Timbersil Update (live from Greenbuild)

Ran into the good folks from Timbersil at their booth. (You may recall that we like Timbersil an awful lot.) Things seem to be going well for them, and it pleases me when an underdog with a breakthrough product emerges from established-industry opposition and hostility to brighter days. They were featured just today in a front-page article in the Santa Barbara Independent, which apparently caught the attention of the CBS evening news. They have 12 distributors providing national coverage these days, with high-profile projects on the ground that include the front walk of the place where they hold the Grammies, a harbor in New Jersey (with full immersion piers), the city of Chicago is using it... plus international projects in China, Japan, Australia, and Europe. It seems to be gaining a great foothold in California for its stunning fire resistance — Class A — and it turns out that accelerated weathering testing is showing that it actually gets more fireproof and stronger as it ages in the environment. (Kiln-dried wood is 40% stronger than treated wood; and Timbersil is 40% stronger than kiln-dried.) Check out the video of the fire test at the website of Timbersil's distributor in California.