It is harder to find good quality nesting plank nowadays. The good grade Meranti woods are scarce and if available they are from young trees. Woods from young trees are not durable. Their color are different from those that are old.
I prefer those that are in brownish color, not red. Most nesting planks available in the market are of Red, light red or pinkish and they are easily available in most sawmills and even hardware shops. I don’t use them. When it comes to nesting planks I never compromise. Quality & durability is priority because that is the place where the White Gold grows.
These are treated woods. Treated woods won’t have fungus problems. If you want fungus free planks in your Bh for many years to come these are the woods you should use. Look at the surface they are all sand downed. There are no wood eyes. 
Workers unloading the high grade Meranti planks for a Bh. It comes in different length. I have been waiting for them for quite a while. Bear in mind “Good Planks are not easily available”. If you could find them everywhere chances are……they are from the low grade categories
Smooth finished with groves for easy perching of birds. There’re still many who believe that Nesting Planks shouldn’t be sand down and it should be as rough as possible for easy perching and birds love them. These are all myths. In Those days Sawmills don’t have the equipments to grove the planks therefore many resorted to using rough and unsmooth planks. With today’s technology planks grooving are available in most sawmills and these groves are for the purpose of easy perching.
Worker Carefully unload the planks, as not to damage them. It is not the price that matters. It is the availability. Though to many these planks look the same compared to those common planks in the market, the only differences you could tell by your naked eye after 1 year period in the Bh. The good ones would last many years, free from fungus. The common ones within 1 year of high Rh would have fungus problem.Don’t think that Nesting Planks is not important. Know your Planks, because that is the place where the White Gold grows.
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