I'm building a for- dry wood store in the morning from recycled timber to supply a small number of local Defra certed.

Most of the provincial teak business now involves recycled timber from old houses.

A restrained palette of materials has been used including off form concrete, recycled timber, steel and glazing.

The trade in recycled timber is not well-established everywhere, so a reliable supply of usable wood may be hard to come by for builders.

Other useful power tools are a belt sander, especially if using recycled timber or for finishing rough sawn timber.

A large percentage of Nash Timbers' products are recycled timber.

Nash Timbers mainly source their recycled timber from old bridges and wharves.

"We've gotten away from logs and we're using a lot of recycled timber," he said.

This sort of wood is seldom available new but can be sourced from merchants dealing in recycled timber.

The louvres are made from untreated recycled timber and are moved by a computer-controlled hydraulic system.