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