Here at TFT Woodexperts, an incredible variety of topics find their way to us, for our consultants to give their Expert views on, in relation to wood and wood-based products. In the past few months alone, we've been asked to inspect and report on the following range of very different things to do with wood:
Laminate flooring in a restaurant; hoardings and signage used at a construction site; roofing battens imported from Estonia; a cracked butcher's block (made from Beech); decaying oak decking in a forest garden walkway; problems with plywood used for concrete formwork; keruing boards for lorry trailers; the quality of a consignment of Siberian Larch; and graded softwood components destined for a cooling tower in the Middle East. And that doesn't include the work we do on the ongoing Quality Schemes that we've set up in the UK, Latvia & Estonia.
It is perhaps surprising (though not to us at Woodexperts!) just how many different uses there are which wood gets put to: and of course, each of those hundreds of uses has the potential to go wrong at some point...which is why it pays to get the right advice FIRST - before you start doing the job!
Jim Coulson
Director, TFT Woodexperts
