High Quality Wood Lattice Provides Easy Outdoor Elegance

(HIT) - One of the easiest ways to add a touch of elegance, a note of class, or a decorative feeling to a yard or outdoor living area is to integrate lattice in your landscape. With its airy classic look, lattice provides an ideal backdrop for foilage and flowers, whether you’re entertaining or just relaxing with the family. And lattice is very adaptable. Painted in the traditional white or in soft colors, lattice lends a formal atmosphere to a traditional garden or terrace. Left unpainted to weather to a silver gray, or stained in light transparent tones, lattice fits the mood of more casual or rustic settings. Given assertive shapes and bold, decorative colors, lattice brings sharp geometric accents to contemporary decks and patios.

But lattice isn’t merely a decorative material. For all its lightness and elegance, hiqh quality lattice is both strong and practical. It provides one of the most effective screens against both wind and harsh sunlight. It offers a highly effective measure of privacy while avoiding the un-neighborly barrier of a solid fence or wall. And lattice provides attractive support for flowering vines, climbing roses and floral boxes and baskets.

Machine-made wood and composite lattice is available at building material dealers and home centers in every part of the country. Synthetic products can work well in remote areas of the landscape where lattice panels are viewed at a distance, but for projects closer to the home, many homeowners prefer the look of real wood. Unfortunately, many have been frustrated when trying to buy wood lattice because the bargain lattice products often stocked and advertised are made from low-grade wood with open knots and splits, and are poorly fastened and flimsy.

A good-looking wood lattice project demands high quality lattice, built from quality lumber with no structural defects, cut into clean, uniform lath, carefully and accurately assembled. High quality lattice is precisely fastened at every intersection and the entire assembly reinforced with double fastenings around the perimeter and adhesive throughout the panel area.

Building such high quality lattice would be a forbidding task for most homeowners. And there are very few manufacturers of lattice who devote much time or attention to high-quality wood lattice. One exception is LWO, an Oregon company which manufactures high quality wood lattice in western red cedar, redwood, pine and treated softwood, in a variety of sizes, thickness and styles. Sold in most regions of the country, Woodway brand wood lattice from LWO is made from carefully graded lumber to exacting production standards and is the choice of better builders and contractors everywhere.

Woodway lattice is made for those places in the home, garden or outdoor living area where a high quality wood appearance is important and durability a concern. High quality wood lattice from Woodway is available in two grades: the highest grade uses clear, almost unblemished wood; the other uses a mixture of clear lath with other that have small, tight knots and other minor imperfections.

Each sheet of Woodway lattice is assembled on precision equipment, with weather-resistant glues applied in strips down the length and a heavy rust-resisting staple at each intersection, driven diagonally for maximum holding power. The lath joints around all sides of the lattice sheet are double-stapled to minimize possibility of damage in handling. The completed sheet of Woodway wood lattice is surprisingly rigid and can be cut anywhere without danger of lath breakage or separation. Each Woodway lattice panel is labeled as a mark of quality, and is better built than even that made by most skilled carpenters.

The manufacturers of this high quality wood lattice, the LWO Corporation of Portland, Oregon, offer their top grades in both diagonal and square patterns, in both privacy (1-3/4 in.) or open (2-5/8 in.) spacing, and in two thicknesses.

For dressing up the edges of the wood lattice panels, or helping to connect them or install them in framed assemblies, Woodway labeled cap and divider mouldings, in several dimensions, are generally available where the lattice is sold. Woodway lattice cap and divider mouldings are precision machined from the same high grade of woods, to assure a truly fine finished project.

High quality Woodway products are widely stocked by better building materials dealers nationwide. If you’re planning to add the classic elegance of wood lattice screening, gazebos, deck railings, or sunshelters to your home, look for the Woodway label for assurance that your completed job will meet the high standards that you set for your home. For more information about Woodway brand lattice and tips on how to select lattice and integrate it in your own projects, visit the Woodway website at www.woodwayproducts.com.

Courtesy: Home Improvement News and Information Center