Larch cladding

[dickm]

Daughter and her husband are planning to have an extension built, and want sawn larch vertical cladding like our house. Being a perfectionist, S-i-L would like to get slow grown stuff if possible, which to me says sourcing from the Baltic. Anyone know of a good source north of the Central Belt? It'll need some 4-500 square feet, so a reasonable order.
We have Rembrand plus all the usual multiples locally and a few specialist sawmills (e.g. James Jones and Tarryblake) but these only have native larch.

 

[RobinBHM]

Siberian larch I would consider the best, very hard and slow grown. Density about 550kg/m3

Available from russwood, silva timber, vincent timber, brooks bros, international timber and others

Ive bought 32mm x 150mm sawn boards from brooks bros, about £750 / cubic metre plus vat.

 

[Trigs]

I had a quote from russwood but it was pricey though I it does look good quality, in the end I used the saw mill in Longside. I went for 16mm X 150mm overlap. Looks good and stood up well to the recent weather

 

[dickm]

Wondered about Longside as have bought from them in the past. When we had our extension, think the cladding was jusr Travis Perkins and the grain is much more open than the Scandinavian stuff supplied with the original kit from Sweden. Hence S-i-L wondering about similar. How tight was the grain on your cladding?
In the end, it will probably come down to price and some estimate of environmental cost (that's his job!)

Might want to get him to have a look a your's before he decides - are you anywhere near Tarves?

 

[Trigs]

Peterhead, your welcome to swing by for a look, to be honest I didn't look at the grain tightness just at the end grain to work out any potential cupping.