Glen Oak Produces Volumes of 18'-Long Skirt Boards

Montello, Wisconsin • July 12, 2005: Glen Oak Lumber & Milling now produces volumes of 18'-long veneered boards in oak, maple and cherry. The extra-long 1" x 12" boards are ideal for skirt boards or stair stringers, false ceiling beams, or any application where installation of long, uniform boards without a splice is desired.

Development of these 18'-long Engineered Solutions was driven by inquiries from Glen Oak customers whose builders are designing and constructing two-story homes with higher ceilings and additional stairs. Glen Oak changed three machining centers in its Wisconsin Mill#1 in order to produce the 18'-long boards to meet builders' needs. Veneered boards in 16'-lengths are also still produced at the hardwood lumber & millwork manufacturer's Montello, Wis. facilities.

The core species of each extra-long board matches its veneer. These boards' finger-jointed, edge-glued cores are superior to natural lumber-they won't cup, bow or twist. Unique to Glen Oak's veneered boards is the fact that a finger-joint veneer is used on both faces. This high-quality two-face finger-joint veneer results in boards with two good sides that are very uniform in color-piece after piece.

"Buying veneered boards is the only way to get quantities of long boards, especially in maple or cherry," observes Glen Oak Salesman Dick Thompson. "Natural 16'-boards are hard to come by and natural 18'-boards are impossible. I have a customer who buys half-a truckload of our oak veneered boards at the time," says Thompson, "and, with Glen Oak, mixed truckloads are always an option."

Glen Oak's 1" x 12" 18'-long veneered boards are packaged in unit quantities of 24 pieces; 1" x 10" board units contain 25 pieces. Price advantages are realized when buying three or more units at a time and the buyer may indicate a different species for each unit in the order.

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