Here is a beautiful home on the lake in Nelson, BC,  built by Purcell Timber Frames, who also hail from Nelson. CBR Products worked closely with Purcell and Co. to come up with a custom colour, in our Broda Pro-Tek-Tor SLT (Siding Log & Timber), for the trim on this building. The colour was coined [...]

Our friends at Structurlam have been doing some big things. Like building 58 of these 107-foot long mammoth beams for a new building being constructed at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. This is no ordinary building. The original Kimbell Gallery, designed by Louis Kahn, has become an architectural Mecca, so expanding on [...]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year and we’re all ready for a nice break to spend time with friends and family. And we know you’ve all been waiting for this too. It’s been an awesome year for us at CBR with new products being developed, old products being tweeked to perform even better, [...]

‘Mill Glaze’ is something a lot of people seem to forget about, most likely because they can’t ‘see’ it, however it is more than likely sitting there right underneath your nose silently waiting to hinder your staining attempts. ‘Mill Glaze’ is a fine oily residue left over on your freshly milled timbers from the blades [...]

Has the Soggy Spring of 2011 got you putting off staining your deck, siding or fence, waiting for a string of sunny days that may never come? Well, get off the couch. BRODA® PRO-TEK-TOR™ water-based natural oil finish does not require wood to be totally dry for application, Unlike traditional solvent-based wood stains that require [...]

The pictures below are of a beautifully designed and built home in the Muskoka region of Ontario. We pre-stained the cedar shingles at our facility in two coats of Broda Pro-Tek-Tor SLT tinted to a custom colour we developed called “Muskoka Grey”.  The Fir beam-work and timbers etc were coated with two coats of Broda [...]