Vitex Timber Decking

The timber of some decking woods like kwila will leach a dark coloured stain when wet.

Vitex timber decking.

Decking add a beautiful social space to your house. Trees are felled and milled by local communities and villagers are where we at timspec source our vitex usually with portable mills. Vitex is a light to golden greyish brown with a smooth interwoven grain. When freshly cut the timber has a leathery odour and the timber is greasy to the touch.

Vitex ages to an attractive silver colour and has class 2 durability 25 years plus above ground. Vitex timber is very dense 700 800 kg for each square meter which means it is solid and improbable to gouge. All hardwood decking timber will weather to a silver grey if left to do so. Our solomon island vitex is machined here in nz to a 140 x 19mm smooth four sides s4s decking profile.

Texture is fine and slightly lustrous with an even grain. Vitex is sourced from low impact village based operations in the solomon islands. Vitex decking 19mm thick should be installed at maximum 450mm joist centres. 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 vitex cofassus is a solomon islands tropical hardwood used for decking in nz. 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. 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. Hermpac s decking range is extensive and covers ideal solutions for commercial or residential applications. 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.

It has been used extensively as exterior decking in new zealand for about 30 years. For 32mm thick decking this can be increased up to 600mm joist centres. It is and eco friendly option that is selectively logged and certified by the solomon island forestry council. 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.

The most popular decking timber we supply is vitex which is a natural hardwood imported from the solomon islands.