How to Keep Cedar Lumber Colorful and Protected
To All Our Valued Customers, Over the past few years, the Covid 19 Pandemic has forced us to adapt and change the way we do things on a day-to-day basis. Florida Lumber is no exception. To make sure that we remain strong and competitive in the market for the years to come, Florida Lumber has had to adjust and change our vision for the future. In the last 2 years, we have stopped selling Sheetrock and drywall products, roofing felt and roofing materials, and have even closed on Saturdays.
Over the last few months, we have been transitioning our way out of the door supply business so on August 31, 2022, our door shop will stop assembling doors. We will continue liquidating our doors from inventory until we are out of material.
Some customers have asked if we are closing or even moving locations. To set the story straight, we are not closing or selling the business and we are not moving. These changes are all part of our new vision and path to continue serving South Florida and increasing our footprint in the construction supply industry.
Our focus is going to be on Lumber, Construction Materials, Rebar Fabrication and Rebar Accessories. As we have liquidated some of the items that we don’t sell anymore we have created more space to buy a larger volume of our core items and pass on the savings to our customers.
In the next year you will start seeing changes that will help improve our ability to serve you, our customers. We appreciate your business and your patience as Florida Lumber’s new vision becomes reality.
A Todos Nuestros Valiosos Clientes En los ultimos anos, la pandemia de el Virus (Covid 19) nos ha forzado a adaptarnos y cambiar la forma de hacer cosas en el dia a dia. Florida Lumber no ha sido una excepcion.
Para asegurarnos de mantenernos fuertes y competitivos en el mercado en los anos venideros, Florida Lumber ha tenido que ajustar y cambiar nuestra vision para el futuro. En los dos ultimos anos hemos dejado de vender los productos de yeso (sheetrock), paneles de yeso (drywall), tela asfaltica (roofing felt), materiales de techo y cerramos los Sabados. En los ultimos meses, hemos estado en transicion para salir del negocio de suministro de puertas, en Agosto 31, del 2022 nuestra tienda de puertas dejara de construir y/o cortar puertas. Vamos a continuar liquidando nuestro inventario de puertas haste que terminemos todo el material. Algunos de nuestros clientes han preguntado si estamos cerrando o si nos estamos moviendo a otra localidad. La verdad es que no estamos cerrando, no estamos vendiendo y no estamos cambiando de localidad. Estos cambios son todos parte de nuestra nueva vision y camino a continuar sirviendo al estado sur de la Florida y incrementar nuestras huellas en la industria de suministros de construccion.
paneles de yeso (drywall), tela asfaltica (roofing felt), materiales de techo y cerramos los Sabados.
En los ultimos meses, hemos estado en transicion para salir del negocio de suministro de puertas, en Agosto 31, del 2022 nuestra tienda de puertas dejara de construir y/o cortar puertas.
Vamos a continuar liquidando nuestro inventario de puertas haste que terminemos todo el material. Algunos de nuestros clientes han preguntado si estamos cerrando o si nos estamos moviendo a otra localidad.
La verdad es que no estamos cerrando, no estamos vendiendo y no estamos cambiando de localidad. Estos cambios son todos parte de nuestra nueva vision y camino a continuar sirviendo al estado sur de la Florida y incrementar nuestras huellas en la industria de suministros de construcción.
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Being a slow-growing species, red cedar used to be a knotty and narrow lumber. It is widely used in houses as a well-known exterior wood due to its natural red color. This strong and colorful lumber is mostly used to build trim, shingles, decking, house siding and fences. It is an easily found and inexpensive lumber that lasts for long.
Its only downside is that it changes its rich red shade to a monotonous grey quite quickly. You cannot get back the same radiance of red color once it turns grey. You can only tone the wood.
The color protection and maintenance of your cedar would ideally depend on selection, timing, and the right tips for maintenance.
4 Ways to Treat your Cedar for Best Protection
First, you need to ascertain which portion of the wood you would like to cover up before treating cedar. Cover-ups may include treating it with bleach oil to entirely covering the cedar using paint.
The middle portion of the cedar consists of compact color stains and light transparent stains that appear to be less solid and quite similar to an actual wood appeal. More solids will help your cedar last longer.
You must have your cedar treatment well-planned before installing it in your exterior. You will have nearly a 15-day time frame after which the wood’s color starts to fade. Here are few ways to treat your cedar when finishing its installation:
- Bleaching Oil: To get a gray and weathered appearance that is also protected, you need to put in some extra work for it to appear natural. You can use Cabot Bleaching Oil as part of a two-way procedure. In the first stage, this oil will tone and give the wood a light gray shade. In the second stage, after some time has lapsed, it will trigger the bleaching method and give you a weathered look quickly and uniformly.
- Solid Color Stains: If you want to give your cedar an artificial appearance, solid color stains are the best bet. Such color stains will give your wood a very even, opaque appearance. The best part is that solid color stains avoid most harmful ultraviolet rays, thus protecting your wood.
- Primer Paint: You can also give your cedar a great color of your choice if your only objective is to protect it. Paint your cedar exclusively with solid colors and do not use light shades, as light colors are a triggering factor in the faster deterioration of cedar.
- Semi-Transparent Stains: To give an appeal of true Cedar, you should opt for semi-transparent stains, as these will give appropriate protection to your cedar as well. These semi-transparent stains will not overshadow the cedar's wood grain. In this process, manual brushing of the cedar is the best method to utilize as opposed to spraying, as the latter may lead to blotching.
You can paint or get any shade you like for your cedar lumber. It is relatively challenging to get the exact wood color using paint. In the event you wish to give your cedar a wood appearance , select one of the above-listed options.