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Silvertop Ash:Beautiful & Fire-Resistant Timber Flooring
.jpg) If you are considering silvertop ash as your timber flooring, you need to know about the tree so that you know the kind of maintenance and usage it require. Your timber merchant will easily supply you with the information you need so that you can save yourself the labor of research.
The Silvertop Ash or Eucalyptus sieberi (siebarana) is another Australian timber, which is also known for its trading name of Coast Ash most likely because it can be found along the coastal areas of central and southern New South Wales. It is medium sized but can also be a tall hardwood species. It can also be found in inland tablelands of NSW, eastern Victoria and north-eastern region of Tasmania. Generally, the Silvertop Ash grows in old growth forest but they are now being re-planted o re-growth timber in the forests of Gippsland in Victoria.
It can be easily identified because its entire trunk is covered by a thick, furrowed, and coarse bark, which wears a dark brown to black color with older trees. It also has a very distinct terminal branchlets of red or livered in color. Its heartwood is of a pale brown color and even a nice pinkish hue, while its sapwood cannot be easily distinguished. You will notice that its grain often interlocks with growth rings that are clear but not very pronounced. Its texture is categorized as medium with markings of pinhole borers, gum veins and streaks resembling those of a pencil.
The heartwood of this species is moderately durable with a class 3 grading. It is slow to dry so not very applicable to outdoor applications unless it is sufficiently sheltered from the elements. It is often used as flooring and even as structural frames because this particular tree species is not difficult to manage. It yields satisfactorily in steam bending.
It is good as structural support and flooring because it is quite hard and its sapwood is not very susceptible to lyctid borer attack but its heartwood is not altogether resistant termite so treatment is very much required. Moreover, the Silvertop Ash has been found to be one of seven hardwood timber species that have undergone a series of tests and were found to meat the fire-resistant requirements as stipulated in AS 3959. However, this only applies to trees with thickness of eighteen millimeters and more.
With a Silvertop Ash timber for your floors, you will surely get very attractive and durable floors, which are also fire-resistant, ideal for places with frequent bushfires.
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