Conservatories are extra add-ons to homes. This addition gives the whole house a graceful appeal. During the past, conservatories were constructed for growing plants. Due to their value additions such as needing very low maintenance, providing extra space, they are an alternative to buy a new house and beautiful appeal, made them to use for different requirements.
Conservatories can be customized bases on personal choice to beautify old or new homes. Wood conservatories bring homes a very beautiful appeal, elegant look and it can complement easily with the existing homes. This article tells you about the types of wood conservatories.
Many home-owners who build conservatories with aluminium or UPVC will feel discomfort having them because of their disadvantages. Home-owners should get conservatories built with a few basic designs and styles, problem of tear and worn out when there is a huge variation in climatic conditions – humidity, for example, will not allow glass to accommodate much easier than wood does, many companies gone out of business for providing damaged UPVC window, guarantee last for less than ten years and many more.
Use of wood for making conservatories are free from above disadvantage. Based on the type of wood sources conservatories are classified as follows.
Hardwood conservatory
Use of hardwood for making conservatories dates back to eighteenth century. Initially, hardwood conservatories were used to store harvested produce and growing plants. As they were adding extra space to home and beautiful appeal they were made transformed for required needs.
Hardwood to be used is obtained from trees like beech, elm, teak, obeche, mahogany, meranti, iroko, idigbo and utile. These plants’ wood source makes conservatories durable since, they have natural resins makes them resistance to weathering.
Oak conservatory
Oak (Quercus robur) is native to parts of Africa and Europe and is a popular wood material for conservatories from many centuries. Oak conservatories have beautiful color patterns that give a pleasant outdoor feel, in the interior of the conservatory.
For wood, many other plants and forests were cut down in different parts of world. But in Europe, oak tree thrives well in that climatic conditions and this makes to replace younger trees for future construction materials thereby preserving environment.
Timber conservatory
It is an inexpensive source of constructing material for conservatory and the source for timber conservatory is softwood. Softwood does not mean the timber is too soft to break. Softwood differs from hardwood in terms of density and hardness. Timber is obtained from evergreen trees (pine) and accounts 80% of world timber production.
Quality and durability of softwood are low due to lack of natural resins, which makes timber to last only for few years. Durability of softwood can be improved by painting resins or oils and this stresses the need of regular maintenance. The most used timber for constructing conservatories is pine.
The advantages of wood lies in its flexibility to customize the design as per the customer’s needs. Wood combines with any aesthetically appealing designs from classic to modern to blend with older or modern homes. Since wood is natural, production wastage and disposal of hardwood is environmentally friendly unlike plastic UPVC and aluminum. It gives the pleasure enjoyed outdoor in the interior. This makes best for converting conservatories to recreation room. Double glazed wood are five times more thermal efficient, which significantly reduces the amount power needed to heat the room.
Now, you know even though wooden conservatories are a little costlier than UPVC plastics and aluminum ones, they are good at imparting timeless quality, luxury to your homes and save money from heating bills. People think buying hardwood for constructing conservatories is likely to deplete forests. But most hardwood comes from forest plantation undertaken to produce quality timber for conservatories and hence no need to worry about environment.