Cedar and Timber Garden Office Maintenance

One of our prospective customers eventually decided to have a local builder build a cedar clad garden office for them. I asked, “Are you treating the cedar or leaving it to weather?”

She answered: “Hi Iain, We’ve put 2 coats of Osmo UV protection oil on it hoping to preserve the lovely colour but we can already see that the colour is losing richness where there’s constant sun (not even been THAT constant this summer!!) We plan to re-oil it annually and hope for the best — we don’t want to become slaves to it!!”

Timber studios require lots of work to maintain, do not weather uniformly, and eventually look unpleasant. You won’t hear this from timber studio suppliers, and they may even have studios built inside so you would never see the weathering that your studio may suffer.

We stopped supplying timber garden studios in 2012 for this reason, and any supplier selling pressure treated timber will have the exact same problems — so why give yourself the hassle? You can have a truly zero maintenance QC garden studio for a very similar price that doesn’t pollute the planet with yet more chemicals and saves you a weekend doing the job. So many companies say that cedar is zero maintenance — it quite clearly isn’t.

If you want a truly zero maintenance exterior that will maintain its ‘just installed’ look for 25 years, then the QCB5 and the QC8 are the only design in the UK which fits the bill. No painting or staining required.