A friend is having a front door made by a joiner. He is going to use Canadian Hemlock wood. He said pine was no good (quite), and that oak is inclined to split, warp and shatter.
Anybody have anything to add?
www.craftsman-style.info/finishing/079-hemlock.htm
"A wood which is quite extensively used for exterior construction. It is a coarse, rough, soft wood with open grain. When well seasoned it is light in weight and in color. It warps badly and splits. A pile of it in the hot sun will literally crawl all over the lot. The western hemlock is better as a rule than the eastern and middle-west product.
This wood is not as easy to paint well as some others. It absorbs the paint unevenly in spots and the paint upon it dries slowly. The paint must be well brushed into the wood to gain good anchorage. Hemlock is not used for interior trim lumber"
The door is in County Durham, about 1000 feet up, so gets some of the worst of English weather (awaits cries from Lancastrians).
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Hemlock wood? new