Timber Screening

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Premium Timber Screening Solutions for Outdoor Spaces

Hurford’s screening products offer the perfect balance of privacy, functionality and natural beauty, helping define and elevate outdoor spaces with warmth and character. Whether used to create intimate entertaining areas, provide shade and separation, or enhance architectural features, timber screening adds a timeless and versatile design element to any project.

Designed to complement a range of outdoor styles, our screening solutions allow you to maintain a connection to the outdoors while adding texture and visual appeal. For a cohesive design approach, consider using the same timber species throughout both interior and exterior spaces to create a seamless flow between indoors and out. With Hurford’s screening range, you can create refined outdoor environments that are both practical and beautifully considered.

Hurford’s screening solutions are incredibly versatile, offering both functional and aesthetic applications across a range of outdoor environments. From privacy screens and garden features to gates, fencing and architectural screening elements, timber screening can help define spaces while adding warmth and natural texture to outdoor designs.

Our range includes high-quality hardwoods such as Spotted Gum and Vitex, along with a selection of treated and naturally termite-resistant softwoods, providing options suited to a variety of project styles and performance requirements. Available in a wide range of sizes and species, Hurford’s screening products allow you to create durable, refined outdoor spaces with lasting visual appeal.

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Hurford’s Screening products combine natural timber beauty with practical outdoor performance, making them ideal for privacy screens, fencing, garden features, gates, and architectural applications.

Available in a wide range of Australian hardwood and imported timber species, the range offers flexibility for both residential and commercial projects. Designed to enhance outdoor spaces with warmth, texture, and visual appeal, Hurford’s Screening products provide a durable and timeless solution for modern exterior design.

For a cohesive indoor-outdoor aesthetic, matching timber species can also be used across decking, cladding, and interior applications.

Species:

Local

Blackbutt
Brushbox
Blue Gum
Cypress
Grey Box
Grey Ironbark
Grey Gum
Ironbark
Jarrah
Mixed Hardwood
QLD Spotted Gum
Red Ironbark
Spotted Gum
Silver Ash
Stringybark Yellow
Tallowwood
Turpentine

Imported

Kwila (Merbau)
Radiata
Vitex

Hardwood Screening Sizes:

40 x 19mm
40 x 30mm
40 x 40mm

Australia has the highest UV rating, causing any timber left uncoated to turn a weathered silvery grey. This is due to the UV rays slowly degrading the timbers surface and cellulose fibres in the timber, which in turn changes the natural colour. For minimal maintenance consider allowing your deck to weather naturally.

Greying only affects the surface of the timber, so if you decide a change in appearance is needed; then the timber can be rejuvenated and finished to your new desired effect.

To maintain the timbers natural colour or to transform the timbers appearance, an external timber coating needs to be applied and maintained in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations.

Timber movement – Timber is a hygroscopic product, which means that it will absorb or lose moisture depending on the environment it is placed in. When timber is placed in a high humidity (moist) environment it absorbs moisture and expands, oppositely when timber is placed in a low humidity (dry) environment it sheds moisture and shrinks.

Leaching – Leaching of tannins occur when timber is exposed to rain which may cause staining on surfaces in contact with the decking. Directing water runoff, preparing timber prior to installation and maintaining the finish will help reduce any potential leaching. The stain is cosmetic only and will not corrode or rot surfaces it comes in contact with.

Tip: Feast Watson WOOCLEAN helps to remove oils and tannins from new timber and rejuvenates grey, weathered timber.

Finishes – To preserve the natural look of the timber decking it will need to be finished. Applying a penetrating oil based finish will enhance and preserve the natural beauty of the timber, and help keep the timber nourished and hydrated. A finish helps protect from moisture, UV radiation and fungi, reducing timber movement, checking, bleaching, and mould. Unpigmented finishes including clean film finishes have limited life when exposed to UV-light, prone to trapping moisture peeling and greying faster. Transforming the timbers colour can be achieved by using a stain to finish.
Tip: The Feast Watson consumer page will help answer questions you have regarding differences between oils and stains.

Bush Fire Rating – In many parts of Australia, the construction of new buildings and additions to existing buildings will be assessed as being in a Bushfire Prone Area. The relevant Australian Standard AS 3959 provides for a range of Bushfire Attack Levels for proposed construction. A range of Australian native species including Blackbutt, Red Ironbark, Spotted Gum and Turpentine are classified as naturally bush fire resistant, making them ideal for bush fire prone areas.

STANDARD & BETTER
Combines the features of select & standard grade to provide a deck with slightly more character than a select grade timber.

FEATURE
Feature grade is, as the name suggests, high feature. Each board is a veritable sea of natural feature, containing large knots, gum veins, pinholes and even some holes that can be filled during the laying process. Again, the features will be greater in quantity and larger in size than standard grade.

Variations in Timber
Timber is a spectacular and versatile natural material. It yields a vast degree of variety in colour, texture and naturally occurring feature. This diversity can be apparent even between pieces selected from batches of the same species. Finishing can also effect variation in colour and may even highlight subsurface feature.

Hurford Wholesale recommends that care be taken when making a preference selection based on a single sample piece or a small area sample. In all cases, timber decking supplied will deviate in appearance between jobs and display samples. However, it is this deviation that makes every timber deck absolutely unique.

NOTE: Not all species are available in all sizes and grades. Please confirm availability before specifying or ordering.