what kind of wood work is done in many offices?
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Woodwork common to offices includes cabinets, shelves, chair rail, and hand rail. Many of these items are produced by commercial woodworkers and installed by carpenters.
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hard wood and semen =)
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Electrical, Plumbing, framing, HVAC, Other (paint,roof,finnish work)
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This would depend on whether the wood used was commercially processed timber or natural material i.e. driftwood etc.\n\nIf you declare on the customs declaration what it is exactly and it's made from treated timber you should be OK
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Bamboo forms a very hard wood, especially when seasoned, and is light and exceptionally tough. This makes it useful for many things such as houses (in tropical climates), fences, bridges, toilets, walking sticks, canoes, furniture, chopsticks, food steamers, toys, construction scaffolding, hats, martial arts weaponry, abaci and various musical instruments such as the shakuhachi, palendag, jinghu, and angklung. It is also widely carved for decorative artwork. Modern companies are attempting to popularize bamboo flooring made of bamboo pieces steamed, flattened, glued together, finished, and cut. However, bamboo wood is easily infested by wood-boring insects unless treated with wood preservatives or kept very dry (see carving, right). It has also been used as a substitute for steel reinforcing rods in concrete construction.\n\nWhen bamboo is harvested for wood, care is needed to select mature stems that are several years old, as first-year stems, although full size, are not fully woody and are not strong.\n\nCulms may be cut and hollowed into vases or drinkware, tubes, or pipes for liquids.\n\nCulms can also serve as pipes. The Bamboo Organ of Las Pinas, Philippines is an example.\n\nBamboo canes are normally round in cross-section, but square canes can be produced by forcing the new young culms to grow through a tube of square cross-section and slightly smaller than the culm's natural diameter, thereby constricting the growth to the shape of the tube. Every few days the tube is removed and replaced higher up the fast-growing culm.\n\nThe fibre of bamboo has been used to make paper in China since early times. A high quality hand-made paper is still produced in small quantities. Coarse bamboo paper is still used to make spirit money in many Chinese communities.\n\nThe wood is used for knitting needles and the fibre can be used for yarn and clothing. Sharpened bamboo is also traditionally used to tattoo in Japan, Hawaii and elsewhere.\n\nA variety of bamboo was one of about two dozen plants carried by Polynesian voyagers to provide all their needs settling new islands; in the Hawaiian Islands, among many uses, 'Ohe (bamboo) carried water, made irrigation troughs for taro terraces, was used as a traditional knife for cutting the umbilical cord of a newborn, as a stamp for dyeing bark tapa cloth, and for four hula instruments - nose flute, rattle, stamping pipes and Jew's harp.\n\nSome skateboard deck manufacturers are beginning to use bamboo construction. It is both lighter and stronger than traditional materials and its cultivation is environmentally friendly.\n\nBamboo is also used caged culture of fish, with cages made of a wooden frame and bamboo lattices.
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This retired fella I know carved wood.  He had a group of other retirees that met once a week and just use small knives to carve beautiful sculptures out of wood.  They paint them, and when they are done, they look beautiful, like a ceramic figurine, but they are very neat because you can add your own personal creative touch.
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Wood.  Wood is an insulator.  The other materials conduct electricity.
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Trex.....the fake wood\n\nhttp://www.trex.com/
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There is some overlap, but lumber is a processed product, timber can be also, but can also refers to the wood before it's been processed:\n\ntimber - 1a) Trees or wooded land considered as a source of wood\n\nlumber - Timber sawed into boards, planks
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As per the CTI(Cooling Tower Institute) www.cti.org, - douglas fir is the main softwood used in part due to its strength. Some towers are made out of redwood and that is because of redwood's treatability(now most redwood is sapwood) and appearance.
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Every kind of work is hard work
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nice way to get your work done
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Wood is a good start.
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maple wood is used for the floors
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A wooden dowel is placed on a lathe where it is rotated and ground down to form.  Then it is sanded, finished and polished.
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Most of the ones I work with have a jillion toys all over their office and don't dress in business attire. Long hours, coming in late at night to do nightly builds, incomplete specs, these things might have something to do with that.
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Jade,\n\nI'll tackle the second part of your question, since the first part has already been addressed with several different choices. \n\nYou can also find out more right here on Y!Answers by doing a search for "Janka scale" because several questions have addressed wood hardness in various ways.\n\nNow for the "why don't they use it for building?"\n\nOpinion only, but I think the simple answer is cost. A secondary answer would be the difficulty of working with it.\n\nWe're talking about woods that are roughly three times harder than oak. Wood from trees that do not grow very large in girth. A 12" tree, quarter sawn, would at best produce only a few boards. Those boards would break or wear out the standard tools that a carpenter works with very quickly.\n\nAll woods are being used less in construction except for decorative elements. In the US, which still depends on on-site stick & nail construction more than Europe, wooden elements are being replaced with wood composites and other materials that replace the traditional beams, studs and flooring. Cost, availability (at a reasonable price), and the ability to be easily worked with.\n\nLook in new home construction. Basement -- wood composite I-beams. Living area -- drywall on steel studs, "hardwood" floors that are a composite wood base with a thin laminate and a coat of plastic over it.\n\nNow where they have "real" wood, it's featured! Mantles, moldings, trim, architectural elements -- and it raises the price of the house.\n\nWe're not short of trees. We're short of *old-growth* trees. Trees are farmed now, and the trees of choice are fast-growing softwoods. \n\nWhere there are hardwoods, the furniture makers and musical instrument makers are willing to bid more for them than the construction industry.\n\nHope that helps with the second part of your question.