Port Orford Cedar Siding

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Port orford cedar siding.

Our experienced sales staff is dedicated to helping you with all of your product needs from a single board to a full truck stock items or special orders call disdero for dependable quality products. For those that do not know port orford cedar is closely related to alaskan yellow cedar. This community consists of 365 forested acres that comprise two thirds of the walker creek watershed. These cedar species are recognized as the best selections for durability and aesthetics.

Port orford cedar poc is one of the white cedars in a group of false cypresses numbering three native species in the u s. Port orford cedar is a high quality hardwood that is both light weight and incredibly strong making it an ideal wood for all types of construction applications such as boat building clothes chests cabinetry aircraft plywood veneer stringed instruments arrow shafts coffins and much more. These lighter colored cedars do not have tanins like western red cedar but instead rely on their resinous character for protection from bugs rot and decay. And four additional species in japan and taiwan.

Give us a call and lets talk about your project. Click on any of the icons to go to a bigger more detailed picture. Orepac building products chooses western red cedar inland red cedar and port orford cedar for our products. The port orford cedar was first discovered in its small natural range along the california oregon coast in 1851.

The other three western cedars are alaskan yellow cedar incense cedar and port orford cedar. Applications for atlantic cedar include siding paneling boat planks fencing. Curry county is well known for port orford cedar which is a native species of the area. Structural timbers posts and beams any custom cut product to 24 square and up to 26 in length.

They are all yellow or white cedars and actually are variations of the cypress species of tree. It is protected under a conservation easement with the southern oregon land conservancy and is managed to the exacting standards of the forest stewarship council. It s one of the easiest cedars to identify due to the distinctive yellow tone of its sapwood and the hints of yellow in its browning heartwood. Super strong resistant to bugs rot and fungus and it smells awesome too.

Port orford cedar is found in a compact zone near the pacific coast from southwest oregon to northwest california. Board and batten siding. For technical information on port orford cedar see this page or the poc species page for more general info.