{"id":3559,"date":"2023-02-25T23:36:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T07:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marin-wood.com\/north-bay\/?page_id=3559"},"modified":"2023-02-25T23:36:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T07:36:52","slug":"old-growth-vs-new-growth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/marin-wood.com\/north-bay\/wood-facts\/old-growth-vs-new-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Growth vs New Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A very common misconception is<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that it is not necessary to preserve cedar shingles. This is a myth that has some historical truth to it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Up until about 60 or so years ago, cedar shingles were made from old growth trees, two to three hundred years old.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lignans in the wood, the glue that holds the cellulose materials together, developed over hundreds of years<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was much stronger than anything that you will find today. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Old growth wood has better stability, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">durability,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and longevity<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These trees in vast virgin forests grew slowly due to limited light and competition from the other trees.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Because of this slow growth rate, the growth rings on the trees were packed very tightly together. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> began seriously depleting these virgin forests during the industrial revolution, and\u00a0by the 1940s, most of them were gone. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For several decades now there has not been very much old growth wood<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enter second-growth and new-growth wood, grown on tree farms. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trees grow in open areas with little to no competition for sun, which causes them to grow very quickly so they can be harvested in 10-20 years as opposed to old-growth wood, from trees as old as 200-300 years before being harvested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is why houses in San Francisco, built over a hundred years ago, can still be in such fine condition, while more recent homes need to protect the wood to keep it from deteriorating. Without preservation, our shingles dehydrate and begin to cup, curl, and disintegrate. Unprotected shingles with a south and west exposure will only last 20 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The product we use, TWP 200 series (AKA Radcon), is a penetrating paraffinic oil that rehydrates and beautifies the wood with transoxide pigments<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have further questions or would like to discuss your home, please feel free to call me, Paul Burrous, on my cell phone 415-717-3721.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3416,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3559","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - 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