2 for 1!

Already August - and only the second Blog of 2013...where has the year gone? Well for a start, we've been overseas - both with Certification work and consultancy on Joinery (that was in Grenada, of all places!) And there has been a steady flow of technical work in most of the areas we deal with: flooring, fencing, plywood; with quite an emphasis this year on windows - it's odd how certain things predominate in particular years... for example, a couple of years ago it was scaffold boards.

But the really BIG news of 2013 is the change of Company title and a "split" in our areas of work.

TFT Woodexperts is now a fully-fledged Limited Company in its own right - carrying on with technical site investigations and training work. And Technology For Timber Limited is now exclusively a Certification Body, issuing its Registered Diamond Mark against products which meets exacting Quality Standards and that have been audited by TFT's inspectors.

So from now on, whatever your particular needs, remember:

WOOD TECHNICAL PROBLEMS & TRAINING COURSES

contact "TFT Woodexperts Limited" - telephone +44 (0)1765 601010


TIMBER PRODUCT CERTIFICATION

contact "Technology For Timber Limited" - telephone +44 (0)1765 601551

We look forward to working with you in the years to come.

Jim Coulson, Director

February Already! Whatever happened to a quiet January?

I noticed that I hadn't managed to do a Blog since just before Christmas...it's not that I haven't anything to write about - just that I haven't had time!

The New Year started off with a bang: three consultancy jobs in as many days: and all of them concerning plywood - just as I was saying at the end of 2012: it's been the "Year of the Plywood" and that is still going on.  Most of it has concerned flooring: although one case was about so-called "Marine Plywood" which had been used for a shopfitting project externally; and it fell apart, through not being what it claimed to be.

Flooring has also featured in other ways: I have had the third in a series of articles published in the Contract Flooring Journal; and I have just finished an inspection on a badly-laid parquet floor. To say that monkeys could have done a better job is putting it mildly!

February has progressed well so far: the weather notwithstanding; and snow has not stopped our consultants from TFT Woodexperts from investigating many timber problems, in places as far afield as Hampshire, Kent, Hull, Hawick (in the Scottish Borders) and Wensleydale.  And we're off to Estonia in just over a week....

Keep the problems coming - and we'll get you the answers!

Jim Coulson
Director, TFT Woodexperts