Vitex Timber Decking

For 32mm thick decking this can be increased up to 600mm joist centres.

Vitex timber decking.

Residential decking with an attractive colour of pale yellowish to creamy grey along with some dark chocolate brown boards vitex popularity for residential decking in new zealand has exploded over the past few years. All hardwood decking timber will weather to a silver grey if left to do so. Hermpac s decking range is extensive and covers ideal solutions for commercial or residential applications. It has a durability rating of 2 making it quite durable with an outdoor life of 20 40 years.

It is and eco friendly option that is selectively logged and certified by the solomon island forestry council. Vitex vitex cofassus is a solomon islands tropical hardwood used for decking in nz. It has been used extensively as exterior decking in new zealand for about 30 years. The timber of some decking woods like kwila will leach a dark coloured stain when wet.

Vitex is a durable hardwood with a pale yellowish to creamy grey appearance. Trees are felled and milled by local communities and villagers are where we at timspec source our vitex usually with portable mills. Given that radiata pine joists are softwood and vitex is a strong hardwood the joists should be clean and sound and the screws should penetrate at least 40mm into the joists to achieve good holding. When freshly cut the timber has a leathery odour and the timber is greasy to the touch.

Vitex is sourced from low impact village based operations in the solomon islands. Decking add a beautiful social space to your house. Our decking hardwoods range in colour from pale cream vitex and yellow cedar honey brown to medium brown garapa and tonka through to dark red brown massa jarrah and kwila. Whether treading the boards of durable greenheart or purpleheart or admiring the silvered colour of a stable vitex deck around the residential home be they a slick narrow profile watershed or random width we ve got decking.

Vitex is a high density timber and has value in uses such as heavy construction wharf and bridge decking flooring boat building sleepers and joinery. Vitex ages to an attractive silver colour and has class 2 durability 25 years plus above ground. The most popular decking timber we supply is vitex which is a natural hardwood imported from the solomon islands. Vitex decking 19mm thick should be installed at maximum 450mm joist centres.

Vitex timber is very dense 700 800 kg for each square meter which means it is solid and improbable to gouge. Vitex is a light to golden greyish brown with a smooth interwoven grain. Vitex hardwood decking vitex is a creamy grey to light greenish coloured durable timber from the solomon islands that bleeds less than kwila. Vitex comes in conveniently shorter lengths and is very easy to saw.

Vitex decking has several advantages.