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Making a project using Australian timbers opens up a whole world of high quality options. Anyone who arrives on Australia’s shores is quickly confronted with timbers that are considerably harder than those that are used in other parts of the world. When we sent some timbers to Europe years ago we received phone calls asking about them because European manufacturers were finding that they needed to change the cutters in the machines that they were using three times as often as they had done before. The average Australian timber is over twice as hard as the average timber from the...

Three decades ago we built our reputation in sold timber flooring. Then in the late 90’s we experimented with engineered floors. Early results were mixed as engineered floors were not designed for Australian conditions and there were instances of delamination that created major headaches for some competitors. Then by a decade ago in 2010 we started to see much better floors emerging. Quality control has played a major role in this. At VCS Solid Timber Floors we now have over 300 flooring options and we have many floors in engineered options. Happily these are now available in grades as well...

In recent times people have been looking for timber floors to have character. Rather than the bland all one colour sort of flooring that we associate with the cheap plastic floors, people want to see the knots, the grain, the gun veins that make a timber floor real. 

One of the potential problems that can occur when using coatings outside in the Australian sun is that the coatings will go brittle and begin to peel away. The amount of work that is required to fix the surface when the coating is peeling off can be enormous. Why spend all that time and effort rectifying something that could have been avoided in the first place?  This is where the OSMO range of external Oils need to be considered. The coatings do not peel and they do not go dry and brittle in the manner referred to previously.  Some intricate external...

Trying to avoid those cracks that can appear in a floor as the timber expand and contract? OSMO is the answer. Learn why.