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KnowWell-nighWood JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. You must have JavaScript enabled in your browser to utilize the functionality of this website.Well-nighUs Visit our exhibit Blog Terms & Conditions Delivery Login / Account Phone enquiries 0800 587 1066 or 01908 571 233 Wicken Toys - outdoor play equipment, wooden climbing frames, outdoor climbing frames, Supertramp trampolines, Kettler go karts, outdoor trampolines, TP Toys, garden toys Search: Search Free Shipping On orders over £120 Trustpilot 0 Home > KnowWell-nighWood  × Login Form E-mail write * Password * Forgot Password ? Login or registration × Registration Profile Informations First Name * Last Name * Subscribe to Newsletter Login Details E-mail write * Password * Password confirmation * I winnow the Terms and Coditions Register or login First name is required! Last name is required! First name is not valid! Last name is not valid! This is not an email address! Email write is required! This email is once registered! Password is required! Enter a valid password! Please enter 6 or increasingly characters! Please enter 16 or less characters! Passwords are not same! Terms and Conditions are required! Email or Password is wrong! Know well-nigh Wood   Wooden Climbing Frames and Swing Sets: Know well-nigh Wood In recent years timber has wilt a popular nomination for outdoor toys.  For reasons of affordability and the environment, softwood rather than hardwood is used by the majority off wood playset manufacturers.  Over the last few years there has been a move towards wooden playsets stuff manufactured in China, these play sets use a timber tabbed China Fir, which is from the cedar family.  You can segregate between wooden climbing frames and wooden swing sets synthetic with round timbers or square cut timbers. When making your choice, you should be enlightened of the differences between them.   Wood: an organic material  Each piece of timber is unique, validness its own knots, cracks and variations in colour.  This is part of its beauty. However, as a natural organic material, it will transpiration over time, as it reacts to variations in atmospheric conditions.  Softwood will expand and contract with fluctuations in temperature and humidity.  In warm, sunny weather timber will shrink.  In wet weather it will expand.  As these physical changes do not take place uniformly throughout the wood, stresses are set up which result in cracks and splits opening up.  These cracks can be both wide and deep and are increasingly likely in round wood than square wood, although they will occur in both.   Round wood: characteristics and maintenance translating Round timbers from smaller trees contain heartwood surrounded by sapwood .  They are subject to significant cracking.  Whilst this can sometimes seem alarming, the wood playsets (wooden climbing frame and wooden swing sets) are dimensioned and designed to ensure that this has no effect on their structural integrity.  However as a result of this characteristic, you should be prepared to trammels your wooden climbing frame or wooden swing regularly so as to identify any splintering or lifting of the surface layers of the wood.  Any unauthentic areas can be rubbed lanugo using woody sandpaper to restore a smooth, unscratched surface.     Square wood: characteristics and maintenance advice  Wooden climbing frames and wooden swing sets made from square cut timbers will contain less heartwood than the round timbers.  This will reduce instances of cracking and splitting when compared with round wood but cracks and splits will still occur.  Again, you can be reassured that wood playsets are dimensioned and designed to ensure that this has no effect on their structural integrity.  Just as with round wood, your wooden climbing frame or wooden swing must be regularly checked.  Any areas unauthentic by splintering or lifting should be rubbed lanugo with woody sandpaper to restore a smooth surface suitable for wood playsets.   Square wood:  pine and china fir As once mentioned the majority of wooden climbing frames are manufactured using pine.  There are variegated grades of pine, the largest quality grades will have less knots, be less likely to split and the timber will be increasingly dense.  The higher the density, the stronger the timber and the increasingly it weighs giving a increasingly stable product.  Creative Playthings and Playtime Series are both manufactured using a grade 1 southern yellow pine, which is the highest grade.  Tp, Plum Products and All Out Play moreover use a pine although we do not know which grade. Climbing frames manufactured in China will use china fir some undeniability this a Cedar considering it is from the hard wood family.  This timber is not pressure treated but does have a water repellant stain unromantic at the point of manufacture.  The china fir is not as dumbo as pine so will weigh less than pine. Plum Products smaller playsets are made from china fir.   Sitemap HomeWell-nighUs Visit OurExhibitBlog Delivery Information Terms & Conditions Privacy Policy Know well-nigh Wood Hassel Free Returns Policy Products Shop by Brand Outdoor Climbing Frames Swings Slides Trampolines Wheeled Toys Playhouses Pools, Sand & Water Play Sports & Games Plum Wooden Kitchens Sledges & Toboggans Clearance ItemsWriteWicken Toys Limited Whittlebury Road Wicken Milton Keynes MK19 6BJ Additional Information Company Number: 04444906 VAT Number: 608 6536 27 Established Since 1991 Copyright 2018 Wicken Toys Ltd. Leave a Message My Cart You have no items in your shopping cart.