TimberSIL Wood Shutters
$13.50 per square foot!
Custom Wooden Exterior Shutters
40-Year Rot Warranty
“Go Green” – Environmentally Friendly
1-3/8″ solid paint grade TimberSIL fixed louvered shutters, cope and dowel construction, two-part tropical hardwood epoxy all joints, fully mortised 3/8″ X 1-1/4″ louvers into 3″ stiles, rails to be 4″ to 6″, no hardware, no finishing, no installation.
TimberSIL Benefits |
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- Fire Safety – Class A Fire Retardant
- Home Protection – Will not Rot or Decay
- No Damage from Bugs, Termites, Ants or other Insect
- Environmental Wood Product for Green Building
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TimberSIL Information and Data |
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TimberSIL Awards |
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Popular Science
Grand Award 2005 – Home Tech Category
“Best of What’s New” – a round-up of what they consider the year’s most innovative products.
“Grand Winner under the “Home Tech” category is a wood treatment system called TimberSIL. TimberSIL is a non-toxic, non-corrosive, fire retardant, arsenic free wood treatment that is also free of heavy metals.” |
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Environmental Building News
2004 GreenSpec® Product – Top 10
“Perhaps the most innovative product recognized among BuildingGreen’s Top-10 of 2004 is a brand new pressure-treated wood product that relies on a unique mineralization process within the wood rather than toxins to protect it from insects and decay. And it does this without making the wood more corrosive. “If this product lives up to its manufacturer’s claims, it could quickly take over the market,” according to Wilson. “ |
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Metropolitan Home Magazine
2005 Design – #41
Honors 100 of the most noteworthy personalities, places and extraordinary objects in the world of innovative design. |
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TimberSIL in the News |
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This Old House Magazine – Sep 2005
Non-toxic, Affordable Pressure-Treated Lumber
by: Mark Powers
“Leave it to a chemist specializing in immune deficiency disorders to devise a pressure-treated wood that’s rot-proof, bug-proof, and so clean you could eat off of it. Its maker says it’s even safe enough to put in your mouth.
But we’re not sure why you’d want to do that. “ |
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Popular Science – Nov 2005
“Pressure-treated lumber without the poison”
“TimberSIL employs sodium silicate, a mixture of sand and soda ash used since the 1800s in detergents and as an egg preservative. Lumber soaks in it under pressure, then bakes until an insoluble matrix of amorphous glass hardens throughout the wood. No amount of rain or wear will remove it – Bugs can look, but they can’t touch.”
Timersil wood in the news |
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Enviromental Building News – Oct 2004
“TimberSIL Nontoxic Pressure-Treated Wood”
“Virtually all of the chemicals used in pressure-treated wood – CCA (chromated copper arsenate), ACQ (ammonium copper quaternary), copper azole, and even borates – are formulated to do one thing: kill organisms that decay or eat wood. It stands to reason that chemicals selected for their toxicity might also affect humans and ecosystems. Most uses of CCA have been phased out due to toxicity concerns…” |
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Environmental Science & Tech – May 2006
“Toxin-free treated wood” by: Mary Kathleen Flynn |
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Metropolitan Home Magazine – 2005 Design – #41
Honors 100 of the most noteworthy personalities, places and extraordinary objects in the world of innovative design. |
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CUSTOM HOME Magazine – Jan 2008
Timber Treatment Technologies
By Victoria Markovitz
Non-toxic, non-corrosive TimberSil uses the fusion of glass to wood, instead of more hazardous treatments, to resist mold, moisture, termites, rot, and decay. The glass also increases wood’s strength and fire resistance. It comes ready for paint or stain. |
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These shutters will indeed last a long time with the kind of treatment used to protect the wood from all types of insects and bugs that like to feast on timber.
Can these shutters be found at pretty much any hardware store? If so, are the easy to install yourself?