Nature’s Finest: Western Red Cedar

Lindal Cedar Homes uses the finest Western red cedar to build your dream home. This material was chosen because: Western red cedar contains natural oils that act as preservatives to help the wood resist insect attack and decay.

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• Cedar is also a dimensionally stable wood that lies flat and stays straight even as it ages.
• Properly finished and maintained, Western red cedar ages gracefully and endures for many years.
• Under a microscope, a cross-section of Western red cedar reveals the secret of its exceptional insulating ability: nearly ten million air-filled cells in every cubic inch. Western red cedar's uniform cell structure gives it 12 times the insulating value of stone or concrete.
• This uniformity at a cellular level also makes Western red cedar easy to work with and stable against shrinking. All these qualities give your home a lifetime of low maintenance and lasting value.

From the forest in British Columbia to your building site, Lindal's strict quality control standards and grading systems begin where industry standards end. At our facility in Surrey, British Columbia, each piece of lumber is kiln-dried, cut and planed to achieve a radiant finish. It's an extra step that reduces and controls moisture content, reducing the chance for twisting and warping that often occurs with green or air-dried lumber used in most new construction.

Visit your dealer's model or design center to touch, smell and take in the full beauty of nature's finest Western red cedar building materials.