The Pressure Treatment Process
We make many of our products using timbers that have been pressure treated. These include our climbing frames, sheds and garden offices as well as the floor bearers for our log cabins and summerhouses.
The process involves placing timber on a pallet, lathing it, before placing into a very strong sealed chamber at one of the pressure treatment plants in the factories abroad.
A pump then removes the air from the chamber and in doing so also sucks moisture and air from the timber. The treatment is then pumped into the chamber and it rapidly soaks deep into the timber to replace the moisture and air that has been sucked out. Pressure treatments such as this give wood the best protection from rot and infestation and we guarantee this for 10 years.
We choose to pressure treat the wood at the factories, rather than buy it from a supplier, for two reasons. It saves time, which means we can dispatch our products quicker. But it also allows us to cut timber to the correct size before treatment. This ensures the ends of the wood get treated too, so you can enjoy timber with all-round protection. This is very unusual, most companies buy in full lengths of timber that have been pressure treated elsewhere and they then cut this timber to the lengths they require, leaving the ends untreated!
Within recent years we have gone one step further than this even, as we now add an additional colourant to our pressure treatment so that instead of the products being the green colour that is more normally indicative of pressure treated timber, our products are a far more attractive brown colour which further enhances the look of our products and gives a nice contrast to our customers’ green gardens.
As we continue to grow both Dunster House and the overseas Companies, we will carry on investing in improving our manufacturing infrastructure to ensure the great value of our products; Chris owns everything required including a sawmill to maintain production quality throughout. This way, we can ensure each product that we supply gets produced with as much care and attention as the last one.
