs and display samples. However, it is this deviation that makes all timber products absolutely unique.
NOTE: Please confirm availability before specifying or ordering.
