What is the best wood for exterior beams?

Wooden beams have many applications both at a structural and decorative level, with outdoor wooden beams standing out. For a long time, exterior timber structures have been a reference in design and construction, both for housing and public spaces.

In terms of performance, the best choice for building structures and roofs with timber beams is laminated ones, which offers much more dimensional stability and strength than solid timber beams. These laminated beams can be curved or form undulations thanks to the fact that they are made up of different sheets joined together, which allow the beam to be adjusted to the desired shape at the time of manufacture.

At Gabarró, we have spruce and pine laminated beams, the best known and most widely used beams in Europe. Glued laminated fir beams are straight beams of constant section in glued laminated spruce wood with structural criteria and highly resistant and decorative. This product is recommended for wooden beams for interior ceilings.

On the other hand, treated pine laminated beams are suitable for outdoor use as they are highly resistant, have high dimensional stability and can be used for structural applications.

Most of the applications of this material are mainly structural, although they are also aesthetically pleasing and many uses them as decorative beams. At the domestic level, pergolas are the great exponent of beams in an outdoor space, together with the structural function they give to balconies, terraces, sheds or even wooden houses. On a public level, they are mainly used for large outdoor structures such as roofs at convention centers and sports complexes, bridges, and parks.

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