Material
The wood that gets better the longer you own it.
We build in sapele — a close relative of mahogany that behaves beautifully in a Mediterranean climate and looks better every year it spends in the sun.
Colour
A warmth you cannot paint on.
Sapele starts a golden reddish brown and deepens, over the years, into something closer to old mahogany. The grain runs in alternating directions, which is what produces that soft ribbon shimmer across a sash when the light moves round the house.
It is the reason people who see it oiled rarely want it painted. But if you do want colour, it takes a finish beautifully — any RAL or NCS shade, matt or satin, inside and out, and the two do not have to match.
Climate
Made for heat, sun and salt air.
Spain asks a lot of joinery. On the coast it is the sun, the humidity and the salt on the wind. Inland it is the swing between a forty-degree afternoon and a cold night, which is what moves wood and opens joints. Sapele takes both in its stride.
It is dense and steady, so a tall door leaf stays flat and a window keeps closing sweetly through the seasons. It has good natural resistance to damp, rot and insects. And because the trees grow tall and straight, we can cut long clean lengths — which means big sliding panels and full-height doors without a joint where you would rather not see one.
The hardware is chosen for the same reason. Fittings that shrug off salt, on a wood that shrugs off sun.
Longevity
Maintainable, not maintenance-free.
We are careful about that distinction. Maintenance-free usually means unrepairable — when something fails, the whole unit goes in a skip. Our products are made to be looked after and, if they are ever damaged, repaired.
In practice that means an oil or a light refresh every few years on the exposed side, and very little else. If you would rather not think about it at all, we clad the weather face in powder-coated aluminium and leave the wood on the inside where you can see and touch it.
A window looked after this way outlives the person who chose it. That is rather the point.
Responsibility
We know where our wood comes from.
Tropical hardwood carries an obligation and we take it seriously. We work with traceable material and documented supply chains, and we would rather turn down an order than lose track of where the wood was cut.
The same goes for what we put on it. Water-based paints and environmentally certified sealants, chosen to be kind to the people applying them as well as to the house they end up on.
If you want the paperwork behind any of this, ask. We would be glad to show you.
Come and hold a sample.
Wood is hard to judge from a screen. We keep samples at the office in San Pedro Alcántara and you are welcome to come and see the difference between oiled and painted in daylight. If you are further away, we will post them to you.
Technical documentation — U-values, frame depths, performance declarations and material certificates — is available on request for every product.