Vitex Timber Decking

Vitex decking 19mm thick should be installed at maximum 450mm joist centres.

Vitex timber decking.

Vitex ages to an attractive silver colour and has class 2 durability 25 years plus above ground. It has a durability rating of 2 making it quite durable with an outdoor life of 20 40 years. For 32mm thick decking this can be increased up to 600mm joist centres. 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 decking has several advantages. 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. Vitex vitex cofassus is a solomon islands tropical hardwood used for decking in nz. Our solomon island vitex is machined here in nz to a 140 x 19mm smooth four sides s4s decking profile.

Decking add a beautiful social space to your house. Vitex is a durable hardwood with a pale yellowish to creamy grey appearance. All hardwood decking timber will weather to a silver grey if left to do so. It has been used extensively as exterior decking in new zealand for about 30 years.

Vitex is sourced from low impact village based operations in the solomon islands. The timber of some decking woods like kwila will leach a dark coloured stain when wet. Texture is fine and slightly lustrous with an even grain. 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.

Vitex is a light to golden greyish brown with a smooth interwoven grain. 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. Attractive light coloured timber which will quickly age to a driftwood grey if left to weather. Vitex timber is very dense 700 800 kg for each square meter which means it is solid and improbable to gouge.

Vitex comes in conveniently shorter lengths and is very easy to saw. 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. The most popular decking timber we supply is vitex which is a natural hardwood imported from the solomon islands. When freshly cut the timber has a leathery odour and the timber is greasy to the touch.

Vitex hardwood decking vitex is a creamy grey to light greenish coloured durable timber from the solomon islands that bleeds less than kwila.