quality

Timber Topics August 2025 | Timber Use Classes
by Jennie Ward|29 July 25|Build, Supply
Do you know your Use Classes? The way treated timber must be described in merchants and on site has changed. It’s up to you to understand what Use Class the treated timber products you stock have been treated to, and where it is safe for them to be used. TDUK...
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Timber Topics July 2025 | Understanding external timber cladding
by Jennie Ward|27 June 25|Build, Supply
To support best practice across the industry, TDUK – working in collaboration with the Timber Decking & Cladding Association (TDCA) – has created the Timber Cladding Handbook, a valuable resource available at www.timberdevelopment.uk.
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Timber Topics June 2025 | Why timber supplies are changing
by Jennie Ward|30 May 25|Build, Supply
A shift is underway that’s seeing Pine (European Redwood) move to take a larger section of the construction timber market due to environmental challenges and market pressures.
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Timber Topics May 2025 | Give flooring sales a good foundation
by Jennie Ward|01 May 25|Build, Supply
Hardwood flooring is a popular upgrade among homeowners looking to enhance both the look and value of their property.
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Timber Topics April 2025 | Understand your decking products
by Jennie Ward|01 April 25|Build, Supply
The trend for outdoor living and making the most of our outside spaces shows no sign of slowing down. For builders’ and timber merchants, this translates into big business, with decking and garden landscaping products becoming an increasingly significant percentage of summer sales. That’s why, with Easter fast approaching, now...
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Timber Topics March 2025 | Check your batten stock meets the standard
by Jennie Ward|07 March 25|Build, Supply
TDUK is offering advice on how to ensure the timber battens you stock, sell and use are fit for purpose, after warnings from The National Federation of Roofing Contractors that sub-standard battens are circulating in the UK. These are ‘marked, coloured and sold as being BS 5534 compliant’, despite being...
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Guard against substandard battens with TDUK Trade Note advice
by Jennie Ward|21 February 25|Build, Supply
TDUK is offering advice to members and the wider industry on how to ensure the timber battens they stock, sell and use are fit for purpose, following warnings from The National Federation of Roofing Contractors (NFRC) that counterfeit battens are available on the UK market. The NFRC is once again...
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Why accreditation is key to sales growth
by Jennie Ward|20 January 25|Supply
Supplying preservative-treated wood is a highly competitive business, where sales often come at the expense of quality. The Wood Protection Association explains how third-party quality schemes can help create demand. Market research shows that inconsistent treated wood quality and end-user guidance are made worse by low buyer awareness around verifying...
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Specialising in graded roofing batten
by Jennie Ward|15 April 24|Build, Supply
Timber Development UK meets Shaun Revill of SR Timber, a timber supplier focused on promoting BS5534-graded quality roofing battens to the UK market. Shaun Revill is the SR in SR Timber. He co-founded the business in 2005, and is well-known in the trade as a specialist in timber roofing batten....
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Are your treatment plants and those of your suppliers independently audited?
by Jennie Ward|12 October 23|Corporate, Supply
TDUK is very pleased to announce that the final stages of the preservative treatment action plan are being implemented over the next few months. At the National Softwood Division meeting in early September, committee members received confirmation from the Governing Board that the final timetable for members to implement the...
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