Hardwood Finish

Custom Clad® - Fine Hardwoods are Ideal for:
Staining or Painting to Match your Decor.

Selected Hardwoods -
The Most Attractive and Durable Material Available Today.

Hardwoods are a timeless product, more attractive and durable than the softwoods like pine or fir, which most other manufacturers use. In general, softwoods are less preferable material-weaker, less durable and with fewer grain characteristics than hardwoods.

That's why all Custom Clad® windows are made of select American hardwoods-Poplar, Oak and Cherry-or the world's finest Honduras Mahogany. To further prevent rot or decay, each Custom Clad® hardwood is sealed with a special wood preservative that retains all the natural beauty while admitting stain or paint. While Custom Clad® windows are generally shipped with unfinished wood interiors, ready for your stain or paint, any Custom Clad® window can be factory-stained to the color of your choice.

Stain Finishes Because no two pieces of hardwood are ever identical, subtle grain differences make each and every Custom Clad® window unique. And because no other material resembles hardwood, nothing else lends itself more attractively to stain finishes. Window interiors of vinyl, aluminum, imitation wood grain-even softwoods-pale in comparison to hardwood's character and elegance.

For Custom Clad® windows, we use Poplar as our standard hardwood interior because it is exceptionally able to accept a wide variety of stain and paint. In addition, we manufacture Custom Clad® windows of hardwoods such as Oak, Cherry and Mahogany, which are generally not painted, but can be stained for exceptional beauty, warmth and luxury.
Once Custom Clad® hardwood windows are stained and finished with polyurethane, they become virtually maintenance free for the life of the window.

	Paint Finishes Since it is important to accurately match your interior decor, hardwoods, because of their tight grains, are able to accept paint more readily than pine or other softwoods. All Custom Clad® hardwood windows are ready to finish in the color of your choice, whether it be oil or latex paint.

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