ENGINEERED FLOORING

The Beauty Of Solid Timber Flooring Engineered For Your Lifestyle.

Silkwood Engineered Flooring is now available in a wide range of stylish colours and styles to suit your lifestyle, Silkwood combines the sophistication of a real timber with an ingenious construction, delivering a stable floor and making installation easy over many surfaces. And of course, the entire Silkwood range is made right here in Australia, using environmentally sustainable Australian hardwood, so you can take pride in your beautiful new floor.

Solid ground for choosing Silkwood

Silkwood Engineered Flooring offers the following range of features and benefits to make it your natural selection:

  • An extensive range of beautiful Australian hardwood species. Sourced from forests sustainably managed through a rigorous framework of both Commonwealth and State laws and regulations.
  • A tough, durable and extremely stable product using some of the worlds hardest timbers and a premium uv cured, scratch resistant acrylic coating system. The 4mm thick hardwood top layer can also be re-sanded, just like a traditional floor.
  • Pre-finished and easy to install, avoiding any mess, fumes or hassles. The floor can also be walked on within hours.
  • Crafted in longer lengths than any other Engineered Floor to showcase the beautiful lines and unique grain patterns of our natural Australian hardwoods.

CHOOSING TIMBER FLOORING IS SO SIMPLE

To help you create the perfect timber floors for your needs, we have put together a few tips for you to consider:

STYLE AND LOOK THAT BEST SUITS YOUR HOME

  • Life isn’t black and white, and neither are Silkwood floors. Take your pick from our 11 unique Australian species with colours ranging from rich reds to deep browns and lighter shades to suit every room and décor.
  • Silkwood comes in 3 width styles: 80mm, 133mm and 166mm styled to suit every room.
  • Silkwood is also available in two grades:
  • “Australiana” grade showcases the subtle feature of the native Australian hardwoods. Alternatively, the natural grade offers a rustic aged appearance, with a high level of natural timber characteristics e.g gum veins and insect trails.

BEAUTIFUL FLOORBOARDS DESERVE A PROFESSIONAL INSTALLATION

  • You are now happy with your chosen look, but how do you ensure you are still smiles once the installation is done and dusted? Here are a few key points to consider.
  • Installing Silkwood can be quick and simple, but we recommend you use a professional timber flooring installer.
  • There are two main types of installation for your Silkwood Engineered Floor, it can be stuck down directly to the subfloor for a more solid feel underfoot or “floated” over an underlay which also provides good sound insulation.
  • Also, make sure you budget for floor preparation, underlay, trims and wastage when cutting around doors.

Armour Flooring

Engineered Australian Hardwood Flooring

Armourfloor® by Big River Timbers
Australia’s most stable timber flooring

Four generations of expertise
The Pidcock family has been supplying quality timber products from the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales for more than 100 years. This inherited knowledge and experience forms the basis of the high-tech manufacturing process used to create engineered hardwood flooring of unsurpassed strength and beauty.

A lifetime guarantee of quality
Big River Timbers flooring is one of the few timber floors in the world backed by a lifetime guarantee of structural integrity in residential applications. To view a PDF document of our warranty follow this link. Warranty PDF document

Proven under tough Australian conditions
Tests confirm that Big River Timbers engineered flooring remains stable through a range of harsh conditions, making it ideal for almost any residential or commercial application, including regions with harsh climatic conditions, or for installation over heated slabs.

Manufactured from sustainable resources
It’s also comforting to know your flooring is manufactured from a renewable resource. All Big River Timbers engineered flooring is milled from managed regrowth and plantation forest hardwoods.

Armourfloor® UltraCote flooring
Armourfloor® UltraCote floorboards are sanded, sealed and coated in the factory with a high quality surface finish, ready for easy installation.

  • Fast installation, minimal disruption
  • Ready to walk on
  • 25 year surface warranty
  • Lifetime structural guarantee

Every board finished to perfection
Every Armourfloor® UltraCote floorboard is supplied with a professional lacquered finish, guaranteeing a perfect looking floor – instantly. No mess, no smell, no disruption – floors can be installed and walked on in the same day.

25 year surface warranty
Armourfloor® UltraCote flooring comes with a 25 year guarantee on the factory coating. The surface warranty only applies to factory finished boards.

Simple to install
Armourfloor® UltraCote flooring is so easy to install you can do it yourself. Installation instructions are included in every pack of floorboards. Armourfloor® UltraCote flooring can be installed on virtually any flat surface – over concrete, tiles, or even existing timber floors. For best results we recommend professional installation of your floor.

Choice of two board widths
Armourfloor® UltraCote flooring is available in a choice of two widths 138mm and 189mm standard packs are random lengths up to 2400mm.

Armourfloor® CustomCote flooring
Armourfloor® CustomCote flooring is supplied unfinished and is installed by expert tradesman. It is sanded and coated on site, giving you the opportunity to choose your own gloss level.

  • Finished to your requirements
  • Lifetime structural guarantee
  • Wide colour range
  • Native eucalypt hardwoods

Choose your own finish
Armourfloor® CustomCote flooring is installed with a raw timber finish, allowing you to select a high or low gloss lacquer to suit your requirements.

Easy to work with
The structural integrity of Big River Armourfloor permits its use in a wide range of applications and a variety of installation methods:

  • Tongue and groove floating floor over concrete or timber sub-floors
  • Glued directly to concrete sub-floors
  • Glued directly to underlay fixed to timber or concrete sub-floors
  • Glued directly to strip timber or structural timber sub-floors
  • Top-nailed to battens fixed to concrete or timber sub-floors
  • Top-nailed directly to joists

Choice of two board widths
Armourfloor® CustomCote flooring is available in a choice of two board widths 138mm and 189mm in a range of standard lengths up to 2400mm.

Solid T & G Flooring
Big River Timbers mills also manufactures Solid T & G flooring in a variety of Australian Hardwood timbers. All the timbers used come from sustainable timber sources. Our range of solid T & G flooring under goes a unique drying process that ensures our flooring is more stable for on site acclimatisation. Available in random length packs in 60×19, 80×19 and 130×19 our profiles include secret nail, top nail and multi nail.

Decking
To compliment our range of flooring products we produce decking in a range of species including Blackbutt, Spotted Gum, Tallowood and Iron Bark. Available in random lengths in 64mm and 86mm widths our decking sets the standard in Australian made decking products.

As well as our own manufactured products we have available Treated Pine, Yellow Balau and Merbau decking in various sizes and profiles.