Happy New Year!!! 2013

Hope the new year brings you and your family prosperity, health and happiness!

Getting Creative with Ipe'

Ipe' is a teak like product that is the perfect product for outdoor projects. It can be ordered in most dimensional lumber sizes. 1x6" decking is usually a stock item at most lumber companies. As a 50 year product it is important to overbuild the structure and use all stainless steel fasteners.
You can oil the product then let it grey naturally.

Composite Trex Deck

For this deck we removed the planter that was around the pool to add a new deck. This new deck added quite a bit more usable space around the pool. The other problem that the owners were having was the bark chips were finding their way into the pool. Fingers were pointed at the dog but the dog denies being involved.

Contemporary Redwood Deck Railing

This is a contemporary redwood railing on a redwood deck and trellis.

Redwood Deck

This is a new redwood deck that we build last month in Dana Point. The lumber is Con. Heart Redwood with a Cabot clear sealer.

Are We Depleting the Redwood Forests?

Redwood Forests

Lumber-producing redwood forests have proven to be well managed and sustainable. Harvested lands always are replanted and resources from water to wildlife habitat conserved and protected. Roughly 90 percent of managed redwood forestlands have been certified sustainable by the Forest Stewardship Council or Sustainable Forestry Initiative, and all redwood forests are subject to California's strict environmental regulations.

There are more than 1.7 million acres of redwood forests thriving in California about the same number of acres as we had before the Gold Rush, with about 400,000 acres held in public parks and reserves. Towering redwoods (redwood is the tallest tree in the world) and spectacular old-growth groves are typically found at the mouths of rivers and where centuries of periodic flooding deposited layers of nutrient-rich soils. Virtually all old-growth trees are protected from harvest, and forestry companies invest millions of dollars to enhance water quality throughout the redwood region.

Redwood lumber comes from privately owned, second- and third-generation forests that have raised sustainable forestry to new heights. With active management, forest-regeneration and continued conservation, there will be more redwoods in the near future than there are today.

Source: www.calredwood.org

New Years Eve Eagle Project

Marblehead Elementary School

Eagle Project:  Barrett Croft, a student, worked with the school to come up with a design and construction plan to fence in a gardening area that is set aside to be farmed by the individual classes.  This will give the students an opportunity to learn about green living, agriculture how to get their hands dirty and hopefully in the process develop a bit of a green thumb.  We were happy to help out with the project.  On the first day posts were set in concrete footings, the arbor was built and the entry slab was poured.  The next week they finished installing the fence rails and pickets.   

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