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John Fairweather Specialty Timber Solutions - Turning Trees into something special
Eucalyptus timbers especially
Yard: 162 Harleston road, Sefton, North Canterbury. Directions »
All correspondence and small deliveries to the office at 180 Cavendish road, Casebrook, Christchurch, 8051.
Phone 021 2110705 email: jrf@xtra.co.nz
...use New Zealand-grown hardwoods
We specialise in quality hardwood solid timber flooring. We take logs and mill them carefully to produce stress relieved timber, then dry and machine the timber into specialty products. This comprehensive process requires skill and specialised machinery.
Services:
Bring your log or logs to me and I will mill them into whatever size timber you want.
My Wood-Mizer LT70 can cut slabs up to 700mm wide. The mill can handle logs up to 6m long and 1m in diameter.
This service costs from $250 per hour.
Recent jobs include benchtops, railway sleepers cut for flooring, and sundry feature logs for joinery work.
Bring your timber to me and I will machine it into your required profile.
The Logosol planer moulder can produce a variety of machined timber.
I have some profile knives in stock and can have a knife for any profile prepared.
The log specifications are:
Small end diameter >40cm
Log length 3m
Average diameter 45cm but can take up to 1m
No branches, some small branch stubs acceptable.
Freshly felled/crosscut.
Main timber species:
Eucalyptus
Machined timber:
Tongue and groove flooring
Parquet flooring
Skirting boards and mouldings.
Laminated timber:
Benchtops
Stair treads
Tables
Milled timber:
Outdoor above-ground use
Outdoor in-ground use (Ironbark)
Timber for fine furniture
Decking
Yard rails
Bridges.
...use New Zealand-grown hardwoods
John Fairweather Specialty Timber Solutions produces hardwood timber products from eucalyptus trees grown in Canterbury.
John Fairweather Specialty Timber Solutions supplied the timber ceiling in the Wanaka Wedge house as seen on New Zealand Grand Designs in 2019. The house was built in rugged Central Otago and was designed to fit into the landscape by rising from the ground in a wedge shape. Owners Justine Cormack and Marc Taddei chose a design that is dramatic both externally and internally, one which provides interaction with the environment and provides comfort and grace from the interior. An important part of the interior of the house is the wooden ceiling which runs from the kitchen through the dining area to the lounge and entertainment area. The ceiling features slopes and curves to create drama as you move from one space to the other. The timber is Eucalyptus nitens and Eucalyptus fastigata, two species which have the same appearance, machined in tongue and groove but with a 5mm negative detail at the join rather than the usual V join. The ceiling then runs down the wall and covers some of the entertainment technology and the door to the main bedroom.
Please note that while Chris Moller said that the ceiling was expensive he was referring to the extra time needed to install our very competitively priced timber onto a ceiling which has multiple curves
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