Wooden House Signs -
Durable Chestnut

Solid Chestnut House Signs

The timber for these wooden house signs is all grown in the South West and sourced from a local timber yard.

Chestnut is a sustainable timber often grown in coppiced woodlands.

Sweet chestnut is traditionally known as poor mans oak! However we don't look at it this way - more of an interesting alternative to oak. It certainly does look very similar to oak with a fairly dense grain.

It also has a high tannin content that makes it very durable. Chestnut may not be as structurally strong as oak but for wooden house signs that does not matter in the slightest.

It can be left untreated and in most circumstances will weather down to a silver grey colour.

Alternatively we can slow the weathering with one of our wood treatments.